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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>A Copy of Coll. <HI>Wo&s;ely's</HI> Letter, to his Grace Duke <HI>Schonberg.</HI></HEAD>
<HEADNOTE><P>Licens'd, <DATE>February 28. 1690</DATE>.</P></HEADNOTE>
<OPENER><SALUTE>May it plea&s;e your Grace,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Send this to give Your Grace an Account of a Fight I had ye&s;terday with the Ene|my at <HI>Cavan.</HI> On <HI>Munday</HI> at four a Clock in the Afternoon, I left this place, with a Detachment of 700 Foot, and 300 Hor&s;e and Dragoons; I pa&s;&s;ed the River about Twelve at Night, within two Miles of <HI>Ballibays,</HI> where were two of the Enemies Scouts, who gave the Signal of our Motion, by firing &s;everal Mu&s;quets down the River, and making a Fire on a high Hill. I carried all my Men over about One a Clock, and in|tended to be at <HI>Cavan</HI> an hour before day; but the Miles were &s;o much lorger than I expect|ed, and the way &s;o dirty, and the difficulties &s;o many, that I got not thither until half an hour after Day break; and when I came there, I found what I did not expect: The Duke of <HI>Berwick</HI> who came there the Night before with 2500 Men, with which, and the Men of the Garri&s;on, made a Body of 4000 Men; all drawn up in very good Order before the Town, and near the Fort. As &s;oon as I di&s;po&s;ed my Men as the Ground would give me leave, I Charged them, and after an Hours Di&s;pute, we beat the in all out of the Field into the Fort: The Duke had his Hor&s;e &s;hot under him, and be in the Thigh. Coll. <HI>O Riely,</HI> who was Governour of the Town, was killed on the place, with two Lieutenant-Collonels, one a <HI>French-man,</HI> the other one <HI>Geogbagan</HI> an <HI>Iri&s;h-man,</HI> in great e&s;teem with them. Mo&s;t of our M<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">n unhappily fell on the Plunder, both on the Field, and in the Town, &s;o that we were in the greate&s;t confu&s;ion imaginable, which the Enemy &s;eeing from the Fort, made a very &s;trong Sally upon us, and came on &s;o briskly, that I thought all had been lo&s;s: I went with all the &s;peed I could to a place where I had placed &s;ome Detatchments of Foot, at the beginning of the fight, who had not been engaged at all, and as Providence had ordered, found them all there, being about 250; with tho&s;e, and about 80 Hor&s;e and Dragoons, I oppo&s;ed the Ene|my, whom I judged to be about 1500; and about the &s;ame time, &s;eeing it impo&s;&s;ible to get our Men out of the Town, <HI>I</HI> &s;ent an Officer with a Party of Hor&s;e, and ordered him to Fire the Town, which was immediatly done, and by that means the Soldiers were forced to quit it, and having joyned tho&s;e that were Fighting, we drove, the Enemy like Sheep into the Fort; which being a &s;trong place, and full of Men, and our Men Fatigued with Marching all Night, <HI>I</HI> did not think fit to Attacque it.</P>
<P>In this fir&s;t Action, tho&s;e that were Engaged, behaved them&s;elves very well; it was very unfortunate to us, that the Soldiers falling on the Plunder, put me udder a nece&s;&s;ity of burning the Town; for there was as much provi&s;ion in it as would have &s;erved this Garis;on Six Months, all the Hou&s;es being full of Bread, Meal, and Wheat, and va&s;t quantities of Oats and Beans. The Pri&s;oners give an Account, That the D. of <HI>Berwick</HI> was to Command a Body at <HI>Cavan</HI> of 10000 Men, which were to be made up out of a Detatchment out of the whole <HI>Army</HI>; and the fir&s;t place he was to Attacquc was this: which was to be done this day. This, <HI>I</HI> believe, was the Army Your Grace had &s;o frequent intelligence of; But I &s;up|pose the neck of the De&s;ign is now quite broke, we having de&s;troyed all their Provi&s;ions both for Hor&s;e and Man: And what, <HI>I</HI> believe, is a greater lo&s;s to them (we having blown up) their Ammunition which was in Town. As &s;oon as my Men are refre&s;hed, I'le have another bout with them for the Fort, which, <HI>I</HI> believe, they will quite of them&s;elves, for they have no Provi&s;ions or Cover for their Men; and <HI>I</HI> do not &s;ee bow they can well keep it, now the Town is de&s;troy'd.</P>
<P>I have receiv'd your Grace's In&s;tructions about the Fortifications and Gari&s;on, which &s;hall be carefully ob&s;erved; I prefume Your Grace will &s;end another Engineer, for Cap, <HI>Blood</HI> was &s;hot ye&s;terday in the Side, and I do not know how long it will be before he will be in a con|dition to go abroad.</P>
<P>I do not find we have lo&s;t above Twenty Men, and I think the Enemy lo&s;t not above Two or Three Hundred Men. Our greate&s;t lo&s;t fell on my Regiment; for my Major, and two of the be&s;t Captains I had, were killed; That is, Capt. <HI>Arm&s;trong,</HI> and Cap. <HI>Mayo.</HI> We have taken of the Enemy, Pri&s;oners, four Captains, five Lieutenants, two En&s;igns, and a Quarter-ma&s;ter.</P>
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<P>Printed at <HI>London,</HI> and Re-printed at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> 1690.</P>
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