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A34352	Count Taaffe's letters from the imperial camp to his brother the Earl of Carlingford here in London giving an account of the most considerable actions, both before, and at, the raising of the siege at Vienna, together with several remarkable passages afterward, in the victorious campagne against the Turks in Hungary : with an addition of two other letters from a young English nobleman, a voluntier in the imperial army.	Carlingford, Francis Taaffe, Earl of, 1639-1704.	1684 (1684)	Wing C592; ESTC R20027	16,653	38

Prince Aremberg's Cornet and Eighty Cavaliers were kill'd upon the place The Duke of Lorrain at length having with much difficulty drawn up the rest of the Horse hastned himself to us where finding the foremost Squadrons yet under a panick Fear alighted from his Horse at the Head of his Men to let them see there was no danger this Example gave fresh Courage to our Troops and the Dust being somewhat abated we discovered that all this Disorder was only occasion'd by Six Thousand Turks and Tartars We made up then to them his Highness being in the Head of us but they would not endure the very sight of our Troops and 't was in vain to follow them with our heavy German Horse since our Light Horse was wanting the Enemy flying with an incredible Swiftness But we learn'd from this that which we since found that these Six Thousand Horse were only to cover the gross of their Army with the which they thinking it not so much for their purpose to Attacque Raab as suppos'd was first design'd were marching directly to Vienna You will perhaps think it very strange that we should be no better inform'd of the Design and Marches of the Enemy but not so much when you hear that all Hungary was against us and not so much as a Peasant but for Teckeley And as for the Party that we sent out to scout on the Plains between Raab and Vienna there could not a Man of them ha've escaped had they been discovered such is the Number and Swiftness of the Enemy To conclude my Lord we are in a very desperate Condition All Hungary is against us the Court removed to Passaw All Austria round Vienna from Newstat and St. Hippolitt in flames and we not able to hinder it having now only a Body of Ten Thousand Horse at most left with the Duke of Lorrain Vienna has been besieged these ten Days and had not his Highness out of his great Prudence and Conduct clapt in Ten or Eleven Thousand Men into the Town in that nick of Time and the which was all the Foot he had in his Army by this time the Place had certainly been lost Bavaria is sending us Ten Thousand brave but unexperienced Souldiers and we shall be reinforced with Ten Thousand more from the Emperor The King of Poland is obliged by our Treaty to march himself in Person at the Head of his Army to the Relief of Vienna and the least Delay is lookt upon as most dangerous Saxony Franconia and Brandenburgh promise us their Troops God grant they may all come in time If Vienna should be taken I cannot see the end of our miseries but I hope God will not forsake his Cause nor the House of Austria that has been ever so devoted to him From the Camp at Angrem Aug. 17. 1683. For the Earl of Carlinford at London I Received yours of the Seventeenth of July from London and render God a thousand Thanks for saving our Royal Master the King and the Duke from that execrable Design of those wicked Assassines Good God! What Madness is this Let us view all Europe and see if we can find any Subjects so well treated or who do enjoy so blessed a Peace as those of England Or if there be any Nations in the World that do not envy the Happiness of ours I have so great a Detestation for those Infamous Villains that I shall henceforth look upon Turks and Tartars as the most honest Men. You have by this time doubtless received the Account I sent you of our Campagne from Passaw The Lord Lansdowne delivered it to the Spanish Ambassadour who promised to send it in his Pacquet to Don Petro de Ronquillio into England The Duke of Lorrain has since had the good Fortune with Fourteen Thousand Horse to give a Defeat to Tcckeley's Army consisting of Twenty Thousand Hungarians and Six Thousand Turks near Presburgh where he was going to possess himself of the Town and to be Crowned King of Hungary We marcht up towards them by a Defile i. e. Narrow Passage which they had lined with Dragoons and though the Enemy were drawn up in good Order they had not the Courage to make any opposition Our Avaunt Guard was scarcely past when a Panick Fear so seized those Rebels that they presently fled leaving the Turks to shift for themselves who for a time retreated orderly but the Poles seconded by some Regiments of our Curiasiers fell so furiously upon them that at last they were routed leaving a Thousand of their Men dead behind them with Twelve Hundred Wagons of Baggage whereof our Men had the plunder the Rebels Cavalry saving themselves by the Swiftness of their Horses and the few Foot they had in Woods and Mountains which were inaccessible to our Horse this blow was such a Terror to Teckeley that we saw him no more Vienna has now been five weeks besieged and although the Enemy took their Post the First day at the Foot of the Glassis under protection of the Suburbs which we neglected to demolish they have spent four weeks in only gaining one Point of the Counterscarp betwixt the Bastion of the Pallace and that of Lebell Five days ago they sprung a Mine under the Point of the Ravelin betwixt the said two Bastions where they gave a furious Assault in hopes to have made a Lodgment of it but they were repuls'd with great Loss and we have it from the Prisoners themselves as well as Spies we have in their Camp that they have already lost above Twelve Thousand Janizaries The Bavarian Succours of Nine Thousand Men are already arrived at the Bridge of Crembs those of Franconia being Eight Thousand will be here to Morrow The Elector of Saxony with Ten Thousand Men more is upon his March but can hardly be with us before the end of the Month. The King of Poland is also coming with Three or Four and Twenty Thousand Men and we are now about Three and Twenty Thousand Imperialists with which Troops we are resolved towards the end of this Month to succour Vienna or dye in the Attempt but if the King of Poland delay coming and we find the Town much press'd we shall endeavour the Relief of it without him they assure us that the Emperor intends to be with us in Person and I heartily wish it for his greater Glory We think to pass the Danube at Crembs a little Town about Ten Leagues up the River from Vienna the Country thereabouts is very Mountainous and Woody till you come within a little League of the place We shall have a Body of Thirty Thousand Foot if the Enemy come to meet us they must then forsake some of their Posts if they do not we shall have them betwixt us and the Town and the Scituation thereof is such that their Horse will be of little use to them in which consists their greatest Force My Lord Lansdowne is in great esteem with his Highness the Duke of Lorraine and

being enrag'd at this Disgrace discharged his Fury upon the Officers of his Army having strangled the Visier of Buda a Man of Eighty years of Age and as he was perhaps the most able Person of the Ottoman Empire so would he have prov'd the more dangerous Enemy to him with four other Bassa's and Four or Five Hundred other Officers upon pretence that they did not do their parts and disobeyed his Orders The Count Budiani an Hungarian Lord who after our Retreat at Raab revolted with a considerable Party of his Country-men to the Rebel Teckeley to give the Emperor a convincing Proof of his sincere Repentance cut in pieces two thousand Auxiliary Turks that the Grand Visier had sent to reinforce him and tho the advantage we got by his Treason was very great yet we could not but abhor the Traitor On the Fifth instant the Polish Army with our Cavalry past the Danube at Gomorra leaving our foot one days march behind but the Duke of Loraine having resolved to attack Barrakan was forc'd to stay some time for the Foot because those of Bavaria were for some unhappy Reasons six days march from us The King being told that there were not above Five Thousand Turks in Barrakan made his Troops hastily advance towards it without once acquainting his Highness with the Design and thinking himself sure and that his very Avaunt Guard would have carried it hè did not so much as march his Troops in Battalia but his Ambition and the great contempt he had of the Enemy upon the Success of Vienna cost him dear instead of the Five Thousand Men which he was told of he found in a bottom under the very Cannon of Barrakan a Body of Twelve Thousand who instantly attackt the Avaunt Guard of the Poles with such a Fury that though they behaved themselves bravely they were at last forc'd into their main Body and that in such confusion that the whole Army which had not then time to draw up into Battaile seized with a panick Fear had been entirely routed had not the Duke of Loraine who by this time heard of the Kings departure made his Troops hastily follow and so kept them from farther disorder My Brigade had this day the Avaunt Guard and his Highness ordering me to make haste tho we had a Defile to pass about half an hours march from the Enemy yet our Troops carryed on with a desire to redress the loss and repair the affront received by their Allies past it with all chearfulness and so in a very little time we drew up in a Line of Fifteen Squadrons The Arrival thus of our Troops put soon a stop to the Carriere of the TURKS and gave us an Opportunity thereby of passing the rest of our Men and to the Poles of knowing each other The Enemy thus contenting themselves with the advantage they had gotten over the Poles retired in good order into the bottom where they were first and we thought it not then safe to follow them farther with the Poles who were as it were stund with the blow they had received and under an apprehension that the Grand Visier's whole Army was there They thereupon encamp'd themselves about an hours distance from Barrakan near the Danube and the King was then of opinion to stay for the coming up of the Foot before they should attempt any thing farther There were about One Thousand Poles kill'd most of them Dragoons who having alighted from their Horses in a Plain were abandoned by the Horse and so cut in pieces by the Enemy the King ventur'd as far as any Man with his usual undaunted Courage and had it not been for a German Cavalier that serv'd him he had then certainly been either kill'd or taken Prisoner and his Majesty in Requital made him a Colonel The next day the Mareschal Comte de Staremberg who so bravely defended Vienna came with Eight Thousand Foot to us The Poles were so disheartened by their wounds which were yet bleeding and apprehending that the Grand Visier with the rest of his Army might be near at hand that they did endeavour to divert the King from any farther vigorous Action at that time but the Duke of Loraine did so strongly press the contrary that they were at last brought to it We march'd in Battalia the ninth instant towards the Enemy his Highness giving the Poles their choice where to post themselves but instead of the right wing which till then they always affected they divided themselves on both the Wings and on our Reserve The Enemy seeing us thus march towards them came out of their bottom ranging themselves in Battaile and by the Confession of those Prisoners that make them the most the Turks did not exceed Sixteen Thousand Men and certainly there never was committed a greater nor worse supported rashness but yet they stood us with that boldness at first that the whole Grand Visier's Army could not have done more and not being able to front our whole Line they drew up to the Right and without once attempting to attack the German Squadrons fell with an incredible Fury on those Poles they found on our Left hoping to find as cheap a business of 't as they had done the day before But the Great General of Poland Iablonouski receiv'd them so briskly that it stopt their Fury and at the same time we charging them with our first Line of Curiasseers put them totally into disorder The Defeat of those was immediately followed with a general Rout of all their Troops and the shock of the first Line of our said Left Wing was so vigorous and succesful that neither my Lord Lansdowne to whom I had given the Command of a Squadron in my Regiment nor I my self who commanded the Second Line of the Wing that was attacked had either of us occasion to fire a Pistol His Highness let loose the first Line of Curiasseers the Croats and some Poles to the pursuit of those that fled whom we chased with the points of our Swords in their backs to the very Fort of Barrakan making a most terrible Slaughter of them the Crowd of those that thought to save themselves by the Bridge was so great that the Bridge broak under them and there were abundance of them who threw themselves into the Danube rather than they would stand the Fury of our Men and the Revenge of the Poles It is most certain that with those who were slain and those who were drown'd the better half of their Number perished and one shall seldome find in a pitch'd Battle a greater loss of Men these were the very flower of the Turkish Army commanded by the new Visier of Buda Ali Bassa of Aleppo and Six other Bassa's the Visier of Buda was kill'd the Bassa's of Aleppo and Silestria are taken Prisoners and a third Bassa was drown'd We have also saved about six hundred Prisoners from the Fury of the Poles and there are certainly taken above three thousand Horses and at

and deserves a Reward for the News he carries in the which he bore a very particular Part but less than he hoped through the Cowardise of the Enemy and I beg he may receive some Mark of your Favour I have heretofore told you that the King of Poland is le plus honeste homme of his Kingdom and I must now tell you again that there are few Kings now in the World who deserve better to be so than himself and that his Competitor our Duke of Loraine hath performed all the Parts of a great Captain and excellent Soldier and hath withal so managed Matters and found the way in this Conjunction of our Troops to accommodate so many Majesties and Electoral Highnesses and Soveraign Princes together that there hath not been the least dispute or difference arisen amongst them I take the Freedom to send you some of our Plunder from the Turks being a very small present We have taken all the Enemies Tents in general and you will admire the moderation of our Troops who amidst so great a booty pursu'd the Infidels from Camp to Camp neither Officer nor Souldier once offering to touch any thing till they had first made sure of the Victory I cannot yet learn the number of the Canon taken nor how many were kill'd on the right Wing against whom the King of Poland fought in Person Monsieur Preudhomme will tell you the rest 'T was night before we got hither which hindred us from pursuing them farther but to morrow early we shall be at their heeles I am for ever Yours c. From the Camp near Presburg Septemb. 22. 1683. For the Earl of Carlingford at London I Did my self the Honour my Lord to give you a rough Draught of the Action of Vienna the very same night that it happen'd by an Officer of the Marquiss of Grana's whom he sent Express from Flanders to bring him that great News and I must add that never Victory of so great Importance cost so little blood There were no Officers kill'd on our side but the Brother of the Prince de Crouy the Count de Trantmanstorf Major the Count de Batzi Captain of Dragoons and some people of quality amongst the Poles who stood the shock of a very rude Encounter with a Transcendent Bravery If the Grand Visier had been Master of his Trade we could never have past from the Hills of Kalemberg to Vienna without a bloody and desperate Engagement and upon very disadvantageous Terms we having three terrible Defiles to pass from the Mountains to the City But God did so infatuate them that they let our Foot and Dragoons quietly post themselves in such manner as to secure our Cavalry who passing but one and two at a time posted themselves under their very Noses Their Retreat was so hasty that they left us all their Artillery in general and the Account being made they are found what in their Approaches and Camp to amount to above One hundred and Twenty Pieces of Canon with a prodigious quantity of Provisions both of Ammunition and Victuals and all their Camp without giving themselves so much Time as to take down a Tent. The Field was covered every where with all sorts of rich booty Our German Troops marching through the middle of all this Spoyl and not a Soldier either Foot or Horse went one Step out of his Rank to pillage and we value the glory of this Continence and Exactness of military Discipline more than all the Booty of the Poles which was incredible All the Grand Visier's Treasure fell to their share the King confesseth he hath gotten great Riches and the Equipage of the Grand Visier's alone which fell to his Lot is valued at One Hundred Thousand Crowns The Poles have also taken the Great Standard of Mahomett and the Horse Tails which the Sultan himself gave the Grand Visier on this great Expedition Some of our Cavalry next day in rummaging their Tents found betwixt Five and Six Thousand Duckats in ready Money and amongst other things the Imperial Resident who following the Army was forgot behind their Camp who assured us that since the beginning of this Siege their Army was lessened Seventy Thousand Men and the Turkish Prisoners avow that of Forty Thousand Janizaries which came before the place there are not gone off Eighteen Thousand If night had not come on us at the very Suburbs of Vienna we had made it an entire Victory having already gain'd the Defiles and the Enemy was in an extream Confusion and had we but two hours more of Day-light we should have driven them to the little River of Shwechet where we might have had them at our Mercy but they past it in the night and though the Duke of Loraine would have next Morning pursued them at Break of Day yet the King of Poland thought it not fit because his Horse had not drank in Eight and Forty hours before But those who are given to detract say that the Polish Troops with whom the King is sometimes obliged to comply had demanded one day more to make an end of pillaging the Turkish Camp We hope before the end of this Campagne to take some Place on the Frontier Teckeley applys himself to the King of Poland for his Mediation The Grand Visier enrag'd at this shameful loss has since caused the Heads of the Visier of Buda of two Bassa's and Five hundred Officers to be cut off this will be a ready way to make an end of his Army if he kill thus on one side and we on the other Adieu In fine it was high time to succour Vienna there being two considerable Breaches in both the Bastions and half of the Curtain undermin'd the Garrison which consisted of Twelve Thousand Men reduced to Four Thousand and certainly never any Garrison behav'd it self better I am endeavouring to get a Draught of the Place and the Attacks to present to the King and his Royal Highness and here 's an Engineer upon the Place has promised to do it very well My Lord Lansdowne will have the Honour to see the closing of this Campagne as thinking it not sufficient to have bore his Part in the Relief of Vienna and defeating the Turk It were to be wisht the Elector of Saxe had taken the same consideration along with him but he quitted the Army the very day after the Succour of Vienna finishing his Campagne with the Glory of Relieving the Town The Elector of Bavaria with his Troops as well as those of Franconia march with us still being resolved to see the end of this Campagne From the Camp near Barrakan over against Gran Octob. 10. 1683. For the Earl of Carlingford at London I Sent you a short Account of the Relieving of Vienna and of the shameful flight of the Enemy from before it of which that advantage was not made that might otherwise have been by reason of the backwardness of the Poles to follow the pursuit next day But the Grand Visier