The Duke of Vendôme was so chagrined at this success, that he advanced with a numerous army to Oudenburg, posted his men along the canal between Plassendael and Nieuport, and caused the dykes to be cut in several places, in order to let in the sea, and lay a great extent of country under water. The TWELFTH, and other corps under Major-General Erle, were encamped on the high grounds of Raversein, and watched the enemy's movements; at length, the Duke of Marlborough put the covering army in motion, to attack the enemy, when the Duke of Vendôme made a precipitate retreat. The TWELFTH were afterwards employed in conveying another supply of ammunition and other necessaries, for the besieging army, across the inundations in boats, which enabled the generals of the allied army to continue the siege of Lisle, and insured the reduction of that fortress. The Duke of Vendôme sent a body of troops to besiege Leffinghen, which was captured after a short resistance; the enemy also menaced the camp at Raversein, when the TWELFTH, and other regiments under Major-General Erle, retired into the outworks of Ostend. The supplies furnished to the army, however, proved sufficient, and the citadel of Lisle surrendered on the 9th of December. [Sidenote: 1709] The service, for which the regiment was sent to Flanders having been accomplished, it returned to England in the early part of 1709, and was stationed in garrison at Portsmouth. [Sidenote: 1710] On the 4th of July, 1710, the regiments of Livesay (TWELFTH), and of Montandre, Lord Mark Kerr, and Windsor (afterwards disbanded), were reviewed at Portsmouth by Lieut.-General Erle. [Sidenote: 1711] The regiment was detained on home service in 1711. [Sidenote: 1712] Colonel Livesay was succeeded in the colonelcy of the regiment by Lieut.-Col. Richard Phillips, whose commission was dated the 16th of March, 1712. Being in an efficient state, the regiment was embarked for Spain, to reinforce the allied army in that country. In the summer of 1712, preliminary articles for a treaty of peace were agreed upon, which was followed by a cessation of hostilities, and the TWELFTH regiment proceeded to the island of Minorca, which had been captured by a body of troops under Major-General Stanhope in 1708. [Sidenote: 1713] Minorca was ceded to Great Britain by the treaty of Utrecht in 1713, and the TWELFTH regiment was one of the corps selected to form part of the garrison of that island. [Sidenote: 1717] Colonel Phillips was appointed to the command of the fortieth foot, on the formation of that regiment from non-regimented companies in America, and was succeeded in the colonelcy of the TWELFTH by Colonel Thomas Stanwix, from the thirtieth foot, whose commission was dated the 25th of August, 1717. [Sidenote: 1719] Having been relieved from duty at Minorca, in 1719, the regiment returned to England, where it arrived in October of that year. [Sidenote: 1722]