The Major-General said that "He had an invention, that the enemy should not perceive him, till he had his hands upon the stockadoes."
Next, his Excellency said, "For the signal, there shall be a captain of Monsieur la Ferté's, with 20 Firelocks: who shall leap upon the Point, and cry, Sa! Sa! Vive le Roi de France!" and upon that noise all were to fall on together.
But Major-General Morgan opposed that signal, saying, "The enemy would thereby be alarmed, and then he should hardly endure their firing."
His Excellency replied then, that "He would give no signal at all! but the Major-General should give it!" and he would not be persuaded otherwise.
Then the Major-General desired his Excellency that he would give order to them in the approaches, to keep themselves in readiness against sunset; for at the shutting of the night he would fall on. He likewise desired his Excellency that he would order a Major out of his own approaches, and another out of Monsieur la Ferté's approaches to stand by him, and when he should be ready to fall on, he would despatch the two Majors into each of the approaches, that they might be ready to leap out when the Major-General passed between the two approaches with the commanded English.
Just at sunset, Marshal Turenne came himself, and told the Major-General "He might fall on, when he saw his own time."
The Major-General replied, "He would fall on just at the setting of the night, and when the dusk of the evening came on."
The Major-General made the English stand to their arms, and divided them into Bodies; a Captain at the head of the Pioneers, and the Major-General and a Colonel at the head of the two Battalions.
He ordered the two battalions and the pioneers, each man, to take up a long fascine upon their muskets and pikes; and then, they were three small groves of wood!