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NEWJ.735.015
26 Aug 1735:32 (428)
June 26. Our letters from Italy advise, that Count
Konigsegg was the 20th N.S. at Villa Franca near Verona,
making large strides to gain the Tyroleze, where his hea[
] arrived and the [ ] . . .
The [allies] have block'd up this place det[ ] a large
body of troops in pursuit of the Imperialists; they threw
three bridges over the Mincio, the French and the
Piedmontese passing the two higher and the Spaniards the
lower, in hopes of surrounding the Imperialists, who made a
halt two leagues from Golto,. and disposed themselves as if
they intended to face the enemy; but this was only a feint
of Count Konigsegg, who seeing himself on the point of being
attacked, and probably hemm'd in, disingaged himself by an
incomparable artifice; he had the fortune of a wood near his
camp, and spreading a small body of men in the front of it,
kept them in perpetual motion, their drums and kettle-drums
beating, and their trumpets sounding, as if the whole army
was present; the general himself appearing at the head of
this corps, and the allies took it for granted the whole
Imperial Army was there, when in reality the greatest part
of them was filing off for the Bishoprick of Trent. . .
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