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NEWJ.735.005
31 Mar 1735:21 (418)
London. Octob. 12. A few days ago there were shewn to their
Majesties in the drawing-room at Kensington, some busquet
balls that had glass wrought up in the melting, and which
had been fired from the Marshal d'Ausfeldt's camp near
Philipsbourg, upon Prince Eugene's soldiers, the wounds
given by them proving incurable. Prince Eugene sent a
letter by a trumpeter to the marshal, complaining the this
barbarous and unusual method of war; the marshal caus'd
strict search to be made throughout the army, and finding
several soldiers had provided themselves with these sorts of
bullets, he order'd them to be taken away, and the men to be
punished for their inhuman and unwarrantable zeal against
their enemies.
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