[9] The reader who may compare this account of Malplaquet with others will be the less confused if he remembers that the forest of Sars is called on that extremity nearest to the gap the wood of Blaregnies, and that this name is often extended, especially in English accounts, to the whole forest.
[10] These 9000 found at St Ghislain a belated post of 200 French, who surrendered. Someone had forgotten them.
[11] For the discussion of this see later on p. 75.
[12] They were commanded by Hamilton and Tullibardine. It is to be remarked that the command of the whole of the left of the Prince of Orange's force, though it was not half Scotch, was under the command of Hamilton and Douglas. The two regiments of Tullibardine and Hepburn were under the personal command of the Marquis of Tullibardine, the heir of Atholl.
[13] Nominally under Tilly, but practically under the young Royal commander.
[14] Villars, wounded and fainting with pain, had been taken from the field an hour or two before, and the whole command was now in the hands of Boufflers.
Passages in italics are indicated by _underscore_.
The misprint "Schulenberg" has been corrected to "Schulemberg" (page 70).
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