CHAPTER IV

Bassompierre sets out for Hungary to serve as a volunteer in the Imperial Army against the Turks--His journey to Vienna--He learns that the commander-in-chief of the army is General von Rossworm, a mortal enemy of the Bassompierre family--He is advised by his friends in Vienna to take service in the Army of Transylvania, instead of in that of Hungary, but declines to change his plans--He sups more well than wisely at Gran--His arrival in the Imperialist camp before Buda--Position of the hostile armies--Bassompierre is presented to Rossworm--He narrowly escapes being killed or taken prisoner by the Turks--He takes part in a fierce combat in the Isle of Adon, and has another narrow escape--He is reconciled with Rossworm--Massacre of eight hundred Turkish prisoners--Failure of a night-attack planned by the Imperialist general--Gallant but foolhardy enterprise of the Hungarians--The Turks bombard the Imperialist headquarters--Termination of the campaign--Bassompierre returns with Rossworm to Vienna.....pp. 38-49