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Updated: May 6, 2025
"I thought it more advantageous for my designs, and less common on the score of glory," he wrote to Colbert on the 31st of May, "to attack four places at once on the Rhine, and to take the actual command in person at all four sieges... . I chose, for that purpose, Rheinberg, Wesel, Burick, and Orsoy, and I hope that there will be no complaint of my having deceived public expectation."
He himself summoned the town of Rhynberg, the Duke of Orleans sat down before Orsay, Conde was commanded to reduce Wesel, and Turenne, Burick. All surrendered within a week. To give an account of the capture of the towns which followed, would be but to heap example upon example of cowardice or treachery, or as they are generally found together both.
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