The regiment quitted its winter quarters at Ghent, on the 14th of April, 1710, and marched to the rendezvous of the army near Tournay. The services of the FIFTEENTH foot were this year connected with the forcing of the French lines at _Pont-à-Vendin_, and with the siege and capture of _Douay_, which fortress surrendered on the 27th of June. They subsequently formed part of the covering army encamped at Villars-Brulin, during the siege of _Bethune_. This place having surrendered on the 29th of August, and the French army avoiding a general engagement, the fortresses of _Aire_ and _St. Venant_ were invested, and taken; and these conquests were the last important events of the campaign. After taking part in these services, the regiment marched into quarters at Courtray, where it was stationed during the winter. [Sidenote: 1711] Towards the end of April, 1711, the regiment advanced from Courtray, and joining the army near Douay, was formed in brigade with the foot guards, a battalion of the royals, and the twentieth and twenty-third regiments. It was reviewed on the 8th of June, at the camp at Warde, by the Duke of Marlborough; and afterwards took part in the skilful operations by which the enemy's formidable and newly constructed lines were passed at _Arleux_, on the 5th of August; and this success was followed by the siege of _Bouchain_, a fortified town of Hainault, situate on both sides of the river Scheldt. The regiment formed part of a division of twenty battalions of infantry, commanded by Lieut.-General the Earl of Orkney, which took post on the north and north-west side of the town and river; and it shared in the duties of the trenches, and in carrying on the attacks, in which services it had several men killed and wounded. The garrison agreed to surrender on the 13th of September. Thus the French monarch found his armies defeated and dispirited; his fortresses wrested from him, and the victorious legions of the allies prepared to penetrate the interior of his kingdom; and he sued for peace. [Sidenote: 1712] In the spring of 1712 the FIFTEENTH regiment took the field with the army under the Duke of Ormond, who had been appointed to the command in succession to the Duke of Marlborough, and advanced to the frontiers of France. Negociations for peace having commenced, a suspension of hostilities took place between the British and French, and the regiment returned to Ghent; from whence it was afterwards removed to Dunkirk, the French monarch having agreed to deliver up that fortress until the treaty of peace was concluded. [Sidenote: 1713] [Sidenote: 1714] The regiment was stationed at Dunkirk in 1713, and at Nieuport in the early part of 1714. While the regiment was in Flanders, the decease of Queen Anne, and the accession of King George I., occurred, on the 1st of August, 1714, and soon afterwards the FIFTEENTH foot, and several other corps, were ordered to return to England. [Sidenote: 1715]