orsoi

Updated: May 31, 2025

The Dutch troops, too weak to defend so extensive a frontier, were scattered into so many towns, that no considerable body remained in the field and a strong garrison was scarcely to be found in any fortress Lewis passed the Meuse at Viset; and laying siege to Orsoi, a town of the elector of Brandenburgh's, but garrisoned by the Dutch, he carried it in three days.

David Hume - The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F.: From Charles II. to James II.