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lucianusTuesday 4. January
This day we did learn more of the enemies taking of our position on the counterscarp and I was told by a gentleman who was witness to this action that the enemy did tear up the defenses we had built and that they had mounted a culverin and did shoot this down our trench slaying several of our men, and at this I must ask myself why our master of the entrenchments who doth fancy himself such a fine engineer and expert in the building of fortifications, why consented he to allow such entrenchments to be so poorly built and that are too shallow and that are long straight lines that doth allow just such a thing as happened last night that pieces could be shot down them slaying many men with one ball; this day in the camp and I feeling quite unwell that I kept to my quarters.
The account of the retaking of the counterscarp is found in Valdory. A culverin is a type of cannon the fired about a 5” iron ball. Luke’s diatribe about the entrenchments is directed at Sir Edmund Yorke, the amateur siege engineer with whom the English forces were saddled.
Valdory, G. Relation du siège de Rouen en 1591, par Valdory, précédée d'une notice bibliographique et historique par E. Gosselin, in Société rouennaise de bibliophiles, Société rouennaise de bibliophiles, No. 14, 1871.
This day we did learn more of the enemies taking of our position on the counterscarp and I was told by a gentleman who was witness to this action that the enemy did tear up the defenses we had built and that they had mounted a culverin and did shoot this down our trench slaying several of our men, and at this I must ask myself why our master of the entrenchments who doth fancy himself such a fine engineer and expert in the building of fortifications, why consented he to allow such entrenchments to be so poorly built and that are too shallow and that are long straight lines that doth allow just such a thing as happened last night that pieces could be shot down them slaying many men with one ball; this day in the camp and I feeling quite unwell that I kept to my quarters.
The account of the retaking of the counterscarp is found in Valdory. A culverin is a type of cannon the fired about a 5” iron ball. Luke’s diatribe about the entrenchments is directed at Sir Edmund Yorke, the amateur siege engineer with whom the English forces were saddled.
Valdory, G. Relation du siège de Rouen en 1591, par Valdory, précédée d'une notice bibliographique et historique par E. Gosselin, in Société rouennaise de bibliophiles, Société rouennaise de bibliophiles, No. 14, 1871.
