yet you shall find most of the Brigades by Name that the Author of that Relation makes mention of in this List This was the numerous Army which the French King came to Head in Person in Flanders strong enough to have better answer'd the Designs of his Voyage considering how inferiour we were to them in Number if it had not been for the Care His Majesty and the Elector took to thwart his ambitious Designs by their prudent ordering of Business upon the Maes and in our little Army a handful of Men I may say in comparison of our Enemies Forces which the Reader may compare by the List of our own Army when at Park-Camp which we shall hereafter insert The King made such Diligence to possess himself of Park-Camp by which he cover'd equally Brussels Louvain and Malines that He entirely broke the French King's Designs upon Brabant unless the Enemy had ventur'd to force us in our strong Camp at Park which indeed would have been a deciding of the Business and worth the undertaking of so great a Monarch as the French King's considering the prodigious Army he had and that success in such an Attempt promis'd him no less than all the great and rich Towns in Brabant as Brussels Louvain Antwerp and Malines and consequently the remainder of the Spanish Netherlands which wou'd have been a more effectual way of bringing the Allies to a Peace than sending a Detachment in Germany under the Dauphin But the French King did not think it fit to hazard either his Person or his Army at that time 'T was on the 26th of May that His Majesty decamp'd from Degham to possess himself of this strong Post which bauk'd the designs of our numerous Enemies and whereas His Majesty generally made two Marches from Degham to Parck the first to Bethlehem yet upon this pressing occasion the Army march'd it in one day which prov'd so hot Weather that several Soldiers fell down dead under their Arms. Our Right at this Camp was at Havre a House belonging to the Duke of Arschot where the Elector took his Quarter cover'd by the River Dyle Louvain and the little Brook that runs from the Bois de Merdal to Parck-Abbey and so to Louvain remain'd in our Rear Our Left was cover'd by the strong Defiles of the Bois de Merdal which from thence cover'd the Front of our Army to the River Dyle making with our Left Wing an acute Angle There remained between the Bois de Merdal and the River Dyle a little space of open ground which cou'd give Passage to the Enemy in our Camp but this being commanded by the heights of Birbeck His Majesty caus'd afterwards several Battalions to Incamp there as we shall hereafter tell you which were sustained by a perpendicular Line of Horse and Dragoons between this place and the Center of our Left Wing The Body under the Duke of Wirtemberg and Lieutenant General Talmash join'd us in this March and Incamp'd in the Line We were likewise join'd with the Body of Horse under my Lord of Athlone who had advanc'd as far as Tillemont in order to joyn us upon this March He encamp'd a part in the Rear of our Left Wing of Horse to make the Body of Reserve so that our Army consisted then of the Forces following A List of the Confederates ARMY at Parck-Camp Note That Count d' Egmont General of the Spanish Horse has not serv'd at all this Campagne by reason of Sickness of which he dy'd at Brussels last September for which reason he is omitted in the List of the General Officers Right Wing of HORSE Elector of BAVARIA General Officers under him were The Marquis de Bedmar Mestre de Camp or Colonel General of the Spanish Horse Lieutenant Generals The Electoral Prince of Hanouer Du Puy Count d' Arco Lieutenant General of the Bavarian Cuirassiers Baron d' Offener Lieutenant General of the Hanouer Horse Du Mont Lieutenant General of the Hanouer Foot Major Generals Prince Charles of Brandenbourg Counts de Brouay de Thian de Soye Bouche Oorh First Line Regim Squad Spanish Valençar 2 Drag Fourna 2 Guards of Bavaria 2 Guards of Egmont 1 Guards of Vaudemont 1 Guards du Puy 1 Brancaccio 1 Chimay 1 Hartman 1 Bavar Arco 2 Cuir Weickel 2 Hanou. Bulau 3 Drag  Hanou. Offner 3 Horse  Hanou. Du Mont 1 Foot St. Paul 1 Guards 1 Montigny 2 Hanou. Prince Elector  Horse de Hanouer 1 Gua. d'Hanouer 1  Total Horse 26  Foot 3 Bat. Second Line Regim Squad Prince of Steenhuy's Dra. 2 Vaudemont 1 Du Puy 1 Moncade 1 Bettencourt 1 Don Augustino 1 Ximene 1 Spinosa 1 Prince Char. of Lorrain 1 Pignatelli 1 Bavar Arco 2 Cuir Weickel 2 Hanou. Breitenbachk 2 Horse Tarkenheel 2 Hanou. Cordon 1 Foot Koningsmark 1 Breemer 1 Hanou. Oorh 2 Horse Voght 2  Total Horse 23  Foot 3 Bat. Body of FOOT His Majesty of GREAT-BRITTAIN General Officers under Him Prince Cassimir of Nassau Velt Mareschal General of Foot Count Solmes General of Foot Lieutenant Generals Duke of Wirtemburg Talmash Prince of Birkenfeldt Major Generals Count Nassau Sir Henry Bellasis Wymbergh Noyelles Ellembergh Brigadiers of the King 's own Forces Churchil Ramsey Earl Count d' Alfeldt of the Danes Note That where the Line is stop'd by a stroke thus so far reaches the Body of Foot in the King's Pay First Line Battal English Guards 1 Reg. 1 English Guards 2 Reg. 1 Dutch Guards 1 Scots Guards 1 Royal Regiment 1 Pr. George or Churchil 1 Fuziliers or Fitzpatrick 1 Collingwood 1 Stanley 1 Earle 1 Scotch Fuzil or Offerrel 1 Mackay 1 Monroe 1 Second Line Battal English Guards 1 Reg. 1 Dutch Guards 1 Scotch Guards 1 Royal Regiment 1 Selwyn 1 The Queens or Trelawney 1 Bathe 1 Tidcomb 1 Graham 1 Lauder 1 Leven 1 Argyle 1 Queen of Denmark 1 First Line Battal Danish Guards 1 Prince Frederick 1 Prince George 1 Jutland 1 Nassaw 1 Oork lately Greben 1 Suerin 1 Rhingrave 1 Noyelles 1 Wymberg 1 Tersay 1 Nassaw Friesland 2 Total 26 Second Line Battal Prince Christian 1 Zeeland 1 Finland 1 Packmoer 1 Buwer 1 Swerin 1 Anhalt 1 Aylica 1 L' Ecluse 1 Bernstorf 1 Fagel 1 La Motte 1 Nassau Groningue 1 Total 26 Left Wing of HORSE Prince of NASSAU SARBRUCK Velt-Mareschal General of Horse Lieutenant Generals Earl of Portland Auverquerque Opdam Scravenmore Major Generals Lord Galloway Duke of Ormond Earl of Scarborough my Lord Colchester La Forrest Zuylestein Brigadiers of the King's Forces Boncourt Letang Lumley First Line Squad Lipzel 2 Warfusé 2 Saxe-Goth◠2 Darmstadt 2 Ryswick 2 Athlone 2 Queens or Lumley 3 Langston 2 Wyndhant 2 Leinster 2 Galloway 3 Berkley 2 Life-Gu Auverquerque 1 Life-Gu Colchester 1 Life-Gu Scarborough 1 Hesse Marowitz Dutch 3 3 Dra. 3 3 Fitzharding Eppinger Total 41 Second Line Squad Nassau Friesland 3 Brendick 2 Dompré 2 Welfembuttel 2 Lippe Holl. 2 Opdam 2 Hombourg 2 Monpoüillan 2 Zuylestein 2
totally routed and dispers'd to do us any harm either in Liege or Brabant yet because they would make some noise after it the Mareschal de Luxembourg detach'd Lieutenant-General Rosen with 10000 Horse to go and make Incursions in the Mayerie of Bois le duc and raise Contributions upon the States Country on this side of the Meuse but the King took care he should not go so far Upon the first notice he detached my Lord of Athlone with about 7000 Horse to march that way Baron Lubeck who commanded the Neubourg Troops between the Rhine and the Meuse had orders to advance between Aix la Chappelle and Maestricht to be ready to pass that River and joyn the Earl of Athlone upon which Lieutenant-General Rosen retreated to the Army after he had rais'd Contributions only in the County of Horne and some neighbouring Villages of the Mayerie of Bois le duc And then the Earl of Athlone had orders to come back to our Army Prince Wirtemberg remained still in his Camp at Alost expecting the King's Orders to march which he received the 31th in the Night and the next day he march'd towards the Canal and Incamp'd between Mertom and Mellem The day following August the 2d both Armies marched the King pass'd the Canal with his at Vilvorde and so we joyned at VVemmel where the King took his Quarter Our Right reach'd beyond Grimberg and our Left at Lacker The Elector with the Spanish Troops marched from Scarbeck passed the Canal at Lacker and Incamp'd upon our Left at the Abby of Dilleghem And now our Army after this junction was stronger by many Battalions than it had been all this Campagne August Myn Heer Heynsius Pensionary of Holland and Deputy from the States-General of the United Provinces came to this Camp to wait upon the King and to congratulate his safe Deliverance from those many and great Dangers to which he expos'd his Sacred Person for our common safety He brought along with him Bills for two Millions of Guilders which the States-General sent to his Majesty as a Token of the intire Satisfaction and Confidence they had in him He had orders likewise to assure the King that they were ready to venture the very last Stake for the defence of their Liberties under his Majesty's Conduct and that they would unanimously concur to increase their Forces both by Land and Sea so as to be able to check for the future the exorbitant Power of our Enemies And this was the States resolution when we thought our selves that our Affairs were in a far worse posture than we found them afterwards for which generous Resolution they can never be too much commended and for the great Respect and Affection they have express'd in this occasion to his Majesty Major-General Zuylestein who had been Prisoner at Namur since the last Action came likewise to this Camp and I cannot omit the great Compliment and Civility he receiv'd from the Mareschal de Luxembourg who when Zuylestein took his leave of him to come to our Camp express'd the greatest Respect for the Person of our Monarch and we may say that the King 's Heroick Valour was so signally conspicuous that day that he Conquer'd the very hearts and affections of his Enemies who unanimously proclaimed his Praise and Commendation 'T was Luxembourg's expression to Zuylestein That their two Masters deserv'd to share the World between them On the 5th the King review'd the Army which drew out of the Camp upon two Lines and as it would have been too much work for one day to have view'd the Regiments by single Companies as the King rid by the Commissaries took only an Account of the Number and Depth of the Files in each Regiment and the whole Army appear'd in a very good condition and stronger than it had hitherto been this Campagne The same day three Battalions were detach'd to Charleroy for the reinforcement of that Garison under the command of the Marquis de Castillo General of the Spanish Ordnance who was sent to command the Garison there Colonel Potbus's Regiment of Suedes in the King of Spain's Service was one he was pleas'd to grumble and to express his disgust for this command up and down Brussels for which the Elector of Bavaria order'd him to be put in Arrest there On the 7th the Army marched from VVemmel to Nostre dame de Halle Our Left reached considerably beyond Tubise and our Right beyond Halle so that we seem'd to take up more Ground this Year than we did the last before the Action at Steenkirk The King took his Quarter at the same place where he had it last Year viz. at Lembeck a House belonging to the Prince of Steenhuys The Mareschal de Luxembourg who hitherto had Incamp'd quietly at Warem since the Fight at Landen began to move on the 5th and march'd that day to Bonef upon the Mehaigne and the next day to Sombref where he halted the 7th The 8th he marched on to Nivelle and had his Right at Bois Seigneur Isaac and tho' 't was now a more favourable Season to have formed the Siege of Charleroy yet Luxembourg's Army had been so disorder'd at Landen that tho' they had then double our Army yet now Luxembourg was not in a condition to Besiege Charleroy till he had been reinforced considerably with the Troops that Guarded the Coasts of Normandy and Brittany who were order'd forthwith towards this Country and with the Body the Marquis de la Valette commanded in Flanders The same day that we marched from Wemmel to Halle Lieutenant-General Scravenmoor came from Namur and joyned us upon this march where he waited upon the King to give him an account of his Imprisonment and what he had learned with the Enemies On the 10th Brigadier Churchill's Regiment was order'd to Garison at Malines this Regiment had suffer'd very much at Lare where 't was sent to reinforce Brigadier Ramsay but more particularly in the loss of their Colours which were taken by the Enemy two of the Ensigns that carried them were kill'd and the third taken Prisoner On the 16th the Duke of Ormond came to Brussels with the English and Scotch Officers and Soldiers that had been taken Prisoners at Landen He was Treated very civilly at Namur the Count de Guiscard Governour took him into his own House where he was attended with all the care and respect they could express to a Person of so much worth and of so great Quality and the ablest Physicians and Surgeons of the Army were sent to Namur to look after him His Grace took at this time the greatest care imaginable for his Majesty's Interest for tho' he was so ill for the two first days after his arrival at Namur that the ablest Surgeons doubted of his Life notwithstanding the illness of his condition he sent for the Officers that were Prisoners there and made them come into his Chamber and told them that whatever Money they wanted either for themselves or for the
upon the News of this Detachment march'd from his Camp at Herlaymont-Capelle to Estines nearer to Mons and to the King's Army which was now but small after so great a Detachment upon which the King did not think it safe to venture this Detachment any further thereby to give Luxembourg the opportunity to have fallen upon him therefore this Body was countermanded But before the Elector marched back he detach'd Horne's and Bernstorf's Regiments to the Garison of Newport and the same day Offerrel's and Ferguson's Regiments were sent to Winter Quarters the first to Bruges and the latter to Ostend On the 11th which was the day following the Elector march'd with the Body under his Command to St. Levinus-Haltheim in order to rejoyn the King at Ninove who had march'd hither from St. Quintin-Linneck the day before and in leaving this Camp the King order'd to Louvain the Regiments of Ecker and Fagel and those of Aylua Anhalt and Oxenstierne to Brussels The 12th the Elector rejoyn'd the King at Ninove On the 13th about 900 English Recruits came up to the Camp 300 of them were for the Guards and the other six that had been drawn out of the Princess Ann's Sir David Collier's Hasting's Prince of Hesse's St. George's and Tiffeney's Regiments were divided by Lot amongst the English Regiments that had suffered most at Landen On the 14th the King 's Domesticks left the Camp to go to Loo and the day after the King seeing that nothing could be done for the relief of Charleroy and that the Campagne drew near to an end left the Command of the Army in the Elector's Hands and went by Breda to Loo in order to repass soon after the Sea to meet his Parliament in England and prepare Matters for a more vigorous Prosecution of the War according to the Resolution taken by the rest of the Allies and the King's Guards did after Duty upon the Elector and gave him the same Honours that they are oblig'd to shew to the King The 18th the two Battalions of Friesland Guards to Prince Casimir of Nassau were sent to Garison in Louvain In the mean while the French pursued very vigorously the Village of Charleroy and the Garison between 4 and 5000 strong commanded by the Marquiss de Castillo Master of the Spanish Ordnance Colonel Pimentel the Governor and Bulau Brigadier of the Dutch made as brave and noble resistance The French fir'd continually their Cannon and Mortars to make the Place as uneasie as possibly they could to the besieged They batter'd to Pieces the Redoubt or detach'd Bastion that is without Brussels Port but it was so Min'd that the Enemies would not venture to take it They changed their Attack to the Horn-work that cover'd the Sluce of the Pond and to the Redoubt that was in the middle of it and the Enemies had now advanc'd their Works within ten or twelve paces of the outer Angles of the cover'd Way towards the Pond and on the other side beyond the Point of the Horn-work upon its Flank The Enemies Cannon had fired hitherto so furiously that they had dismounted all the Cannon the besieged had but on the 12th the Besieged made a shift to refit two or three Pieces and in the Night they kill'd and wounded about 100 of the Enemies among whom were some Officers De Pont an Ingenier was wounded mortally The 13th the besieged fired a Bomb which fell in the Magazine of Powder upon one of the Enemies Batteries kill'd six Men and dismounted two of their Cannon The French continu'd their fire upon the two Redoubts that without Brussels Port and that in the Pond in this last a Spanish Captain with 50 Men was posted for its defence and besides the Batteries of Cannon they fir'd against it they threw twice more Bombs into the Place than there were Men to defend it They fir'd their Mortars here by Batteries so that the Soldiers had ten or twelve Bombs sometimes about their Ears On the 14th in the Afternoon Monsieur de Vauban order'd six Pontons to be fasten'd together upon which a Detachment was sent for the Assault of the Redoubt in the Pond The Spaniards were now reduc'd to little above half the Number notwithstanding they made a good resistance but at last were forc'd to Capitulate The same Day the Duke of Luxembourg who had advanc'd as far as Mons upon our Detachment towards Flanders return'd to the Camp by Charleroy after he heard that the Elector had rejoyn'd the King at Ninove He left the King's House conton'd near St. Guislain for the conveniency of Forage and generally all the Horse between Mons Valenciennes and Maubeuge The French and Suisse Guards remain'd at Estines and another Body at Givry The 15th the Besieged made a very brave Sortie they levell'd part of the Enemies Works and kill'd many of the Enemies a Captain was kill'd and the Marquis of Charrost wounded On the 16th in the Evening the Enemies attack'd the Work that cover'd the Sluce of the Pond 120 Men defended it very bravely but at last the French made themselves Masters of it after they had lost 50 Men in the Attack a Captain and two Ingeniers wounded When the Enemies had made themselves Masters of the Redoubt in the Pond and of the Work that cover'd the Sluce they began to drain it The 19th the besieged made a very brave and vigorous Sortie they beat the Enemies from a great part of their Works which they destroyed and levell'd and kill'd the Enemies a great many Men. The 22d the Besieged made another Sortie upon the Enemies which proved not so successful as the former They wounded a Lieutenant-Colonel and five Ingeniers and in the Afternoon one of their Bombs fell among some Magazines of the Enemies Granades but they took such care that it did them no great damage The 23d the Besieged continu'd their Sortie but were repuls'd The same Day we made a very great Detachment of 28 Men per Battalion from our Army at Ninove with a proportionable number of Horse under the Command of Lieutenant-General Opdam to Escorte a Convoy of 250 Waggons and seven Pieces of Cannon into Ath. The Waggons were loaded with all manner of Provisions and Ammunitions which got safely into the Place that Evening Wey's Regiment was sent at the same to re-inforce the Garison of this Place Lieutenant-General Opdam upon his return found that the Country-people about Lessines had made a great quantity of Beer expecting that the French Army would come and Encamp there as usually it did every Year and because they had not brought it to be sold in our Camp the Convoy Waggons that return'd empty from At h had orders to take all this Beer away and to bring it into our Camp at Ninove We made much about the same time a good Detachment out of all our Dragoons and 't was reported that their Design was to steal a Relief into Charleroy that Jacob Son to the Major that Commands into the Bois