[330] Marlborough's Despatches, vol. ii. p. 262.

[331] This is the story told in Lamberti.

[332] The ground, though now drained, is still very wet.

[333] I have described the field at some length, since the map given by Coxe is most misleading.

[334] Coxe, by a singular error, makes the left consist exclusively of infantry, in face of Quincy, Feuquières, the London Gazette and other authorities, thereby missing almost unaccountably an important feature in the action.

[335] Apparently the whole of Meredith's brigade, viz.: 1st, 18th, 29th, 37th, 24th, and 10th regiments. The place is still easily identifiable.

[336] Molesworth escaped and was rewarded four years later, at the age of twenty-two, with a regiment of foot.

[337]

Order of Battle. Ramillies, 12th-23rd May 1706.
Left. Right Wing only. Right.
1st Line.
Foreign Infantry.3rd Buffs.1 Batt. 1st Guards.1st Dragoon Guards.Scots Greys.
21st Royal Scots Fusiliers.1 Batt. Royal Scots.5th Dragoon Guards.5th Royal Irish Dragoons.
Evans's Foot.16th Foot.7th Dragoon Guards.
Macartney's Foot.26th Cameronians.6th Dragoon Guards.
Stringer's Foot.28th Foot.3rd Dragoon Guards.
15th Foot.23rd Royal Welsh.Eighteen Dutch Squadrons.
8th Foot.
2nd Line.
Foreign Infantry.2nd Batt. Royal Scots.Foreign Cavalry.
18th Royal Irish.
29th Foot.
37th "
24th "
10th "

From Kane's Campaigns.