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BNL.748.002
29 Jan 1748:12 (2389)
London, Sept. 22. 1747. Letters by this day's mail give us
the following account of a remarkable expedition executed by
M. 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 instant, with about 300
hussars and about the same number of pandours, carrying with
him to waggons and a quantity of shells, as if destin'd for
an assault. He directed his march to the Demer, and being
arrived in the neighbourhood of Diest, he ordered his
pioneers to work, and made such dispositions as if he had
been tracing out a camp for 20000 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 summons the French to surrender before the arrival of the
numerous body which he expected every hour on the Demer.
The summons was rejected. . . [1 more para.]
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