A Relation in what manner the Island of Fuenen was upon the 30 of
January 1658, succesfully taken by his Majesty, the King of
Swethlands Forces.
WHereas his Majesty thought it expedient and necessary, to
undertake a certain design, sutable to the present necessities,
and to that effect, had called his principal Officers to Kiel, to confer
with them there, He thereupon himself in person departed from Wismar
upon the 5 of January, and arived at Kiel upon the 9 where he
met the Rix-Admiral, and Lieutenant General Wrangel, with other
General Officers, and entred into a serious and mature deliberation
and debate concerning the State of Affairs, whereof the result and
conclusion was this; that with Gods assistance a triall should be made
to get over into the Island of Fuenen, one way or other, whether the
frost should hold or no, so that insisting upon the same resolution, and
the frost holding on, his Majesty caused the said Rix-Admiral to advance
to Fredericks-Ode, to give order to those Regiments, that were in
Futland, and appointed for such an expedition, to draw together to
the said place for a Rendevouz there on the 26 of the same instant.
In the mean while his Majesty advanced as far as Halder Sleben, where
he had good Intelligence, that the Lieutenant General had caused the
Ice to be viewed beyond Fredericks Ode, not far from Webl, and on this
side of Assens, and found, that if the Frost should hold on 2 days
longer, a passage might be had in those parts; and receiving also further
Letters at Haderslehen, with certain Intelligence from the Adjutant
General Arensdorff, that not only a Corporal, which the
Lieutenant General had sent with 8 troopers from the village Amshlat,
as far as to the Point of Fuenen, called Isernas over against the Island
of Bromsoe, to try the strength of the Ice, had taken a party of the
Enemy there with 5 Troopers, but also that, when the Lieutenant
General, upon such Intelligence had commanded the said Arensderff
with 50 Horse, and 100 Foot-Soldier towards the said Island of
Bromsoe, to set Foot thereon, and to discover the place, where the Enemy
got over, had found the said Island deserted, it was a sufficient
ground to beleeve, that the Ice from that Island to Fuenen was so
strong, that it would serve to carry the said Party with the Prisoners
back again.
Upon this Intelligence, the Rix-Admiral caused also the Regiments
to break up, and to be quartered over against the Strand, between
Hadereben and Coldingen, and he himself in person following with
the Infantry took his Head quarter at Heissen, causing Lieutenant
Colonel Baber to set foot on the said Island Bromsoe with 100 horse,
and 100 dragoons, who in the night commanded a Corporal with
five horse towards Fuenen, to view the place; but as he came within