. The chronicles of an old campaigner, M. de la Colonie, 1692-1717 . ted from our first approaches, or at all events weshould have found ourselves obliged to force such entrench-ments before anything else could be undertaken, and thiswould have entailed a regular siege, which would havedelayed us enormously. This entrenchment on the otherside of the Save would have been of additional advantageto them, as it would have facilitated their sorties in thedirection of Semlin, and interrupted our communicationsover our bridge on the Save, used by our convoys andforaging parties. But owing to want of
. The chronicles of an old campaigner, M. de la Colonie, 1692-1717 . ted from our first approaches, or at all events weshould have found ourselves obliged to force such entrench-ments before anything else could be undertaken, and thiswould have entailed a regular siege, which would havedelayed us enormously. This entrenchment on the otherside of the Save would have been of additional advantageto them, as it would have facilitated their sorties in thedirection of Semlin, and interrupted our communicationsover our bridge on the Save, used by our convoys andforaging parties. But owing to want of experience theydid not profit by their opportunities, for they left theground open to us; there we opened our first trench andplanted some good batteries, the cannon of which sweptthe lower town across the Save with shot and shell, andultimately brought about the reduction of the place. Theyhad had, moreover, plenty of time and people to put thedefences of Belgrade into the state I have spoken of beforewe had made our own dispositions. The corps of troops Fold out. To face page 40? 1717] RECEPTION OF BAVARIAN CONTINGENT 409 that Prince Eugene had driven before him when he crossedthe rivers entered the town on June i8th; provisions andmunitions of war were not wanting to them, for they hadabundance of both, besides artillery; one hundred cannonwere counted on the ramparts and about eighty on thecaiques, so that they had nothing to do but to make fulluse of all these advantages. They had certainly dug anentrenchment before the upper town; but it was not onlybadly designed, but was also limited in size, being onlyjust sufficient to encamp within it the troops they wereunable to find room for in the town itself Another andstill less important one in front of the Palanka on theSave side was exposed to the fire from our batteries inthe trenches along that river, a state of things that wouldnever have arisen had they occupied that section of thefield I remarked upon above. Our Bavaria
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