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SCG-C.748.005
15-22 Feb 1748:21 (723)
London, October 6. Letters by this day's mail give us the
following account of a remarkable expedition executed by Mr.
de Colignon, a lieutenant colonel in Frangipani's Hussars:
This officer, accompanied by Major Beck, set out in the
night between the 4th and 5th inst. with about 300 Hussars
and a quantity of shells, as if destined for an assault. He
directed his march to the Demer, and being arrived in the
neighbourhood of Dinet, he ordered his pioneers to work, and
made such dispositions as if he had been tracing out a camp
for 20, 000 men: He likewise made a feint of throwing
bridges on the Demer. After this he rode several times
round Diest, in order to discover the properest place for an
attack; and sent a drum into the town to summon the French
to surrender before the arrival of the numerous body which
he expected every hour on the Demer. The summons was
rejected. . .
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