and animated with heroic courage, an opportunity was offered him in the warlike expedition against the Turks in which the Prince was engaged, to gather those laurels in what the world calls “the field of glory,” to which he aspired; and, in several successive campaigns, he exhibited applauded proofs of chivalric gallantry and personal bravery.  By his attentive observation of the discipline, manner of battle array, onset of the forces, and the instruction given him in military tactics, he acquired that knowledge of the art of war, for which he afterwards became so distinguished.

At the battle of Peterwaradin, one of the strongest frontier places that Austria had against the Turks, Oglethorpe, though present, was not perhaps actively engaged.  It was fought on the 5th of August, 1716.  The army of the Turks consisted of 150,000 men, of which 40,000 were Janisaries, and 30,000 Saphis, or troopers, the rest were Tartars, Walachians, and the troops of Asia and Egypt.  The army of the Imperialists, under his Serene Highness, Prince Eugene, consisted of but little more than half that number.  The onset began at seven in the morning, and by twelve Eugene was writing to the Emperor an account of the victory in the tent of the Grand Vizier[1].

[Footnote 1:  Military History of Prince Eugene, of Savoy, (a superb work in two folio volumes, with elegant plates; compiled by CAMPBELL.) Lond. 1737.  Vol.  II. p. 215.  From this, and from “The Life and Military Actions of Eugene,” Lond. 1737, 12mo, the account of the battles is taken.]

After a sharp contest of about four hours, the Grand Vizier Hali, seeing the battle go against him, put himself at the head of his guard of horse, pushed through a defile, and made a very brisk charge; but his men could not sustain the contest; and he, having received two wounds, was carried off the field to Carlowitz, where he died the next day.  The Aga of the Janisaries and Mahomet Bassa were also slain.  The whole loss of the Turks in this action amounted to about 22,000; and of the Imperialists, 3,695 common soldiers, and 469 officers.  There was found in the camp 164 pieces of cannon, and a prodigious quantity of powder, bullets, bombs, grenades, and various military equipments and stores; and the booty in other articles was great and rich beyond computation.

The Imperial army passed the Danube on the 6th of August, “in order to avoid the infection of the dead bodies.”  The same day a council of war was held, in which the siege of Temeswaer was proposed and resolved on.  This is a town of Hungary, upon the river Temes, whence it has its name.  It lies five miles from Lippa, towards the borders of Transylvania, and about ten from Belgrade.  The Turks took it from the Transylvanians in 1552, and fortified it to a degree that they deemed it impregnable.  After several severe conflicts, and a most desperate resistance, it capitulated on the 14th of October, 1716, and the Turks entirely evacuated the place on