ABSTRACT
The topic of the present paper stands in need of both an introduction and a justification. The thesis was eventually completed, and under a somewhat less than stimulating title was duly submitted for examination. In a negative sense it might be argued that the war in the east was of relatively minor significance, compared with the urgent problems posed by the settlement in England and the need to weld together an effective coalition in the west against France. The Ottoman courier who had been despatched to the Porte in June by Zulfikar Efendi, returned to Vienna in November after suffering many delays on the road, and was sent on to Augsburg, where the imperial court was assembled for the election of the Emperor’s eldest son Joseph as King of the Romans. The news of Hussey’s death took its time to reach Flanders. At Vienna things were little better. Harbord had arrived at Vienna in February 1692.
