Strong entrenchments had been thrown up round our position, but these were not altogether completed.
Blenheim, moreover, had been surrounded by very heavy and strong palisades, altogether impassable by infantry, and, as the allies could not hope to get cannon across the stream and swamps, it seemed to defy any attack.

From Oberglau the army of Marshal de Marcin and the Elector stretched to the village of Lutzingen.

We had some five-and-twenty cannon at Oberglau.
"The weak point, as it afterwards turned out to be, was the crest between us and Blenheim.

Considering that both the artillery and musketry fire from both villages swept the slope, and as in numbers we equalled the enemy, it was thought well-nigh impossible for him to cross the swamps and advance to the attack; and almost the whole of the French cavalry were massed on the crest, in order to charge them, should they succeed in crossing and try to ascend the slope.
"At first the battle went altogether favourably.

We had opposite to us the English, Dutch, Hanoverians, and Danish troops under Marlborough, while facing our left were Prussians, Imperialists, and other German troops under Eugene.