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A62163	The history of the state of the present war in Hungary, Austria, Croatia, Moravia, and Silesia between Leopold Emperour of Germany, and Mahamet the fourth Sultan of the Turks, in conjunction with Count Teckely and the Hungarian rebels. Giving an exact account of all the remarkable transactions from the beginning of the war, as sieges, battles, cessations, truces, treaties, denunciation of war, skirmishes, and other hostilities, to this time; but more particularly of the siege of Vienna, and the last great battle, &c. To which is added, a relation of the miseries the Christian captives undergo in Turky. All faithfully related according to the best and most authentick advice. By J. S. gent.	J. S. (John Shirley), fl. 1680-1702.	1683 (1683)	Wing S67; ESTC R219066	54,362	166

having sworn by the sacred Head as he termed it of Mahomet not to withdraw his Army till he had possessed himself of Vienna This advice some supposed too Romantick only to curry favour for his better treatment and that by receiving more liberty than ordinary he might make his escape For he moreover added That he did not greatly favour the Mahumetan Superstition but was greatly desirous to become a Christian yet was he sent prisoner to Raab there to remain till further orders The menaces of the Grand Signior though indeed he had a powerful Army on foot and every day expected to be in those parts had not such effects upon the Duke of Lorrain nor the Council of War that daily assembled in the Camp as to make them think of withdrawing the Leaguer from before Newheusel but the rather induced them to press the siege with greater resolution and vigor that so if it were possible to be Masters of that important place which so few years since cost the Turks 30000 Lives to obtain it before the gross of the Turks Army could pass the River Gran in order to attempt its relief or the Tartars joyn with Count Teckely to fall into Silesia This important place is scituate in a fair plain on the further bank of the River Neytra encompassed with a Mote and deep Trenches Palizadoes and divers Flankers the Battlements of the Walls being intermixed with small Towers or Bulwarks for playing the Cannon on or playing with Small-Shot in case of a Storm for there they stand secure from the force of the Leaguerers Small-Shot and advantagiously from all sides annoy them to the Land side For the River making a Point or Bend as it were incloses two parts There stands a strong Castle though not appearing more than twenty Cubits above on the Platform or Battlements on which are usually planted thirty pieces of great Ordnance To encounter this danger the Imperialists having raised two Batteries play so furiously that with their Cannon they dismounted divers Pieces of the Enemies many of which were broken with the violence of the Shot from another Battery that from four Mortars threw in about twenty Granadoes in one day which killed about 100 of the Besieged and demolished a considerable number of Houses and amongst other things beat down the Turret of their chief Mosk or Temple and that the Garrison was in great consternation it was reported by a Christian Slave who made his escape over the Wall and fled to the Imperialists adding That the Inhabitants having their Houses demolished in great number by the Shot of Cannon Bombs and Granadoes did greatly murmur against the Governour saying That the Grand Visier neglected and delayed their relief and that it was but reason they should provide for their own safeties in time by capitulating with the Besiegers who if things came to extremity if they spared their lives which was doubtful whether they would or not would certainly plunder them and strip them out of all they had and that this discontent of the common people the Governour had used great diligence to quiet and calm by many perswasions putting them in hopes of the Visiers and Aga of the Janizaries approach with 50000 Foot and 30000 Horse and that a greater power would follow from Belgrade and that upon their passing the River Gran the Visier of Buda would joyn them with 20000 more who were posted under his command upon an eminence near Gran Town But some of the most turbulent seeming still dissatisfied he caused six to be hanged up for a terrour to the rest and to deter them from mutinying which upon the Imperialists pressing the Siege they were prone to and immediately commanded the Captains to prepare for a Sally and especially those that were lodged on the Counterscap Which on the tenth of June they did advancing under shelter of the Night as far as the Bastion-trench but being furiously charged by the Imperialists they were beaten into the Town with great loss in which action the Imperialists lost 33 men and amongst them three Officers of note but the Turks trible the number for being pushed on by their Commanders who seldom spare their men they fell unawares into a fortified work where were lodged six Companies of Croats who with their broad Swords cut in pieces all that entered Whilst this was doing a Bombe falling in the Town fired one of their Store-houses which inraged by the Wind drove on consuming as near as could be computed by the continuance of the flame twenty Houses giving light also to the Action For during the conflagration all the Outworks were enlightened so far as to see each particular though this happened between one and two in the Morning The Turks beaten into the Town the better to prevent Supplies of Provision being brought up the River or any Forces that by Night might enter the Garrison for it was more than suspected that the Bassa of Buda had such a design The Duke of Lorrain commanded the Regiments of Halleweil Ladrow Khery and Castelli to reinforce the Body of Men under the command of the Palatine of Hungary with which he had posted himself on the other side the Neytra The news of the Siege of Newheusel and the success of the Imperialists in advancing and carrying it on being come to the Ears of the Prime Visier and that the Polonian King was advancing with a strong power intending to pass the River Olse at Jublow Row or Telschen in order to his passing into Hungary He sent a considerable supply of Mony to the Bassa of Caminietz to inable him to raise a body of Cossacks to be commanded in chief by the Cham of Tartary to observe the motions and oppose the proceedings of the Poles These people called Cossacks were once united to the Kingdom of Polonia and served them upon all occasions yet chose Captains of their own and did not acknowledg any King yet proved exceeding serviceable especially to prevent the incursions of the Tartars into Lithuania Podolia and other Provinces of the Poles into which they made frequent inroads as living for the most part upon spoil When in the Reign of Vldislayus they separated themselves for that the said King warred upon them either to bring them under his subjection or utterly to extirpate them but his project took not for choosing themselves Captains of divers Nations being indeed a medley of people they joyn'd with their brethren the Moscovite Cossacks and fought divers dreadful Battles with the Polonians with various success till at length being wearied they past the Ister and Boristhenus and there had Lands assigned them by the Turk and Moscovite they well knowing those men to be the Shield of Poland There they continued having divers conflicts with the Tartars and Poles till the death of Vldislayus and some years after When as the Poles perceiving themselves for want of their guard upon the Frontiers lye open and exposed to the fury of the savage Tartars who

taking of that place both which Teckely refused but in the end the difference was concluded which else might have redounded to the advantage of the Imperialists The long expected Alliance with the Crown of Poland being fully agreed and concluded the League offensive and defensive was signed on the first of April 1683. by Count Walstin his Imperial Majesties Ambassador on the one part and by the Commissioners of the Kingdom of Poland on the other by which treaty the Emperor obliges himself to act with an Army of 60000 Horse and Foot against the Turks and the King of Poland is thereby obliged to have 40000 men in the field to assist the Emperor in the War of which the Diet have approved notwithstanding the Threats of the Chians that the Tartars with a Body of 70000 men will fall into that Kingdom and use there all manner of Hostilities The further particulars of this treaty are these besides the forces aforesaid either Potentare is obliged to have in the field the Emperor is to pay the Polonian King in present Money Twelve Thousand Florrins and that his Imperial Majesty and the Queen Dowager of Poland do relinquish all pretensions of right they have or might have to the Crown of Poland and that neither the Emperor nor King of Poland do enter into a treaty or conclude a Peace with the Grand Seignior without each others Approbation and Consent The time for Action drawing nigh a great Council of war was held at Vienna on the 9th of April 1683 in order to take such measures as might be advantageous to the Empire in this Summers Campaign upon whose sitting the Margrave of Baden whom the Emperor had sent to take a view of Commora Raab the Isle of Schuts and other places of importance arrived and made his report declaring in what condition the fortifications were and in how good a posture of defence after which the Council proceeded to appoint the place of Rendezvous for the Army to be at Presburg and to approve of the Emperors choice in nominating the Duke of Lorrain Commander in chief of his Army to be imployed against the Turks and resolved that it was convenient and altogether necessary that a Body of men should be kept in pay in Crotia under the command of the Viceroy the better to secure those Countries from the incursion of the Turks and Tartars who were rallying on that side to burn and plunder They further concluded that it was convenient that General Schuts should immediatly march with 7000 men to joyn with the Prince Lubomirski who was advanced with 6000 Polish Horse for the service of the Emperor and that the Hungarian Troops consisting of a body of 2500 Horse and Foot Joyning with them should Act upon the Waag to prevent the Turks and Rebels from joyning and to hinder any Incursion that otherwise might be made That another body of 6000 men should incamp on the Waag near Leopolstat and in case they perceive the Turks to have a design upon that place to put themselves into it and besides this it was further ordered that ten or twelve thousand men should be posted upon the Frontiers of Morovia and Silesia to secure those Countries against the incursion of the Turks The Spring being now far advanced Count Teckely impatient of longer lying still having drawn his Troops under the Walls of Caschaw dispatcht a Messenger to the Bassa of Buda for a supply of 5000 horse that so he might invade the Country of Silecia with which number he was supplied and at the same time he sent his Mandates to the Nobility of the upper Hungary to attend him in Armes as their Prince but most of them sent their excuses desiring him not to involve them in such Danger and Hazard but rather accept a Sum of Money in Lieu of their service the which of some he accepted but of others refused saying they secretly envied his Advantage and held correspondency with the Imperialists therefore he thought it not good to trust them out of his sight threatning them with Military Execution if they did not instantly repair to his Standard The King of Poland being hastened by the Imperial Minister residing at his Court upon the conclusion of the Offensive and Defensive League used such diligence in raising men for the Service of the War and summoning the Ban and Arrear-ban of that Kingdom to attend him on the 20th of May he mustered an Army of 35000 men near Leopol with a design immediately to invade Caminice a strong Place taken from the Turks who about two Years since surprized it but at this time was diverted upon notice that the Fore-runners of the Turks Army were arrived at Belgrade and that the Grand Vizier was but four days march behind with a Body of 60000 Men and that 25000 Tartars had passed the Neister yet he sent to Count Teckely to acquaint him that he had made an Offensive and Defensive League with the Emperor and to let him know that unless he immediatly made his Peace with his Imperial Majesty he should be obliged to treat him as his Enemy to which the Count returned Answer that he had used his endeavour at the Port for an Accommodation but found the Grand Seignior altogether averse thereto and that without his Consent he could not neither would enter upon any further Treaty or conclude a Peace he having plighted his Faith to the contrary therefore if his Majesty of Poland did invade his Territories he would do his utmost to defend them and oppose the Invader with all his Power and thereupon gave Order for the passing six thousand Horse and Foot over the Danube to joyn a Body of Turks that wer ecoming down who in Conjunction are to have an Eye upon that part of the upper Hungary bordering on the Territories of the King of Poland and sent out divers Convoys to fetch in Corn and other Provision into his Camp resolving to expect the coming of the Grand Vizier whilst in the mean time the Palatine of Hungary and Vice-roy of Crotia were drawing the Forces of those Countries into a Body to joyn the Imperialists who daily repaired to the place of Rendez vouz These things passing the Treaty between the Emperour and the Elector of Brandenburg was pressed by the Imperial Minister residing at that Court with all earnestness to which his Electoral Highness appeared no way averse but desired time to consider what Methods he should take in order to his raising and maintaining such Forces as was on the part of the Emperour required to assist him in his Wars against the Turk which gave all men hopes of what after ensued viz. That an offensive and defensie League would be the consequence of that Treaty The 6th of May being come his Imperial Majesty accompanied with the Duke of Lorrain the Elector of Bavaria and other Princes of the Empire came to Presburg to take a view of the Army and to see them drawn up into Battalia and exercise