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Dunkirk, Now Besieged By The Duke Of York.
DUNKIRK , NOW BESIEGED BY THE DUKE OF YORK .
THIS fortified p lace was captured in the year iojS by the English and French troops . Early in the campaign siege Was laid to it ; and when the-Spanish army advanced to it ' s relief , the combined armies of France and England rushed out of their trenches , and fought the battle of the Dunes , where the Spaniards were totally defeated . The valour of the Engiish was much remarked on this occasion . Dunkirk soon after this victory being
surrendered , was by agreement delivered to Cromwell . He committed the government of that important place to Lockhart , a Scotchman of ability , who had married his niece , and was his ambassador at the court of France . During these transactions , great demonstrations of mutual friendship and regard passed between the French King and the Protector .
The latter had concerted measures with the French court for the filial conquest and partition of the Low Countries . Lord Fauconberg , Cromwell's son-in-law , was dispatched to Louis , then in the camp before Dunkirk ; and was received with the respect usually paid to foreign princes by the French court . Mazarine , to flatter the Protector , sent his nephew Mancini to London , accompanied by the Duke de Chequi ; and expressed his
regret that his urgent affairs should deprive him of the nonotir which he had long wished for , of paying , in person , his respects to the greatest man in the world . But in several publications , viz . Thurloe ' s Papers , Carte ' s Collections , Vie de Cromwell par Raguenet , & c . & c . we find , that in reality the Cardinal did not entertain so high an idea of Cromwell . It may not be unworthy of remarkthat the then DUKE of YORK
, , exiled from his native country , who had with applause served some campaigns in the French army , and who had merited the particular esteem of Marshal Turenne , now joined his Royal Brother , and continued to seek military experience under Don John of Austria , and the Prince of Conde . Charles II . then doomed to act the vagrant part now allotted to
the branches of the House of Bourbon , held at that time his little and contemptible court at Bruges . That Monarch's character is considerabty tarnished by the sale of Dunkirk , which took place ia the year 1662 ; and it is somewhat singular in human affairs , that what the English Nation lost by the advice of one DUKE of YORK , will be recovered by the acknowledged gallantry of another , the present Illustrious FREDERICK .
Vauban , the celebrated engineer , exerted his skill in fortifying Dunkirk in a very extraordinary manner . Inconsequence , however of the Treaty of Utrecht , the fortifications were demolished in the year 1713 ; but by the pence of 17113 , the French were permitted to . repair them . At this reriod , however , they are in a ruinous condition , and must become an immediate prey to the Combined Troops under the command o ' f His ROYAL HIGHNESS . Kk
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Dunkirk, Now Besieged By The Duke Of York.
DUNKIRK , NOW BESIEGED BY THE DUKE OF YORK .
THIS fortified p lace was captured in the year iojS by the English and French troops . Early in the campaign siege Was laid to it ; and when the-Spanish army advanced to it ' s relief , the combined armies of France and England rushed out of their trenches , and fought the battle of the Dunes , where the Spaniards were totally defeated . The valour of the Engiish was much remarked on this occasion . Dunkirk soon after this victory being
surrendered , was by agreement delivered to Cromwell . He committed the government of that important place to Lockhart , a Scotchman of ability , who had married his niece , and was his ambassador at the court of France . During these transactions , great demonstrations of mutual friendship and regard passed between the French King and the Protector .
The latter had concerted measures with the French court for the filial conquest and partition of the Low Countries . Lord Fauconberg , Cromwell's son-in-law , was dispatched to Louis , then in the camp before Dunkirk ; and was received with the respect usually paid to foreign princes by the French court . Mazarine , to flatter the Protector , sent his nephew Mancini to London , accompanied by the Duke de Chequi ; and expressed his
regret that his urgent affairs should deprive him of the nonotir which he had long wished for , of paying , in person , his respects to the greatest man in the world . But in several publications , viz . Thurloe ' s Papers , Carte ' s Collections , Vie de Cromwell par Raguenet , & c . & c . we find , that in reality the Cardinal did not entertain so high an idea of Cromwell . It may not be unworthy of remarkthat the then DUKE of YORK
, , exiled from his native country , who had with applause served some campaigns in the French army , and who had merited the particular esteem of Marshal Turenne , now joined his Royal Brother , and continued to seek military experience under Don John of Austria , and the Prince of Conde . Charles II . then doomed to act the vagrant part now allotted to
the branches of the House of Bourbon , held at that time his little and contemptible court at Bruges . That Monarch's character is considerabty tarnished by the sale of Dunkirk , which took place ia the year 1662 ; and it is somewhat singular in human affairs , that what the English Nation lost by the advice of one DUKE of YORK , will be recovered by the acknowledged gallantry of another , the present Illustrious FREDERICK .
Vauban , the celebrated engineer , exerted his skill in fortifying Dunkirk in a very extraordinary manner . Inconsequence , however of the Treaty of Utrecht , the fortifications were demolished in the year 1713 ; but by the pence of 17113 , the French were permitted to . repair them . At this reriod , however , they are in a ruinous condition , and must become an immediate prey to the Combined Troops under the command o ' f His ROYAL HIGHNESS . Kk