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<HEAD>A Particular ACCOUNT Of the Taking of BUDA On the Second of <HI>September,</HI> by the Impe|rial and Auxiliary Forces, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe fir&s;t In&s;tant the Count de <HI>Scherffenberg</HI> arrived in the Imperial camp with the re&s;t of the Forces that had &s;erved under his Command in Tran&s;ilvania; They were in all 10000 Men, and 2000 of them mounted the &s;ame day the ad|vanced Po&s;ts at the <HI>Duke</HI> of <HI>Lorrain</HI>'s Attack. The &s;econd a Council of War was held, where it was unanimou&s;ly re&s;olved to make that day a General A&s;|&s;ault upon the Town; for which all things were accordingly di&s;po&s;ed; We continued from all our Batterles to play upon the Breaches, and the Flanks of the Enemies Retrenchments with Chain Shot; at the &s;ame time we threw a great many Bombs, and Carca&s;&s;es into the Town, and to amu&s;e the Turks, our Troops made &s;everal Movements, as if we had de&s;ign|ed to fight the Grand Vi&s;ier, and part of tho&s;e that guarded our Works toward the Town were in the Enemies &s;ight drawn from thence towards our Lines, while double their number were detached by covered ways to &s;upply their places. About three in the after|noon the Pali&s;adoes that &s;ecured the Breaches being beaten down by our Cannon, 3000 Men, divided in &s;everal Detatchments, and &s;upported by 3000 more, made the A&s;&s;ault at the Duke of <HI>Lorrain's</HI> Attack, commanded by the Great Ma&s;ter of the Teutonick Order, and the Prince <HI>de Croy</HI> Lieutenant-General of Foot; at the <HI>Bavarian</HI> and <HI>Brandenburgh</HI> At|tacks 1500 were appointed at each to begin the A&s;&s;ault, &s;econded by a re&s;erve of the &s;ame Number; and 2000 Men were ordered to make two fal&s;e Attacks. The Detachments, the Signal being given advaneed and amounted the Breaches with as great Order as Cour|age; The Be&s;ieged defended them with the &s;ame Re&s;olution they had made in former oc|ca&s;ions, and with their Fougades, Bombes, Stones, Bags, filled with Powder, Pikes and other Arms, forced our Men at the Duke of <HI>Lorrain's</HI> Attack twice to retire; but the&s;e being &s;upported by the pre&s;ence of the Duke, who led them on him&s;elf to the foot of the Breach going on the third time entered the Town with the &s;laughter of 800 Jani&s;aries that defended the Breach on that &s;ide, the Vi&s;ier Ba&s;&s;a was there during the whole action to encourage his Men, and gave great proofs of his Bravery, till having received &s;everal wounds, he fell among the &s;lain. The Brandenburgers entered the Town almo&s;t at the &s;ame time, and the Bavarians &s;oon after; &s;o that forcing the Enemy from their &s;everal Po&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s and Retrenchments, the A&s;&s;ailiants advanced to the Market-place, and in an hours time were ab&s;olute Ma&s;ters of the Place. The Turks after our Men were in the Town, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">g a Mi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e, and by the means of a Train they had layn for that purpo&s;e, &s;et &s;everal Hou&s;es on <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e, which continued till the next Morning, and con&s;umed abundance of rich Hou&s;hold goods and Merchandi&s;e; However, the Soldiers found a great deal of plunder of Plate, Jewels, Money, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> in&s;omuch, that many of them got 2 or 3000 Ducats a Man. It's reckoned that in the A&s;iault, and fir&s;t &s;ury of the Soldiers, after they were Ma&s;ters of the Town about 2500 Turks were &s;lain with their Arms in their hands, and about 1500 retired into a Redoubt on the &s;ide of the Ca&s;tle, where they put up a white Flag, and beg|ged
<PB N="2" REF="2"> for Quartors, which after holding of a Council of War, was in confideration of the app<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oach|ing night, and the confu&s;ion occa&s;ioned by the Fire in the Town, granted them. The Vice-Ba&s;&s;a, who was wounded, and the Aga of the Jani&s;aries, with &s;everal other Officers of Note were of this number; the fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t is the Elector of <HI>Bevaria's</HI> Pri&s;oner, &amp; the Aga the Duke of <HI>Lor|rain's.</HI> A great many Women and Children, and 4 or 500 Jews were likewi&s;e &s;aved; The&s;e are commanded to bury the Turks that were &s;lain, and to clean&s;e the &s;treets. We found in the place above 400 pleces of Cannon and Mortars (of the fir&s;t 170 are fit for Service, but mo&s;t of them di&s;mounted) with a great quantity of Arms, Cannon bullets, Bombs, Grenadoes, and Carca&s;&s;es, and other &s;orts of Ammunition. Of the Chri&s;tians there were not killed in the A&s;&s;ault above 100 at the Duke of <HI>Lorrain</HI>'s Attack, among which were the Marquis <HI>Spinola,</HI> and the Lieutenant-Colonel of the Regiment of <HI>Aspremont;</HI> but at the Bavarian Attack, the lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s was greater, three hundred being killed there, and about four hundred wounded. The Grand Vi&s;ier, who was encamped within a Mile of <HI>Buda,</HI> and had po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed him&s;elf of a Hill, from whence he pretended, to inconvenience us with his Cannon, under&s;tanding the Town was taken, &s;et fire to his Camp, and retired towards <HI>Al|ba Regalis,</HI> upon which the Duke of <HI>Lorrain</HI> &s;ent out 6000 <HI>Hungarians,</HI> commanded by the Count de Badiani, and 8000 Imperial Hor&s;e, under the Orders of General Caprara, to attack their Rear. And it was re&s;olved in a Council of War, that 10 or 12000 Foot &s;hould pa&s;s down the Danube with &s;everal p&s;eces of Cannon, towards the Bridge of E&s;|&s;ecke, and that Orders &s;hould be &s;ent to the Forces of Croatia, to join them, in order to cut off the Enemies retreat, while the re&s;t of the Imperial and Auxiliary Forces (except 6000 which are put as a Garri&s;on unto <HI>Buda,</HI> under the Command of Major-General <HI>Becke)</HI> &s;hould March after the Grand Vi&s;ier.</P>
<P>Hague, <HI>Sept.</HI> 20. An Envoy who arrived here &s;ome days ago from the Emperor of Mo|rocco, had ye&s;terday Audience of the States-General; his bu&s;ine&s;s is to make a Com|plement of Friend&s;hip from his Ma&s;ter, and to offer an Exchange of Slaves for &s;o many Guns. The Letters from Hamourgh give great hopes of an Accommodation. Tho&s;e from Vienna of the eighth In&s;tant&punc; &s;ay, That above 3000 Turks had been killed at the taking of Buda; That the Vi&s;ier Ba&s;&s;a was of that number, who was &s;lain after having received di|vers Wounds upon the Breach; that the Vice Ba&s;&s;a, the Aga of the Jani&s;aries, the Muf|ti, and &s;everal Officers of Note, and about 1500 Soldiers, and 500 Jews were Pri&s;oners. That there was in the Town at the beginning of the Slege, a Garri&s;on of 10000 Men, be&s;ides the Inhabitants that bore Arms. That the Chri&s;tians had found a great deal of rich Plun|der, that many of the common Soldiers got 2000 Ducats, and a Servant of the Duke de Croy, is &s;aid to have made a Booty of 9000 Ducats. That the Grand Vi&s;ier &s;o &s;oon as he knew the Town was taken, retired towards Alba Regalis, and leaving a &s;ufficient Garri&s;on in that place, continued his retreat towards the Bridge of E&s;&s;ecke; That the Duke of Lorrain had &s;ent out great Detachments to attack his Rear, and intended to march after him with the whole Army.</P>
<P>Bru&s;&s;els, <HI>Sept.</HI> 17. We have had here for ten days together, &s;uch publick Rejoicing and Fea&s;t|ing, that the like hath not been known. On Sunday night the Prince de la Tour, Treated our Governor-General, and the whole Court very &s;plendidly, and afterwards entertained them with very fine Fire-works: And ye&s;terday his Excellency gave a very magnificent Dinner to all the Grandees, Mini&s;ters, Generals and Coun&s;ellors of State. Our la&s;t Let|ters from Vienna informed us, that the Duke of Lorrain had &s;ent a Detachment of 8000 Hor&s;e, under the Command of General Caprara to pur&s;ue the Grand Vi&s;ier, who retired with all the diligence he could towards the Bridge of E&s;&s;ecke, and that his Highne&s;s was preparing to follow with the whole Army. The&s;e Letters &s;ay, That the mo&s;t con&s;iderable Jews of Buda had, during the A&s;&s;ault, gotten into Boats, hoping to e&s;cape with their Rich|es down the Danube, but that they were di&s;covered, and taken by the Hungarians, who got a Booty of une&s;tee mable value.</P>
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<P><HI>Edinburgh,</HI> Re-Printed by the <HI>Heir</HI> of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to His Mo&s;t Sacred <HI>MAJESTY,</HI> 1686.</P>
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