Batteries, from the other side, will command Dettingen. His plan of
operation is this:--

"By these Bridges he has passed 24,000 horse and foot across the
River, under his Nephew the chivalrous Duke of Grammont:
these, with due artillery and equipment, are to occupy the Village;
and to rank themselves in battle-order to leftward of it, on the
moor just mentioned,--well behind that hollow way, with its brook
and bogs;--and, one thing they must note well, Not to stir from
that position, till the English columns have got fairly into said
hollow way and brook of Dettingen, and are plunging more or less
distractedly across the entanglements there. With cannon on their
left flank, and such a gullet to pass through, one may hope they
will be in rather an attackable condition. Across that gullet it is
our intention they shall never get. How can they, if Grammont do
his duty?

"This is Noailles's plan; one of the prettiest imaginable, say
military men,--had the execution but corresponded. Noailles had
seized Aschaffenburg, so soon as the English were out of it;
Noailles, from his batteries beyond the River, salutes the English
march with continuous shot and thunder, which is very discomposing:
he sees confidently a really fair likelihood of capturing the
Britannic Majesty and his Pragmatic Army, unless they prefer to die
on the ground. Seldom, since that of the Caudine Forks, did any
Army, by ill-luck and ill-guidance, get into such a pinfold,--death
or flat surrender seemingly their one alternative.

"Thus march these English, that dewy morning, Thursday, June 27th,
1743, with cannon playing on their left flank; and such a fate