recollections which it inspired, the description of the surrounding country is principally owing. The notes taken on the spot, compared with the original plan by captain Bruckman, an engineer in the service of the elector of Hanover, and present at the battle, and a memoir by the same officer in the king's library, together with an enlarged sketch from Feraris, have served for the construction of the new plan.
The plan of the movements of Marlborough during the siege of Lille, is chiefly drawn from Cassini and Feraris; and the positions are indicated from the letters and papers of the british commander.
The general view of the operations, from the surrender of Tournay to the battle of Malplaquet, is copied and reduced from Feraris and Cassini, and corrected from notes taken on the spot.
The plan of the battle of Malplaquet, is drawn from a superb plan in the king's library, compared with those of captain Bruckman and others, as well as with an excellent sketch of the vicinity of Mons, from the Austrian quarter-master-general's department. It was corrected and improved from a personal examination of part of the field of battle, and with the preceding, may, therefore, be pronounced accurate, even in the minutest details.