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The history of the last campagne in the Spanish Netherlands, Anno Dom. 1693 with an exact draught of the several attacks of the French line by the Duke of Wirtemberg, with the detachment under his command : done upon copper / by Edward D'Auvergne ...
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D'Auvergne, Edward, 1660-1737.
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Wing D299; ESTC R15641
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that was to Winter from the Scheld to the Sea came near Courtray to Fortifie that Town which they have a mind to put in a Condition to hold a formal Siege They made another Detachment towards Dixmuyde to Fortifie that Place for a Winter Quarter and are since separated in their several Quarters all along as near our Frontier as possibly they can in order not to be idle this Winter if the Weather proves kind and favourable and they will be so much the more pressing and urgent to undertake something that they know the Allies are all resolved to make new Levies this Winter to be in a better Condition the next Campagne to resist the French Greatness than they have yet been during this War Both the Mareschals of Luxembourg and Villeroy are gone to the French Court to concert Matters for some undertaking and the Mareschal de Boufflers remains to Command in Flanders And now that Bouffler's Detachment of 12 Battalions from the Rhine is Quarter'd in the Pays de Luxembourg that besides they have now in Flanders the Troops that Guarded the Coasts of Normandy and Britanny 't is not doubted but that they will be able to do us some considerable Damage this Winter unless the Allies are very quick both in the recruiting and augmenting the Forces they have here 'T is wholly their Interest and by what hath hitherto appear'd in this War 't is reasonable to think that it would not be done in vain since the advantage that the French have hitherto had in this War has not proceeded so much from their Bravery as from their Numbers for in all the Rencounters which the Allies have had with them this War it has plainly appear'd that they do owe their Success meerly to the prodigious greatness of their Armies Therefore if it be true that all the Allies put together have more Men and Money than the French King I am of opinion they must attribute the ill Success of this War to nothing else but their unseasonable Parcimony which has rather serv'd to augment the French King's Power than answer'd in the least the design'd ends of the present League So long as we do all ease our Shoulders of the Burden 't is reasonable nay 't is necessary the French should have Success Their efforts are vigorous and ours are faint and languishing We make the War as cheap as possibly we can and that onely serves to make it last the longer and the Charges must be the same at long-run but they are far from being so much to our advantage as when our efforts are great tho' for the present more burdensome The Allies had as good fling their Money into the Sea as think to continue the War with Forces so unequal to those of our Enemy's for whilst they continue on this Foot we onely ruine and weaken our selves to no other purpose than to increase the French Power Whatever success the Enemies have had hitherto yet still the Iron is hot for the Allies to strike if they will but go to the expence of augmenting their Forces The French has made very great efforts this War and his Treasures are not inexhaustible It appears rather by the uncertain value of Coin which is hardly the same two Months together in France that he is reduc'd to very great shifts to replenish his Coffers which were so exhausted the latter part of this Campagne that Money was very scarce in his Armies and Garisons The Colonels had only Bills assign'd them for the payment of their Troops upon which they were to get ready Money as well as they could In their Garisons the Officers were generally so poor that they gave Notes under their hands for want of Money to pay for their Subsistance I have heard of one of our Soldiers that was two Months in their Service after they had made him a Prisoner and deserted over to us again that for the time he was amongst them he received no more than one French Half-Crown of pay All this that I say I have from Gentlemen that have been among them and whom I ought to believe else I should take care not to publish this Besides there reigns a very great Famine and scarceness of Corn all over France and in their Conquests their daily Edicts are authentick proofs of it tho' in the Preface of those Edicts they endeavour'd to throw dust in the Peoples Eyes but words do not feed hungry Bellies And we hear daily in this place what misery the People suffer at Lisle and in other parts of the French Conquests 'T is true this helps the French King to make his Recruits and to encrease his Forces since his Subjects must either be Soldiers or starve but still I dare say that the French King does not love to see his Kingdom in so universal a Desolation when those who are Soldiers rather than Starve leave the Plough and thus only augment the Famine and the publick Calamity In short I may safely affirm that we are all weary of this War the French King as well as the Allies and therefore what the Allies have to do is to raise such an Army for the next Campagne as may put them in a condition to treat of a Peace upon advantageous terms and not be forced to accept of such an one as will only put the French King after a little breathing and that he has replenished his Stores into a better capacity to enslave Christendom which Peace is worse than the worst of Wars And the Allies have this to encourage their vigorous Prosecution of this War I speak particularly as to England and Holland that they have a King who does yet venture his precious Life for the advantage of the common Cause more freely than they can venture their Purses Let the King 's greatest Enemies consider but impartially His Majesty's Conduct and Circumstances and they must be convinc'd that what the King does is not out of any Interest of his own but in an uprightness and sincerity of Conscience to do good to Europe in general and to us his Subjects in particular God has not blest His Majesty and us with an Heir therefore he does not seek the aggrandizing of a Family What then can be the reason that the King does so freely and so often expose his Sacred Person to the greatest Dangers but only a publick Christian King-like Spirit of doing good to his Allies and to his People and to procure a firm and lasting establishment of Christ's true Religion in its ancient and primitive Purity in his Kingdoms and in the Dominions of his other Protestant Allies And since we have follow'd His Majesty in this History from the Field which he left on the 15th to Loo where he arriv'd on the 17th we ought to see him safe in England among his good People before we finish the account of this Campagne The King remain'd at Loo to divert himself after the Fatigues of the Field in Hunting till the 1st of Octob. that he arriv'd at the Hague where His Majesty spent some time in Conferences with the States General and Council of State who have consented to a new Levy of 15000 Men besides the 4000 Suissers rais'd last Summer and to augment proportionably their Maritime Forces The Plenipotentiaries of the other Allies at the Hague have consented to the same Resolution according to their different proportions The King was now hastening over to meet his Parliament in England but he was detain'd by Storms and contrary Winds till the 28th that His Majesty sail'd from Oranie Polder and arriv'd safely the day following about three in the Afternoon at Harwich and so went on to London to the great joy and satisfaction of his good People to see His Majesty safe amongst them after all the great Dangers to which he had expos'd his Person this Campagne The Repartition of the English and Scots Infantry's Quarters for this Winter GHENDT The three Battalions of English Guards the Regiments of Selwyn and Fuziliers BRVGES Scots Guards Royal Regiment Bathe Tidcomb Castleton Graham Offerrel Mackay and Leven MALINES Dutch Guards Churchil Trelawney and Earl DENDER MOND Collingwood and Stanley OSTEND Lauder Ferguson Argyle All the English Horse are Quarter'd at GHENDT except the Life Guards that have their Quarters at BREDA FINIS Errors of the Press PAg. 29. line 1. for Swiming r. Swimming p. 44. l. 14. for and so came the Palisado's r. and came to the Palisado's p. 44. l. 30. for Obscure r. Observe p. 56. l. 21. dele from p. 115. l. 24. for Village r. Siege p. 118. l. 19. for into r. in