There was no time for old thoughts, memories, surmises.

That was one world and he was now in another.
Upon the eleventh day of May, the year 1745, was fought in Flanders the battle of Fontenoy.

The Duke of Cumberland, Koenigsegge the Austrian, and the Dutch Prince of Waldeck had the handling of something under fifty thousand English.

Marshal Saxe with Louis XV at his side wielded a somewhat larger number of French.

The English and their allies were beaten.