. History of the late war in the Netherlands : together with an abstract of the Treaty of Utrecht . COMPLEAT HISTORY CK. \ OF THE Campaign, In the Year, 171 !• H E Advantages obtained in the Prece- ANNOding Campaign in the Nethcrlnnds, by talcing of DO WAY, BETHVNE, (./y^AI^E, and , were fo-coniiderable , that the Confederateswere re{«lvd, if poflible, to Improve* their late Conquefts, and to profecutethe WA R with the utmoft Vigour. In order thereto,the Duke of Mar/borough, on the 18th of February, em- The Duk?barkd for Holland,znd arrivd at the Hague, the 4th of ^^JjfJ^^Mar
. History of the late war in the Netherlands : together with an abstract of the Treaty of Utrecht . COMPLEAT HISTORY CK. \ OF THE Campaign, In the Year, 171 !• H E Advantages obtained in the Prece- ANNOding Campaign in the Nethcrlnnds, by talcing of DO WAY, BETHVNE, (./y^AI^E, and , were fo-coniiderable , that the Confederateswere re{«lvd, if poflible, to Improve* their late Conquefts, and to profecutethe WA R with the utmoft Vigour. In order thereto,the Duke of Mar/borough, on the 18th of February, em- The Duk?barkd for Holland,znd arrivd at the Hague, the 4th of ^^JjfJ^^March; where he was daily in Conference with thebar\sfortbsDeputies of the States, to concert the Operations of Hague,the enfuing CAM PA IGN. And, it being judgd aMatter of the higheft Importance to be in the Fieldbefore the Enemy ; it wasrefolvd to caufe Detachmentsfrom all the Garrifons, to Canton along the Scarpe, and Z 4 between. V- 344 A Ccnipfeat HISTORY ANNO between that River and the Canal of Doxvay, whereby1711, a great Body might in a few Hours be Formd, and be^./V*^ in a Readinefs to March ; which was with great Dili-gence put in Execution, under the Direction of Lieute-iiant-Gencral Cndognn; and fuch Care was taken toconceal the Numbers of thcfe Detachments, that theEnemy could have no Account of it. At the fametime, vaft Magazines were providing at Tournay, from•whence Provifions, and other Neceflaries, v/ere to befcnt up the Scheld, and the Scnrfe^ to Doway, for theSubfiftancc of the Troops: And, on the other Hand,the French Forces began about the middle of yij)ril, toaffcmble near Cnmhrny and Arras. The Duke of Marl-borough, having Advice that Marefchal Villars was ex-peded at one of thofe Places, on the 25 th of April(N. S.) he fet out from the H^gue, the 23d of the fameMonth, and arrivd at Tournay the 26th, near whichPlace, the Troops were encampd in feveral Grace having held a^ Counc
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