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possessed more talents, but luckily no 
Prudence. 
Had they exercised patience, without 
fighting me, they would have obliged me 
to abandon Bavaria, for [ had no place: 
in that country where £ could form my 
magazines, except Nordlingen; but these 
gentlemen were ina great hurry, and the 
¢lector was furious at the plunder which 
I hiad suffered Marlborough to make, and. 
who, in consequence, became my firm 
friend. We sincerely loved aud esteemed 
each other. He was indeed a great 
statesman and warrior. 
They had eighty thousand men, and 
80 had we. Why did the French se- 
parate from the Bavarians? Why did 
they encamp so far from the rivulet 
which would have embarrassed us in the 
attack? Why did they place twenty- 
seven battalions and twelve squadrons in 
Blenheim? Why did they scatter so 
many troops in other villages? Marlbo- 
rough was more fortunate than I in his 
passage of the rivulet, and his fine at- 
ack. A little ascent occasioned m 
being half an hour later. My infantry 
behaved very weil, but my cavalry very 
ill. I had a horse killed under me. 
Marlborough was checked, but not re- 
pulsed. I succeeded in rallying the re- 
giments, which were shy at first, and led 
them four times to the charge. Marl- 
borough, with his infantry and artillery, | 
and sometimes with his cavalry, cleared 
away that of the enemy, and took Blen. 
heim. We were beaten for a moment 
by the gendarmerie, but at length we 
threw them into the Danube. I was 
under the greatest obligations to Marl- 
borough for his changes of disposition 
according to circumstances. A Bava- 
rian dragoon took aim at me; one of my 
Danes fortunately anticipated — him. 
We lost 9,000 men; but 12,800 
French killed, and 20,800 taken prison- 
ers, prevented them this time from sing. 
ing their usual Te Deum for their de- 
feats, which they never acknowledge. 
The poor elector, with his corps, joined 
Villeroy, who-bad marched to favour his 
retreat. They mournfully embraced. 
“‘T have sacrificed my dominions for the 
king,” said the first, “ and I am ready 
to sacrifice my life for him.” ‘} he duke 
and prince, (for Marlborough was now 
created a prince of the Empire,) Louis 
of Baden, and I, went to amuse ourselves 
at Stuttgard. The second rook Landau, 
the first Trarbach, uhile I narrowly 
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missed the two Brisachs: the one because 
the governor of Fribourg niistook his 
way, and the other from the false de- 
licacy of the lieutenant-colonel, whom I 
had directed to enter as a courier with 
the others, and who being unable to 
endtre a caning from an overseer of the 
works of the place, ordered him to be 
fired upon. ‘This was indeed insisting 
very unseasonably on a point of honour, 
and the only occasion on which a man 
might, without disgrace, receive a thresh« 
ing. Wad we succeeded, he would 
rather have been envied than reproached 
for it. I proceeded to Ingolstadt, which 
was on the point of surrendering, but 
was prevented by the valour of a French 
regiment, composed of brave deserters 
in the Bavarian .service. Vhey disre= 
garded alike my promises and my threats: 
but astonishing them by the generous 
offer of sending them home under an 
escort, that nothing might happen to 
them, they evacuated Ingolstadit; and 
with the exception of Munich, all Bae 
varia was our’s, thanks to the treaty 
which I concluded with the electress. 
The conditions were hard; sbe refused 
them; but by means of father Schuh- 
macher, a good Jesuit, her confessor, I 
prevailed on her to sigu them, and set 
out for Vienna. 
1708.—On the 31st of March I was ate 
Dresden, and obtained a promise of king 
Augustus to send me a body of his troops. 
I then went to Hanover, and received 
the same promise from the elector. I 
proceeded to the Hague, where with 
all my heart I embraced Marlborough, 
who had come tiither on the same busi= 
ness. We both pressed Heinsius and 
Fagel for assistance; assuring them, that 
to. prevert the enemy from laying siege 
to the strong places, we would gain a 
battle as speedily as possible. I aps 
peased, as well asT could, those gentle- 
‘men, who were dissatisfied, because the 
emperor had not made peace with the 
Hufgarian rebels, nor appropriated to 
his own use the revenues of Naples, the 
Milanese, and Bavaria. I went next ta 
Dusseldorf, to pacify the Elector Pala- 
tine, who was likewise angry with the 
emperor Joseph 1. respecting the Upper 
Palatinate. Jreturned to Hanover with 
Marlborough, to press the elector; went 
to Leipsic to urge king Augustus, whom [ 
found there, once more; and after pro- 
ceeding to Vienna to give an account of 
my successful negociations, I was imme- 
E diately 
