FOOTNOTES:
[190] M. Camille Rousset, Histoire de Louvois, already quoted, vol. i. p. 257.
[191] Letter from the Abbé Bigorre to De Lionne, December 28, 1668:—Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, section Rome, 1669.
[192] Letters from the Abbé Bigorre to De Lionne, December 28, 1668. After the expedition to Candia, M. d’Albret alone received the hat. See despatches from the Abbé Bigorre to De Lionne, July 9, 1669, and from the Abbé de Bourlemont to De Lionne, August 9, 1669:—Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, section Rome, 1669.
[193] Instruction que le roi a résolu être envoyée à M. le duc de Beaufort, pair, grand maître, chef et surintendant général de la navigation et commerce du royaume, sur l’emploi de l’armée navale que S. M. met en mer sous son commandement pendant la présente campagne:—Imperial Library, Manuscripts, Colbert’s Papers.
[194] Letters from De Lionne to the Cardinal Rospigliosi upon the troops promised by Louis XIV., January 11 and February 26, 1669:—Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, section Rome. État des armées de mer et de terre envoyées par le roi très-chrétien en Candie, en la présente année 1669:—Archives of the Ministry of Marine. Letter from Louvois to the Governors, February 20, 1669:—Archives of the Ministry of War.
[195] Among them were the Count de Choiseul, MM. de Castellan and de Dampierre, Marquis de Saint-Vallier, Duke de Château-Thierry, Marquises d’O, d’Huxelles, and de Sevigné, &c. &c.:—Letter from Madame de Sevigné to Bussy-Rabutin, August 18, 1669. At the end of 1668, Count de Saint-Paul and Count de la Feuillade had gone to succour Candia at the head of three hundred volunteers. But they returned after a very murderous sally, having lent the Venetians an assistance more brilliant than actually efficacious.
[196] [These were small vessels of light draught, without any foremast.—Trans.] The galleys, to the number of thirteen, commanded by Vivonne, were delayed several days off the coasts of Italy, and only arrived a week after Beaufort:—Archives of the Ministry of Marine.
[197] Letters of Saint-André-Montbrun:—Manuscripts of the Imperial Library. Letters from Navailles to the King:—Archives of the Ministry of Marine.
[198] Letter from Navailles to the King, July 5, 1669.
[199] Letter from Delacroix to Louvois, June 22, 1669:—Archives of the Ministry of War.
[200] The Marquis de Saint-André-Montbrun, a French nobleman, had been for several years in Candia, and by his courage and talents had finished by becoming, under Morosini, the chief general of the Venetians.
[201] Rélation de ce qui s’est passé dans la sortie qui s’est faite en Candie par toutes les troupes du roy, tant de terre que de mer, pour l’attaque du camp de la Sablonnière, le 25 du mois de Juin, 1669:—Archives of Ministry of Marine, Campagne 3. In my account I have chiefly followed this unpublished manuscript, which has every sign of authenticity.
[202] Rapport adressé par le sieur Brodart à Colbert, à la radde de Candie, à bord de la Princesse, le 27 Juin, 1669:—Manuscripts of the Imperial Library, Papiers Colbert, 153 bis. Unpublished document.
[203] The countersign was: “Louis and forward!”
[204] Rélation de ce qui s’est passé dans la sortie, &c., already quoted. This was the nephew, who became the famous Vendôme. He displayed on June 25, 1669, very great courage, and was rather seriously wounded.
[205] Le siège de Candie, manuscript of Philibert de Jarry:—Imperial Library.
[206] Letter from Colbert de Maulevrier to his brother Colbert. “At Candie, this Sunday, the last day of June, at five o’clock in the evening:”—Manuscripts, Imperial Library, Papiers Colbert, 153 bis.
[207] Rélation, &c., already quoted:—Archives of the Ministry of Marine.
[208] Rélation, &c., already quoted:—Archives of the Ministry of Marine.
[209] Mémoires de Saint-André-Montbrun, pp. 362, 363.
[210] Rélation de ce qui s’est passé en la sortie faite sur le camp des Turcs du côté de la Sablonnière, la nuict du 24ᵉ au 25ᵉ Juin, 1669, en Candie:—Archives of the Ministry of War, 238. “M. l’Amiral remained abandoned by all his marines, and did not have a single one of his guards with him.”
[211] Relation, &c., already quoted:—Archives of the Ministry of Marine.
[212] Navailles, despairing of being able to save Candia, re-embarked his troops at the end of August, and set sail on the 31st; but as we are only occupied here with Beaufort, there is no need to relate the end of an expedition which the disaster of June 25 had caused to miscarry.
[213] Manuscripts of the Imperial Library, Papiers Colbert, 153 bis.
[214] This was of course during the battle.
[215] Archives of the Ministry of War, 238.
[216] Rélation, &c., already quoted:—Archives of the Ministry of Marine.
[217] Manuscripts of the Imperial Library, Papiers Colbert, Rapport adressé par le sieur Brodart à Colbert, &c., already quoted. [The biographies of the Duke de Beaufort say it was commonly believed at the time that, according to the barbarous custom of the Turks, his dead body was beheaded by them, which would account for its not having been found on the field of battle.—See Biographie Universelle of Michaud, &c.—Trans.]