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The great Duke then made a very remarkable march over the Neckar 
through the Suabian Alps to Mondelsheim where he met for the first 
time his future colleague, the already famous Prince Hugene. Advancing 
along, making a flank march past the Elector of Bavaria, whose lines were 
near Dillingen, he came to the Schellenberg, a hill north of Donawerth 
on the Danube, which is marked by a cross on the map of the series of 
operations. He there thoroughly routed a considerable portion of the 
Bavarian army; with such bravery did the British guards and other 
troops fight that the Hmperor of Germany (the old German Empire of 
which Austria was the head was terminated in 1806, and the Empire 
revived again in 1871 with Prussia at the head) sent him a congratulatory 
epistle in which he pointed out what a remarkable thing it was that 
Marlborough had been able to conduct the troops of England to victory 
in a territory where the name of England had never been heard before. 
Following up his success at Schellenberg, he passed the Danube south, 
near Donawerth, he then passed the Lech, near Rain. Rain has been a 
very important decisive point, it had previously been the scene of a victory 
by Scotch troops under Gustavus Adolphus. Having passed this river 
he wrote to the Elector of Bavaria asking him to give in, and offering 
liberal terms—but the Hlector, learning that troops were coming from 
the Rhine, refused to give up his alliance with France, whereupon 
Marlborough levied what he called military contributions on the 
Bavarians ; in other words, he proceeded to burn the villages up to 
the very walls of their capital. J have read many censures on such 
operations, and our American cousins and other philosophic humani- 
tarians stood aghast at the mention of great military executions of this 
kind before 1861. They were most eloquent in denouncing Marlborough 
and all his doings. I do not want to say a word against General 
Sherman, but General Sherman’s American friends never wrote a book 
on that text after he went marching through Georgia in 1864. his 
American leader did much worse things to his fellow countrymen than 
Marlborough did to the Bavarians. Now our hero was suddenly 
obliged to recall his troops from this business in Bavaria by the 
fact that Eugene had to fall back before Tallard who came through 
the Black Forest on to the Danube, and that the Elector brought 
his troops into line with Tallard’s. This led to the battle of 
Blenheim, one of the fifteen decisive battles of the world. There is a 
map of it here, and as I will not have time to dwell upon everything I 
just merely roughly sketch it on the board. ‘The position is so clearly 
set forth in the sketch map that I need not spend much time upon it. 
Observe the river Nebel, Blenheim itself, the marsh in the centre, the 
villages and woods on the left, the line of retreat, to Dillingen and the 
Danube. Hugene was sent round against the Hlector of Bavaria and 
Marsin to the right, Marlborough himself waited in the centre, and a 
general called Cutts, “Salamander” Cutts from the manner in which he 
stood fire, came on the left against Blenheim. Cutts was repulsed on the 
left. Hugene got on with difficulty and delay on the right. Marlborough 
had to wait till the pressure of Hugene was distinctly felt. ‘The French 
dispositions by Tallard were exceedingly bad. Mons. Fouquieres points 
out that Tallard made twelve distinct mistakes of the very grossest kind 
in this one battle (see Appendix). One of the principal of these was the 
