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the english post failed to mention the surrender at all at least that i could find in my quick search while the post boy has only a passing reference in an unrelated news item but the lack of coverage shouldn t be too surprising stevensweert was a relatively minor siege as is suggested by the frequency with which reporting on the siege was combined with news of the near contemporary siege of roermond ruremond the above reports also offer slightly different perspectives letters from the army camp themselves reporting news received from the siege camp before the town and a letter written in london summarizing several accounts from the army camp there were four english regiments serving at the siege but apparently none of them wrote accounts back home or at least not to people who could quickly put them in the papers for comparison we can see how this minor siege was treated in other accounts published soon after first a campaign journal from 1704 a short but impartial account of the most remarkable occurrences and transactions of the two last campaigns in the netherlands provides the most detailed treatment the 16th lieutenant general count noyell the right honourable earl of orkenay major general brigadier withers with the honourable lieutenant general stewart s regiment and collonel howe s were detached to the siege of stevenswaert a small town but naturally strong being surrounded with the river maese here very rapid besides all that such scituation might make requisite art fully supply d the 18th our batteries play d and on the 20th it surrender d the garrison consisting of two batallions this siege was carry d on by barron troigny ingeneer the loss we sustain d at both towns was inconsiderable this journal was intended as a self standing campaign narrative thus spent more time setting up the relative strength of the town while truncating the details of the siege itself as is often the case this english account only bothered to mention the english pay regiments participating in the siege its identification of the engineer trognée by name is relatively rare among english accounts another journal an exact journal of the actions of the allies this campaign in flanders published 1703 disposed of stevensweert by merely mentioning that it withstood twelve days of siege other published summaries of the 1702 campaign spanned hundreds of pages yet spent even less time on stevensweert abel boyer s history of the reign of queen anne for 1702 published 1703 included only the briefest summary of the siege stevenswaert a fortified place seated on the maese about 5 miles from ruremond to the south was taken also by capitulation david jones a compleat history of europe for 1702 was equally dismissive of the event during the siege of ruremond stevenswaert a town strongly fortified and standing upon the maes about five miles from ruremond to the south was also taken by capitulation upon honourable conditions much to the same effect with those that are usually given in the like cases and so we need not repeat them in this place the present state of europe paper essentially an english version of the semi official dutch europische mercurius monthly used jones wording almost exactly indicating another connection between that newspaper and later accounts whether this borrowing was approved or not plagiarism was rife in the period boyer s history of the reign of queen anne published 1715 justified his compilation with the complaint that others had made free with about two thirds of my history of king william without either a compliment to me or the least alteration to palliate the plagiarism for contrast our personal correspondence provides more insight into the opinions of our subjects than what is available in most official news accounts adam cardonnel s note to the under secretary of state dated 2 october is one example possibly even the cover letter under which our original newsletter was sent i am very glad to send you now the good news of the taking of stevensweert which might have held out for a great deale longer if they had had a competent garrison here we seem to have an interesting little tidbit about cardonnel s view of the competency of the garrison s defense but not so fast in a separate letter to blathwayt secretary at war on the same day cardonnel clarifies what he likely meant by competent garrison i e a sufficient one an earlier letter also noted the small size of the garrison not quite an example of an early modern archaism but another reminder nonetheless to look at several versions before reading too much into the specific language used in one account sometimes the letters sent out to different recipients on the same day are the same but sometimes they have minor differences that might be of significance we could continue on doing what historians do track down other accounts of the siege in the various archives not only english but dutch french and spanish we would need to do so if we hoped to answer the broad questions that started this post but what we can conclude from this random example is that the relationship between archival and contemporary published accounts is not as clear cut as one might expect at first glance archival documents if sent to the right person could be quickly published in order to quench the english public s thirst for news perhaps they were even drafted for a broad public audience and their content might be further modified in the printing process broadening our scope it appears that englishmen and women who read widely encountered competing and overlapping views of the same event quite different sources would be needed to gauge the impact of these convergences and contradictions july 26 2012 in bibliography leave a comment article on 18c literary views of soldiers parkes simon wooden legs and tales of sorrow done the literary broken soldier of the late eighteenth century journal for eighteenth century studies online 15 june 2012 abstract the literary character of the broken soldier is a cathartic presence in much eighteenth century writing in works by authors such as oliver goldsmith henry mackenzie and robert bage we find the figure of the broken soldier as the smashed recipient of society s self conscious benevolence he is a sacrificial figure deflecting the realities of conflict and violence from the home front via his play acting and sanctioned tales the horrors of war that seep back into society are diffused by encounters with the broken soldier allowing echoes of violence to be contained within these literary texts and broken bodies literary scholars of the 18c sure have been active of late analyzing portrayals of military men in literature anybody know how we re supposed to cite these early view journal articles should we privilege the print version when it comes out july 23 2012 in bibliography 9 comments recent article on military finance swart erik the field of finance war and taxation in holland flanders and brabant ca 1572 1585 sixteenth century journal 42 winter 2011 1051 1071 abstract the dutch province of holland has solicited much research in the context of the link between war and political development an important theme in early modern historiography during the dutch revolt in the late sixteenth century it became the core and financial bedrock of a new powerful and very prosperous polity the dutch republic why flanders and brabant larger and traditionally wealthier failed where holland succeeded and were retaken by king philip ii s army has never been explained one difference was the structurally narrower political base in brabant and flanders compared to holland fewer people had a part and stake in the government but the main problem in the former provinces was a structural lack of finances from 1578 the war was right on top of them which made the collection of newly introduced taxes impossible and attempts at administrative reorganization fruitless war destroyed the tax base in brabant and flanders while holland s taxes were the foundation of its success july 22 2012 in methodology research 2 comments i read the news today hoo boy pt ii the volume of english newspapers from the decade 1702 1712 is almost overwhelming probably 20 000 or more data points once you count up the individual news stories yet one of the more humbling realizations from my recent archival jaunt was how much more information was coming into these figures than i had appreciated on top of the daily newspaper accounts from previous forays into the blenheim papers i had seen the vast amount of intelligence being sent to the duke of marlborough a dozen volumes of newsletters in addition to all of the incoming correspondence from identifiable individuals the duke was after all captain general of english forces and of the joint allied army under his command as well as master general of the english artillery as well as occasional coordinator of english diplomacy for the netherlands and germany as i prepared for my research trip however my investigations beyond the duke uncovered a number of other archival lodes many of which have been ignored by the marlborough literature the key i quickly learned was to investigate the biographies of the other english politicians of the era and it doesn t hurt that most of the british library s catalogues are full text searchable online john churchill was the military center of england s war effort certainly but he was not the only major english figure to profit from a network of agents theoretically anyone of means had their own network based off of patronage friendship and obligation most genteel folk back in england knew someone who was over the hills and far away and undoubtedly they received the occasional account of happenings over there the reports of the royal commission on historical manuscripts are full of such letters more robust were the networks created by those at the center of political power politicians and ministers in the cabinet particularly the secretaries of state and their under secretaries received incoming reports from a whole variety of diplomats and agents it appears that these networks were somewhat fragile however at least the voluntary correspondence dependent on the patron s position and its perks one can even on occasion pick up the trail across patrons witness the english agent in the netherlands who first offered his services to the earl of nottingham secretary of state for the southern department into 1703 and then when nottingham was put out of office and lost his ability to distribute largesse to his clients this agent offered his same services to a new secretary of state robert harley his son needed a job after all read more july 19 2012 in bibliography leave a comment boydell brewer titles as our previous analysis of ememh publishers would predict boydell s catalogue has a whole slew of titles i won t cite them all here but they range from books on medieval martial display 0n the battlefield possibly of relevance to our discussion of battlefield possession to the english press during the 30yw to early modern european armor and weapons july 8 2012 in methodology research 4 comments i read the news today oh boy pt i my recent explorations of england s military experience in the war of the spanish succession have been eye opening first my initial training in louisquatorzian france poorly prepared me for the plethora of documents created by late stuart england s vigorous public sphere early bibliographical works william morgan s a bibliography of british history 1700 1715 with special reference to the reign of queen anne and robert d horn s marlborough a survey panegyrics satires and biographical writings 1688 1788 gave us a glimpse of such riches but only a few scholars had the time and resources to attempt more than a sampling the explosion of digital sources both printed and manuscript has finally allowed historians today to actually catch up to these early bibliographical catalogs given enough time we can read more published material on the time period than almost all of those alive at the time were able to do we not only have access to a wide range of archives from many perspectives but also comprehensive collections of publications saved in disparate libraries around the world this isn t the same as truly understanding how contemporaries thought about every issue and leaves us particularly uncertain about the divergence between print and oral culture but it does allow us to reconstruct their worldview much more accurately and comprehensively than ever before but it also drowns us in information early modernists can now begin to appreciate what modern historians have always had to deal with the digital corpus i ve managed to accumulate over the past decade allows a quick quantification of the english materials dated between 1701 1712 read more july 3 2012 in miscellaneous 5 comments horsing around with scale bars apropos a previous post on the different measurement systems used in early modern cartography i just came across this example that is unique to me at least carte d une partie de piemont i m not positive but it looks like the top bar indicates the distance one can travel in an hour on horseback i e 2 heur es de ch eval of course it s annoying that they don t left justify the two bars so you can directly compare the 1 hour to the number of piemont milles other interpretations notice how the french text beneath the bars also lets the reader know that four piemont milles miles or thousands equal two french lieus leagues each of 2500 toises it ain t easy being an early modern july 2 2012 in miscellaneous 1 comment siege of the sexes it s always interesting to come across metaphors in historical research metaphors attempt to describe and explain a relationship or activity by associating the unknown or poorly known with an already known concept the simile s more sophisticated sibling a metaphor is inherently complex and one never knows quite how far to stretch it without exceeding the breaking point we ll talk about the war as sports metaphor in a later post they also require both sides to understand the known quantity in the same fashion and lest we forget metaphors should be shaken not mixed the metaphors people choose to employ therefore give us some insight into their period whether it be the body politic of the middle ages the clockwork metaphor of the early modern period the machine of the 19th or the digital computer of the late 20th century in previous posts we ve speculated on the intimate familiarity agricultural metaphors must have had for early moderns if you ve read christopher duffy s siege warfare you saw his discussion of various ways in which sieges and their technical terminology were used in other fields given that the period included interminable wars of religion and that the bible itself used a variety of military metaphors to depict the struggle between good and evil little surprise that contemporaries...