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Show :tnd from thence he made a bold March to Syrk, in the fight of Monfieur Villars, who thought fit to retire to a fafe Poft, where he could not be attack'd, and left the Country open to the Confederates,quite to Saar-Le1/Jis ; of which they might have made the Siege, without any Oppofition. But all was defeat• ed by the Failure of Pr. Lewis ; tho' more Pains had been taken tO fix him to what had been agreed , than any one, that does not know the thing, can believe ; and the Duke was oblig'd to haft en back to Ffa,ders, where the French begun to aCl: : Which he did with that Succefs, that he oblig'd them ro raife the Siege of Liege, retook HllJ, forc'd the tines, defeated great part of their Army ; and had every body been as forward as his Grace on that Occ.'tfion, he had anticipated no little Part of the Glory of the next Campaign. All that was clone this Year in Fla11- Jers, gave the Duke no great hopes of doing much there the next. The Duke of Savoy, in the mean time, was r~duc'd to the !aft Extremity. This mad_eJrim not only perfuadc the Allies to fend tWO confiderable Reinforcements to him, but form the Delign of marching thither himfelf to his Relief. And nothing hindred his going, but that the Dutci> thought they fuould be too much expos'd bY li)s Abfence; who would not confent to the fending the 1 oooo He(fians to Savoy , but on Condition he would ftay with the Army in Flanders ; and God was pleas'd to blcfs hi; Zeal for the Common Caufe, by a moll: furprizing Vittory , when he had not the le~ ft Hopes of it. For who could have expctled t h~ [ •5 J the Fr:ncJ; \vo~ld quit th(! Dylt, th:.:y had bel!ti·· for Nl!;e or :I en Months fortifying, to giva: the Alhes the. Opportunity rhcy fo ·much ~anted @fa fa1r En~agemcnt? which ended tn the Reduction of the grcateft Part of the petberl~nds, which, as much as forgetting is m Fafh10n, I doubt not, bue honcft ·Men will remember. , Thus you fee for Fiv~ Campaigns of th~ \\ ar the .D. of ~1---- either did not aa in Fla•:tlert) ?r ell~ It Ollt of Ncccffitv and tnuch a~amit l~ts W1ll. So fenuble \viis he how chfficult 1t muft be to bring the War to a fp:e;ly End,, when t~e· chief Weight of it la) m a Country ~am!t which Franr;e .was [a well ?efonded. The Senle he had of this made h~m very unwilHng to en& fo great ~ Campa~gn as that of Ramelliu, without the Reduc'l:!On of lvfons, which he would fain have :~ade the Siege of, to frighten the Frencb mto a peace, or fecurc the rna-kino- a good War the 11ext Year ; which he forePaw he could no: be fure of without that• Conquell:, Iince lt wotlld be in the Power of rhe Enemy to avoid a Batte! if they pleas'i.l; and the Confederate Army would not be hig enough to make any great' Siege and cover Brab.171t m the Fame time. 'Fhis Apprehenlion ~ade the D---ke of M~-- earneft for t~e Slege, but th.c b:\linefs or the Weather at t e ~nd of the.Stege of Aetb made the J)utth ~frald 0 .f emx:ing upon fo gt'eat an Enterprize \·late m the Year. They who know any tt},g of the War, kno,v this to b, true · and .r lO e fr_om whom thde Clamo~lCS c~mc ' .kaow a gr<:at' d~al more ;' they knoW· his C 0!1t¥e |