The Novels of Daniel De Foe Author:Daniel Defoe Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. IV. Further operations of the Campaign—/ am quartered at Trent, and marry my Landlord's Daughter—I sell my Company, and embark in the French Fleet—Parti... more »culars of their Expedition—I return unexpectedly to Paris, and make a disagreeable discovery relating to my Wife—/ challenge and 'wound her gallant. .Dux I hasten on to my own history, for I am not writing a journal of the wars, in which I had no long share. The summer after this, our two Irish regiments were drawn out into the field, and had many a sore brush with the Germans; for prince Eugene, a vigilant general, gave us little rest, and gained many advantages by his continual moving up and down, harrassing his own men and ours too; and whoever will dp the French justice, and knew howthey behaved, must acknowledge, they never declined the Germans, but fought them upon all occasions, with the utmost resolution and courage ; and though it cost the blood of an infinite number of fine gentlemen, as well as private soldiers, yet the duke de Vendosme, who now commanded, though king Philip was himself in the army this campaign, made the prince of Savoy a full return in his own kind, and drove him from post to post, till he was just at the point of quitting the whole country of Italy; all that gallant army prince Eugene brought with him into Italy, which was the best without doubt, for the goodness of the troops, that ever were there, laid their bones in that country, and many thousands more after them; till the affairs of France declining in other places, they were forced in their turn to give way to their fate, as may be seen in the histories of those times, as above; but it is none of my business. The part that I bore in these affairs was but short and sharp; we took the field about the beginning of July, 1702, and ...« less