The history of the League. . o£A* rib of the Mountain, on whichhis Army was not wholly yet embat-tefd, he defended the pafTage of theRiver and always repulsd the Rejters*who returnd twice or thrice to theCharge, and did their uttermoft toForce it; and that having left it freethe next Morning, according to therefolution which had been taken in theCouncil of War, he made good theRetreat of his whole Army, withoutthelofs of one fmgle raan. After both Armies had refreflidthemfelves for two or three days, theGermans who were always Coailed onthe Right, and perpetually harrafsdby the Duke o
The history of the League. . o£A* rib of the Mountain, on whichhis Army was not wholly yet embat-tefd, he defended the pafTage of theRiver and always repulsd the Rejters*who returnd twice or thrice to theCharge, and did their uttermoft toForce it; and that having left it freethe next Morning, according to therefolution which had been taken in theCouncil of War, he made good theRetreat of his whole Army, withoutthelofs of one fmgle raan. After both Armies had refreflidthemfelves for two or three days, theGermans who were always Coailed onthe Right, and perpetually harrafsdby the Duke of Guife who led theVanguard , having pafsd the Meufinear Neufchateauy enterd France bythe Principality of joinville , wherethey took their fir ft Quarters at SuVrhain. The Duke of Lor rain who hadfollowd them as far as his own Fron-tiers,, and had what he defird, whenhe had feen the Strangers out of hisEftates, was refolvd to go no fartheribut retird into the Dutchy of Bar re ias did alfo the Marquis d Havre with S his. The Hiflory of the League. his Walloons > both of them faying thatthey cou d not enter into France with-out permiflion from the Ring. Thusthe Duke ofGuife was left to himfelfjwith his own Troups, which amoun-ted not to four thoufand men; andneverthelefs he undertook with an in-vincible Courage, and fo fmall aPower, to purfue, to infeeble andentirely to mine that great Army,which was yet more increasd in theBaffigny^ by the conjunftion of thofeTroups , which the brave ChaftillonSon to the late Admiral brought outoiLanguedoc and Dauphine, after ha-ving traversd Ltonnois and Burgundywith incredible difficulty. The Duke then undertook them all,being followed by Souldiers as indefati-gable as himfelf, who believed there wasnothing impofhble for them to per-form under his Conduft: and fome-times appearing at the head of the E-nemy, fometimes at their Rere, thencoafting them, now on the right hand,and afterwards on the left, cuttingthem off from Provifions, giving
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