[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.]