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NYG(B.739.017
5-12 Nov 1739:11,12,21 (730)
From the Imperial Camp in Servia, July 23. The 18th instant
we received advice that the gross of the Turkish Army was
arrived at Rawna, with an intent to pass the Morava, upon
which the Velt Marshal Count Wallis [intended] to send
orders to the General Count Neuperg, to advance in all haste
with his troops, in order to join the Grand Army, and then
march towards the enemy.
The 19th we heard that the Infidels had already formed a
Camp near Semendria. . .
The 20th the troops that had begun their march halted, but
as Count Wallis heard that the enemy had attacked our
advanced Guard, General Berneclan was detached in the night
with 1000 men and some hundreds of volunteers, in order to
reconnoitre the strength of the Turks and the situation of
their camp, and also to attack their advanced guards. The
General found that the greatest part of their troops had
already passed the Morava, and was attacked by them, but had
the good fortune to repulse them three times, but in all
appearances would have been overpowered by numbers, had he
not made use of a stratagem which had the desired success.
He ordered the trumpets of his detachment to retire and post
themselves behind a hill in a wood near the enemy, where
they sounded a march, which made the Turks believe that
fresh troops were coming to relieve our men, and the alarm
spreading amongst them they retired with the utmost
precipitation towards Grotska; so that General Bernclan had
time enough to join the army again. We had 22 men killed
and wounded in this skirmish.
The 21 General Pallavicini received orders to sail with
the Men of War towards Grotska, in order to keep the Turkish
saicks at a bay, and likewise disperse the infidels, who had
taken post on the banks of the Danube. . . In the evening
our troops received orders to get themselves in readiness to
march without notice, and the better to conceal our march a
drummer out of each Company was ordered to stay behind with
the baggage. . .
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