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20th. In the morning they sprang a mine, which they had under the two angles. That on the right overthrew twenty gabions, with out hurting above two soldiers, and the damage was repaired in two hours, by the care of the Sieur Lapara, engineer. The mine on the left had not any considerable effect. The besiegers also at seven in the morning sprang the mine of Grondt; and it made a breach for six men to enter a breast. The grenadiers of Languedoc and Burgundy ascended first, with so much vigour, that they drove away fifty soldiers, which defended it, and made ten paces beyond the breach a lodgment forty toises long, notwithstanding they were fiercely shot at from the rampart, and the ravelin of Grondt. The captain of the grenadiers of Burgundy, and he of the grenadiers of Languedoc, two inferior officers, and thirty soldiers were wounded; and there were nine or ten soldiers slain.

About three in the afternoon, four soldiers of the besieged came into the camp; and they averred, that the besiegers had killed or wounded them since the siege above three hundred men: That Captain Gregory, a famous officer amongst them for commanding of parties, was killed, and not the major of the town, as the report went: That the Prince de Chimay made the women and children work upon the retirades; and that he was still resolved to make a vigorous defence.

20th. In the evening, the Sieur de Joyeuse, lieutenant-general, and the Marquis de Nesle, brigadier of foot, mounted the trenches on the right with two battalions of Champagne: and the Marquis de Renti, marshal de camp, mounted on the left with a battalion of la Ferte, and one of Orleans.

We extended, during the night, a great line, which made the place of arms, from one redoubt to the other, and we put it into a condition to contain above three thousand men. On the left the lodgment, which was along the traverse, was continued to the middle of the face of the counterguard, notwithstanding the enemy fired all night briskly upon us with musquets, bombs, and grenadoes.

We began also a platform on the right to look backwards into the covered-way of the place, and there were seven or eight soldiers killed, and about thirty wounded, with two officers. The Count de Tonnerre, colonel of the regiment of Orleans, was wounded in the head.

21st. At three in the afternoon, the besieged quitted the redoubt on the left-hand, seeing that it was intirely inclosed by the works of the besiegers, and seeing also the great breach their cannon had made therein. They retired into the caponieres of the ditch of the same redoubt, and from thence fired fiercely upon those that were in it. The besiegers put two pieces in battery, to drive them thencé.

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21st. In the evening, the Count de St. Geran, lieutenant-general, and the Sieur de Josseaux, brigadier of foot, relieved the guard of the trenches on the right, with two battalions of Navarre; and the Marquis d'Uxelles, marshal de camp, relieved it on the left, with the battalion of Vaubecourt, and that of Conti, at the head, whereof is the Prince de Conti,

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About seven o'clock, the enemy sprang a mine between two lodg ments, which the besiegers had upon the reverse of Paffendal; but it neither killed nor hurt any body.

At nine the miner was put to the middle of the counterguard, which covers the bastion. The besieged, an hour after, sprang a second mine, on the same side. There were three soldiers killed, and six or seven wounded. Some time before we had discovered a mine in the redoubt on the right-hand, and taken out the powder. During the night, we brought a battery of seven pieces, within thirty paces of the counterscarp; and perfected the platform, and place of arms, which joins the two redoubts.

22d. At break of day, the cannon of the great battery of Paffendal, fired by misfortune at the counterguard, and there were two miners killed, and three others wounded, with a lieutenant of the regiment of Conti, and three soldiers. Four soldiers of the regiment of Conti, animated by the presence and liberalities of the prince, who executes all the functions of a colonel, continued to work in the mine, whence many had been repulsed by the enemies fierce firing.

The miners found at nine in the morning a gallery in the wall of the counterguard, pierced with battlements, which flanked the re verse, and seized thereon. They found another underneath, which cut the counter-guard a-cross, and which gave us room to put ten miners into this last, to make therein as many branches, to the end, to cast a part of the earth into the ditch.

The enemy, having perceived the work of our miners, cast inef fectually great store of fire-works, and barrels full of powder, to drive them away, and to oblige the besiegers to quit the lodgment. The same morning the Prince de Conti caused to be attacked by a captain, who commanded sixty men of his regiment, a traverse, which the besieged possessed in the Fauxbourg of Paffendal, fifty paces from their gate, for to go securely to fetch water at the river. The enemies were driven from this traverse, although they resisted very stoutly; and we seized on an outgate of the town, fortified with good towers. About eleven in the morning, we knew, that the enemies had made many traverses within their counterscarp, and the besiegers, doing their utmost to hinder their finishing this work, made them. selves masters of the first redan on the right, and that on the left.

The besieged endeavoured to drive them thence, with a shower of grenadoes and stones; but it was without any success, and they were also, in fine, repulsed by the great firing and extraordinary vigour of the besiegers.

During the guard, about twenty soldiers were slain, and there were four officers, one engineer, and forty or fifty soldiers wounded; at the attack of Grondt, during the night of the 21st, to the 22d, and all this day, the besiegers laboured to get ground on the right, Jeaving the ravelin on the left, and they brought cannon to ruin the communication of the gate with the castle, which they batter in cessantly.

The Marshal de Crequi continues to visit and press the works,

and to give all the orders, necessary for advancing the siege, with all the vigilance and good conduct imaginable.

There arrive daily at the camp many noblemen strangers, whom curiosity, excited by the report, which is spread about of the beauty of this siege's works, and of the good order of the attacks, brings thither from all the neighbouring countries.

The enemies have done their utmost to endeavour the putting some succour into the place.

The Count de Valsassine, and the Duke de Bejar, undertook to get in at the head of four hundred reformed officers, and three hundred dragoons, and they came within three leagues of the place. But having learned, from the guides of the country, the disposition of our works, and that it would be impossible to execute their design, they retreated, and took their way to Bruxelles.

The works, which have all been conducted by the Sieur de Vauban, with such success, that they have hindered the enemy from making any sally, are in very good condition. They would have been farther advanced, had not the Marshal de Crequi, according to the king's orders, ordered the attacks with all the precautions, necessary to spare the troops, and moderate the ardour of our gentry.

May the 22d. In the evening, the Marquis de Lambert, lieute nant-general, and the Sieur de Refuge, brigadier of foot, relieved the posts on the right-hand of the trenches with two battalions of Piedmont. The Sieur de Langallery, marshal de camp, relieved the posts on the left, with one battalion of Auvergne, and two battalions of the Royal.

During the night, and the following day, our men wrought on the right-hand upon a battery of three pieces of cannon against the pa lisadoes of the counterscarp, for to batter the face of the bastion of that side, and that of the half-moon, which is on the left, and for to dismount a piece of cannon, the enemies had put there a little while since. We began also a battery of mortar-pieces behind the first battery, for to hinder the firing which the besieged made from the bastion and half-moon.

The two lodgments of the besiegers were lengthened, and there were finished two or three-and-twenty mines in the counterguard, to be made use of, when we should have seen the effect of three others, which had been made at the point of this counterguard. The ene mies cast, during the night, a great quantity of grenadoes and fireworks upon the workmen, and into the first posts, for to retard the works. But, in the day, the besiegers fired so fiercely, that it hindered them from appearing to shoot; and the work went on without any opposition. There was made, at the attack of old Munster, a battery of mortar-pieces, for to endeavour to drive the enemies out of the third part, which was left them of the castle, and to make a lodgment there without much loss. At the attack of Grondt, the houses whereof the besieged had this night burnt, the works went still on; leaving on the left the ravelin, which they possessed, and pushing towards the gate of the castle of Munster, which was, in the mean time, continually battered by our cannon. The Marquis de Mont

pesat was killed at this guard, this day, in the morning. We lost there an engineer, with ten or twelve soldiers; and there were two captains of foot, and three inferior officers wounded, with fifty soldiers.

The same 23d, in the evening, the Count du Plessis, lieutenantgeneral, and the Sieur de Morton, brigadier of foot, relieved the posts of the trenches on the right with a battalion of Normandy, and that of Soissons. The Sieur d'Erlac, marshal de camp, relieved the posts on the left with the battalions of Lyonnois and Turenne. In the night we extended, and perfected the two lodgments on the counterscarp; and we wrought to make the communication of the one with the other. The besieged sprang a mine under the lodgment on the left, but nobody was hurt by it, because our men were retired to free themselves from a very great number of grenadoes and fire-works, which the enemies cast there, during the space of two hours; we resettled ourselves there afterwards, much better than we were before. At six in the morning, the enemies pretended they would make a sally; but they durst not advance, having seen our grenadiers march towards them with great resolution. An hour after, the battery of three pieces of cannon began to play, and, at the same time, we cast store of bombs from the battery of mortarpieces, which was behind it. The fifth of these bombs fell upon two or three thousand grenadoes, which were in their half-moon, and set them on fire. The fire was very great for above an hour; and we saw in the air abundance of hats and pieces of cloths, which made us judge, that many of the enemies were killed and wounded.

24th. Our men charged the mines of the counterguard, and we battered with two pieces of cannon, the caponieres, which are in the ditch, that runs along the right-side of this work. The great battery of Paffendal continued to batter a breach in the face of the castle, which looks towards this Fauxbourg; and we continued also to cast therein store of bombs with good success. The besieged possessed no more of the counterscarp, but the redan, which covers the half-moon, and the two parties were so near one another, that the enemies, with hooks, plucked away our gabions and faggots, and drew them into their ditches: These great progresses began to shake the besieged. Two run-aways, come from the place to the camp, affirmed, That the colonels, and a part of the officers of the garison, spoke of capitulating, to preserve their soldiers; the besieged hav ing then lost above six-hundred men, killed or wounded, by our bombs, or by shot from the trenches. These fugitives added, That the inhabitants, and the women, incessantly besought the Prince de Chimay to prevent, by a capitulation, the miseries whereunto they should be exposed, if they expected the last extremities. The be siegers lost, at this guard, the Sieur de Valorge, captain of the gre nadiers of Lyonnois, with eleven soldiers; an engineer, two inferior officers, and about forty soldiers, were wounded. My Lord How. and, son to the Earl of Carlisle, who was a volunteer, was mortally wounded, as he was giving marks of a great courage.

In the evening, the Marquis de Genlis, and the Marquis de Nesle,

mounted on the right-hand of the trenches with two battalions of the marine; and the Count de Broglio mounted on the left with two battalions of the Queen's. In the night, the enemies fired very fiercely, to drive the besiegers from their lodgments, who yet failed not to keep themselves there. They made also an attempt against the miners of the counterguard, and were repelled, with the loss of some soldiers. The besiegers abandoned the attack of Grondt, after they had drawn thence their cannon. At the attack of the castle of Old Munster, we brought two pieces of cannon, wherewith we made a breach of twelve paces in the gate, which the besieged held; and we made two batteries of mortar-pieces, which continually cast bombs there. There were, at this guard, five or six soldiers killed, and about twenty wounded.

In the evening of the 25th, the Sieur de Joyeuse mounted on the right with Bourbonnois and Humieres; and the Marquis de Renty on the left, with the Crown and Vermandois. The besieged, at the beginning of the night, cast so great a quantity of fire-works, that the besiegers had no small difficulty to preserve the powder they car. ried to charge the mines. They had already burnt two of our soldiers, who carried some in bags. The besiegers began three covered. ways upon the reverse of Paffendal, between the place and the three redoubts, for to go to the breach of the counterguard, when it should be made. They continued to batter a breach in the point of the half-moon, to ruin the caponieres of the ditch of the counter. guard, and to extend the mine.work to the right and left of the redan of the counterscarp, which the besieged were, in fine, obliged to quit. There were, at this guard, a captain of foot, and ten or twelve soldiers slain, and about twenty soldiers wounded.

26th, In the evening, the Count de St. Geran, and the Duke de la Ferte, relieved the posts of the trenches on the right with two bat. talions of Champagne, and the Chevalier de Tilladet relieved the posts on the left with the battalions of la Ferte, Conde, and Orleans; the battalion of Enguien went on the side of the castle. During the night, the besiegers finished the three ways, begun on the reverse of Paffendal; they carried on the mine-work, as far as the bottom of the ditch of the counterguard; and they wrought at the descent of the ditch of the half-moon, in the point whereof, there was al ready a breach for two men to get up a-breast. There was not, however, any appearance of hazarding to get up by this breach, though it had been even greater, because we were assured, that there were mines there, and because it was but in the first envelope of the half-moon, which was double. The besieged sprang two mines in the last redan of the counterscarp; the first had not any effect, and the other killed three soldiers, and wounded nine or ten.

27th. In the morning, we finished the charging of the mine; and we made the powder be carried by soldiers, disguised like labourers; we made them be thus disguised, because we had, for some time, observed, that the besieged shot not much at the labourers, believing that they were countrymen thereabouts, whom the besiegers constrained to work. We employed ourselves diligently in closing the

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