[197] Letters of Saint-André-Montbrun:--Manuscripts of the Imperial Library. Letters from Navailles to the King:--Archives of the Ministry of Marine. [198] Letter from Navailles to the King, July 5, 1669. [199] Letter from Delacroix to Louvois, June 22, 1669:--Archives of the Ministry of War. [200] The Marquis de Saint-André-Montbrun, a French nobleman, had been for several years in Candia, and by his courage and talents had finished by becoming, under Morosini, the chief general of the Venetians. [201] _Rélation de ce qui s’est passé dans la sortie qui s’est faite en Candie par toutes les troupes du roy, tant de terre que de mer, pour l’attaque du camp de la Sablonnière, le 25 du mois de Juin, 1669:_--Archives of Ministry of Marine, Campagne 3. In my account I have chiefly followed this unpublished manuscript, which has every sign of authenticity. [202] _Rapport adressé par le sieur Brodart à Colbert, à la radde de Candie, à bord de la Princesse, le 27 Juin, 1669:_--Manuscripts of the Imperial Library, _Papiers Colbert_, 153 _bis_. Unpublished document. [203] The countersign was: “Louis and forward!” [204] _Rélation de ce qui s’est passé dans la sortie_, &c., already quoted. This was the nephew, who became the famous Vendôme. He displayed on June 25, 1669, very great courage, and was rather seriously wounded. [205] _Le siège de Candie_, manuscript of Philibert de Jarry:--Imperial Library. [206] Letter from Colbert de Maulevrier to his brother Colbert. “At Candie, this Sunday, the last day of June, at five o’clock in the evening:”--Manuscripts, Imperial Library, _Papiers Colbert_, 153 _bis_. [207] _Rélation_, &c., already quoted:--Archives of the Ministry of Marine. [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.