Frederick Michael Deux Ponts Count (1 results)
Published by Printed for T. Cooper. 1743, 1743
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Add to basket[4], 30, [2]pp; 8vo. Half title, final blank leaf, some edges uncut, horizontal chainlines; some light damp-staining mostly confined to upper out blank corners. Disbound. ESTC T110571, BL, National Trust & 2 in Bodleian; 5 locations only in N. America. The narrative begins with some account of defensive actions taken in June and… July by Marshall Bellisle against the Austrian forces during the Seven Years War, including a mixed gathering of 'Hungarians, Volunteers, Croatians, Pandours, Talpashes, and others'. The siege proper continues through August without evidently putting the town under serious threat: its garrison of 30,000 men and the tactics of their commander are more than a match for the enemy, who withdraw under cover of darkness in September, leaving an ineffectual blockade. By the twentieth, these forces too are driven from their posts 'with great loss'.
