"There is a black mass issuing from the village of Oycke, and ascending the hill in the direction of Royegham.

It is too late to reinforce Grimaldi there.

They will be upon him before we can cross the Norken.

But, at any rate, we must send a brigade down to Henhelm, where, with Grimaldi's men, they can try to keep open the road from Diepenbeck." Ten minutes later they could hear, by a sudden outburst of fire, that Grimaldi was engaged.

The sun had already set, but Berwick was able to make out, with his glass, that the left was giving way before the attack of Eugene, and that the twenty battalions under Argyle, which had hitherto remained inactive, were advancing by the main road leading, through Mullen, to the plateau on which they stood.
"The day is lost," Berwick said bitterly.