Charles I. Naval Expeditions, &c. of the Knglish ? Book III*
1627. we had landed about twelve or fifteenH undred of our Men, with three orfour Drakes, the Enemy (who lay undis-covered, by the Advantage of a Bot-tom) charged us with 200 Horse, and1000 Foot. In their Horse-charge theyIhewed themselves true Frenchmen , de-
rthe English fp erate ly valiant, and put our Men, be-
a handing! n ing unranked, and scarce stept on Shoarto Rout, and drowned many of theRear; But, at Length, by the braveExample of the Colonels, and General,they re-assumed their Courage, and inGratitude laid above a Hundred of theirCavalry on the Ground. The Foot se-ing the ill Entertainment of their Horse,came on very unwillingly, (their Cap-tains waving their Hats to them,) andwere glad to quit us; For after two orthree Vollies of Shot, and Stones, find-ing our Pikes too long for them, they
Wtcacf. tI>e Retook themselves to Flight, and leftus Masters of the Field, an Honourdearly purchased, it being by the Deathof many of our bravest Commanders, {e)ThatNight, we began to land ourHorse,and make good the Place by Intrench-ment, expecting another Charge fromthe Enemy that Night; But they leftus quietly, to enjoy our Victory, where-in,if they had been as provident as vali-ant, we had never prevailed ; For, ifthey had first charged us with theirFoot, to have received our first andhottest Volley, and then flanked us withtheir Horse, they had scarce left us anyfor a second Defeat. But it happened
the right Hand of the Point. All the Ships tobe well manned with Musketeers, to scour theShoar at the Landing, as well with their small asgreat Shot, if the Enemy offer'd to hinder theirLanding.
The whole Army to be divided into threeSquadrons, each Squadron consisting of five Com-panies : And being landed, each Regiment to beimmediately drawn into Batalia a part, and di-stant from each other a Hundred Yards. Andeach Soldier to be sufficiently furnilhed, withMunition and Victuals for two Days: And aQuarter-master to follow every Regiment, in aBoat alone, with Munition- For Want of Boats,this Order could not, however, be punctually ob-served. And they landed in some Disorder.
(e) The Number of the French Horsemenslain in this first Action were one Hundred andtwenty, three and twenty of which were Barons,and the Rest all Gentlemen. Of Foot they loftone Hundred. We lost about fix score Soldiersdrowned, and about twenty slain: Besides aboutthirty Officers killed and wounded.
• Names of the Officers killed.
SiR William Hey don, General of the Ord-nance; Sir Thomas Tork, Quarter-Master-Gene-ral; Sir Thomas Thornhurf, Lieutenant Colonel;
otherwise, by a Distension among them- 1627.selves, arising from this Cause. Mon-sieur fhoiras , Governour of the Island,had promised Baron St. Andrew, (St.
Andre ) the Honour of the first Charge,which he afterwards gave in Commandto his Brother, whereat he being dis-contented would not charge at all, norsuffer the Troops to second the Van-guard : Yet we must not attribute ourVictory, or rather Safety, wholly tothis Cause; But the especial Favour ofGod, who after our Soldiers took them-selves for lost, and ran away, gavethem Courage to resist, and then beat,the bravest Soldiers of all France, theRegiment of Champaign , never beforebeaten, and to defeat their prime Cal-valry, consisting all of Gentlemen ofQuality, a Thing miraculous for Infan-try to do. (i.) .
Friday, the thirteenth. The next BravadosMorning, Fhoiras , in a French Bravado, *s e Fr ^ stCsent a Page, with a Trumpet, to tell 1enera ‘my Lord Duke, he meant to give hima Breakfast: My Lord, to strew hewould conquer them, as well withCourtesy as the Sword, stood compli-menting with the Page, with his Hatin his Hand, and returned him withtwenty Pieces for his Message, and theTrumpet with five. The fame Day,
Sir William Beecher , returned from Ra-chel, with no other Answer, but De-lays ; For they being only Friends tothemselves , wouldJhew no Countenance orApprobation to our Actions , ’till we
were
Captains, Goring, Heitly, Country, Giyn, Blundel ,Babington, Morgan Bowel , Woodhoufe , Corporalof the Field : Johnson, Engineer : (Quarter-Ma-ster Netherton. Lieutenants , Anderson, Greenfaw,Sidnam. Ensigns, Fordain, Champernoon. Ser-jeant Greenwood , and some others.
Names of the Officers wounded.
Sir George Blundel, Serjeant-Major-General;Sir Charles Rich, Colonel; Sir EdwardConway,ColonelSir Edward Haw/ey, Lieutenant-Colo-nel ; Sir RichardGreemil, Serjeant-Major ; Cap-tains, Rainsford, and "John Bowel. Lieutenants,Anderson, Thorp, Welcome, and some others.
('-) “ A much greater Miscarriage happen-" ed on our Side; For had our Troops, while" the Enemy was in this Confusion, followed“ them immediately, there was good Reason to“ believe they might soon have made themselves" Masters of St. Martin’s, which was then very" indifferently provided for Defence ; But instead" of that, five Days were spent to no Purpose," belore they marched from their Camp, during“ which Time, the Enemy had Opportunities of" getting in Provisions, and strengthening them-" selves.