Transcriber’s Notes: Underscores are used to enclose text in italics; the three words that end this sentence _are in italics_. Equals signs are used to enclose text in bold face; the four words that end this sentence =are in bold face=. The 291 footnotes in the source book have been changed into endnotes. Each endnote is labelled by a copy of its marker which consists of a number in square brackets. There are 439 sidenotes. Sidenotes are enclosed by black diamond symbols, for example, ◆July 24./Aug. 3.◆. Many of the 439 sidenotes consist of two dates, separated by a dash; the first date is taken from the Julian Calendar and the second from the Gregorian Calendar. The dates in such a pair differ by 10 days in the 17th century and by 11 days in the 18th century. BRITISH CAMPAIGNS IN FLANDERS [Illustration] MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA · MADRAS MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO DALLAS · SAN FRANCISCO THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO BRITISH CAMPAIGNS IN FLANDERS 1690–1794 BEING EXTRACTS FROM “A HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ARMY” BY THE HON. J. W. FORTESCUE MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN’S STREET, LONDON 1918 COPYRIGHT PREFACE This volume consists simply of extracts reprinted from my _History of the British Army_. It is published in order that the troops at the front may, if they wish it, study the experiences of their forerunners in the Low Countries in a book which is fairly portable and fairly inexpensive, though neither so cheap nor so compendious as _The British Soldiers’ Guide to Northern France and Flanders_. J. W. F. CONTENTS PAGE WILLIAM III.’S CAMPAIGNS 1–37 MARLBOROUGH’S CAMPAIGNS— 1701–2 38 1705 51 1706 (RAMILLIES) 62 1707–8 (OUDENARDE) 77 1709 (MALPLAQUET) 103 1711 122 WAR OF THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION—