of Prince Eugene. The French army was almost entirely destroyed: of sixty thousand men, so long victorious, there never reassembled more than twenty thousand effective. About twelve thousand killed, fourteen thousand prisoners, all the cannon, a prodigious number of colours and standards, all the tents and equipages, the general of the army, and one thousand two hundred officers of mark in the power of the conqueror, signalized that day.” Recalling the effect of the great battle we may also call to mind the passage in which Addison describes it in his poem in laudation of Marlborough:-- “The rout begins, the Gallic squadrons run Compelled in crowds to meet the fate they shun. Thousands of fiery steeds with wounds transfixed Floating in gore, with their dead masters mixed, ’Midst heaps of spears and standards driv’n around, Lie in the Danube’s bloody whirlpools drowned. Troops of bold youths, born on the distant Saone, Or sounding borders of the rapid Rhone, Or where the Seine her flow’ry fields divides, Or where the Loire through winding vineyards glides, In heaps the rolling billows sweep away, And into Scythian seas their bloated corps convey. From Blenheim’s tow’rs the Gaul with wild affright, Beholds the various havoc of the fight.... With floods of gore that from the vanquished fell The marshes stagnate, and the rivers swell. Mountains of slain lie heaped upon the ground, Or midst the roarings of the Danube drowned.” The correct periods, the conventional epithets of the author of “The Campaign” somehow leave us less moved than does the simple episode presented by a later poet, for it must have been of the little Nebel stream that Southey was thinking when he wrote his simple satire on military glory in “The Battle of Blenheim”:-- “And everybody praised the Duke, Who this great fight did win.’ ‘But what good came of it at last?’ Quoth little Peterkin. ‘Why that I cannot tell,’ said he, ‘But ’twas a famous victory.’” The poet’s “Old Kaspar” had not had the advantage of studying history in the light of Alison, and his satire has, it is to be feared, had little effect on war. Indeed, two years after the ballad was first published, further fighting was to take place in this very neighbourhood, when in 1800 Moreau cut off the Austrians’ routes into Italy, and so facilitated Napoleon’s Italian campaign. At Donauwörth, on the left bank, we still have news of battle, for this old “free city” was stormed by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632 and was captured by King Ferdinand two years later, while it also played an important part in the preliminaries that led up to the battle of Blenheim, seeing that it was in this neighbourhood that Marlborough defeated the Bavarians and cut them off from their French allies. His own account of the engagement was sent to the States-General in the following terms: “HIGH AND MIGHTY LORDS.--