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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37153	The history of the campagne in the Spanish Netherlands, Anno Dom. 1694 with the journal of the siege of Huy / by Edward D'Auvergne ...	D'Auvergne, Edward, 1660-1737.	1694 (1694)	Wing D298; ESTC R16405	73,013	118

taken by the French King in 1667 in that irruption he made in Flanders after the death of Philip the Fourth 'T was left to the French King by the Treaty of Aix la Chapelle and remain'd in their hands till the Peace of Nimeguen when it was given up again to the King of Spain and as all Spanish Towns are very much improved by coming into French hands so this place got a signal advantage by it It was before of a very irregular figure as appears by the Gates before the French had it which are left standing to this day and its chief Strength consisted in the Morass made by the Dender and Cambron River on the one side of it the other was fortified with weak Bastions of Earth-work commanded by the neighbouring ground But as soon as the French had it yielded to them by the Treaty of Aix la Chapelle Mounsieur de Vauban was ordered to use his Skill about it He new Model'd the Circuit of the place and brought it almost to the figure of a regular Heptagone it has one side longer than the rest upon which is the Port of Tournay which occasions an almost flat Bastion else all the rest of the Courtines and Works are near equal the Circuit of the Town and all the Works of it are faced with Free Stone the Fosse all about the place is fortified with Tenailles or Horn-work in it according to Monsieur de Vaubans Method of Fortification and faced with Free Stone and the River Dender joyned by the other passing through the Town keeps the Fosse always full of Water which they can stop in the Town by Sluices or let it out again in Frosty-weather at which time such a Fosse would otherwise be dangerous and because the grouud about the Town from the Port of Mons to that of Brussels is high and commands the place every Bastion has a good Cavalier raised upon it to remedy this inconveniency The French had made a Horn-work by the Port of Mons and another by the Port of Tournay but as we marched through this place they were pulling it down to make it a double Fosse and covered way between these two places with Redoubts in the Angles Saillants or Points jetting out which they found more convenient and defensible The place has now three very stately Gates that of Mons that of Tournay and that of Brussels done according to Modern Architecture with an Inscription above each of them in Letters of Gold in Latin French and Dutch upon the several Gates upon that of Mons 't is in Latin importing that the King of France took the place in the Expedition he made in Flanders in 1667 to assert the right of his Queen Mary Theresa and that he was content to establish the limits of his Empire here when Fortune promised him the Conquest of all Flanders All the other States of Christendom are so much under-valued in this piece of Flattery that it may very well be incerted here for the satisfaction of England in particular as I have translated it The Inscription upon Mons-Port at Aeth LOUIS the XIV King of France and Navarre finding nothing that could Resist His Armes in the Expedition He made for the Legal Pretensions of Mary Theresa His Wife was content to give Bounds to Himself to a Fortune that promised Him in a short time the Conquest of all Flanders Thus it is that this Prince truly Great has known how to Reconcile two Vertues so much opposed to one another as the Love of Glory and Moderation and to let the World see that in the very height of His Victories He desired Peace Being the onely One that could find the Art of Obliging all Europe even His Enemies by extending the Bounds of His Empire And that the Town of Aeth may be an Everlasting Monument of so many Glorious Actions He has been willing after He has had it Fortified that it should serve for a Limit and a Bulwark to his Empire in the Year 1670. Within each of the Gates is a very fine Piazza with the Corps de Garde at one end and the Officers of the Guards-Room and other Apartments at the other The Pillars of the Piazza support a very fine Store house built of Free Stone with a good Frontispiece that over looks the Gate upon the Chemin des rondes or way that goes round the Rampart it has an Italian Roof with Crowns of Flower-de-luces or Dolphins gilt upon it all the Sentry-boxes are built very pretty with Free Stone with like Crowns of Flower-de-luces and Dolphins gilt upon them There is a fine Arcade in the Market over the Conduit with the French Kings-Armes upon it supported by two Angels and adorned with Trophies In short as to its Fortifications 't is a noble place the Magnificence of the French King appears in it and deserves a better description than I can give it which has made me wander from the account I was giving of the Armies march by and through the Town That Evening we incamped by Leuse the place where the Mareschal de Luxemburgh fell upon Prince Waldecks Rear-guard with the Cavalry of the Houshold in 1691 our Left was at Lignes upon the Dender that runs from Leuse by Lignes and Irchonwetz to Aeth our Right made an elbow from the Center where we had Leuse upon our Front to Harquignies towards Tournay where the Elector of Bavaria had his Quarters and the King took his at Grames That same Evening Lieutenant-General Tettan Major-General L. Meleniere and two Brigadiers with a Detachment of 60 Men per Battalion was commanded to the Scheld to post himself over against the Village of Hanterive in order to pass the River We heard firing at Tournay for the arrival of the Mareschal de Villeroy who as we said before had been detach'd from the Camp at Ausart letong with a good Body of Horse and all the Dragoons of the Army to pass the Sambre at Maubeuge and the Scheld at Conde and so to make all possible diligence to joyn the Marquiss De la Valette who upon our march towards Flanders was ordered to leave Courtray and to post himself at Pont de Espieres where the French Line of which we have given a sufficient account in our last Years History does terminate it self upon the Scheld The Mareschal de Villeroy at his passing through the Town of Tournay found Monsieur de l' Arteloire ready with a Train of Artillery to go down the Scheld under his Convoy to Pont de Espieres When he had joyned the Marquiss de la Vallette they left Pont de Espieres and marched down the Scheld about a League lower and posted themselves at Hanterive where they arrived on the other side of the Scheld much about the same time that Lieutenant-General Tettan was got by Escanaffe on this betimes in the Morning We attempted to lay a Bridge of Boats upon the River but the French opposed it with their small Shot and