![]() ![]() … He charged himself, in several places, and was in the midst of the most imminent dangers many being shot round about him with the enemies cannon, and himself escaping no less than three musket shots, one through is peruke which deafened him for some time, another through the sleeve of his coat, and a third, which carried off the knot of his scarf, … the Prince of Conti, in an intercepted letter to him declared, ‘I saw the King exposing himself to the greatest dangers and surely so much valour very well deserved the peaceable possession of the crown he wears.‘ … Lieutenant-General Talmash brought off the English foot with great prudence, bravery, and success …” The order of these sentences follows Sterne's narrative and is not Tindal's. … The King himself charged at the head of Lord Galway's regiment. There was now nothing but confusion and disorder in the Confederates camp … The King did what he could to remedy this disorder, riding to the left to bring up the English horse for the relief of the right wing. And now Tindal, iii, 240: “The King, seeing the battle lost, … ordered the regiments of Wyndham, Lumley, and Galway to cover his retreat over the bridge at Neerhespen, which he gained with great difficulty. ![]()
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