His people interested themselves in the glory of their monarch.

They exclaimed against the cruelty and arrogance of his enemies.

Though impoverished and half-starved by the war, they resolved to expend their whole substance in his support; and rather to fight his battles without pay, than leave him in the dire necessity of complying with such dishonourable terms.

Animated by these sentiments, they made such efforts as amazed the whole world.

The preliminaries being rejected by the French king, Rouille was ordered to quit Holland in four-and-twenty hours; and the generals of the confederates resolved to open the campaign without further hesitation.
THE ALLIED ARMY TAKE TOURNAY.
Prince Eugene and the duke of Marlborough proceeded to Flanders, and towards the end of June the allied army encamped in the plain of Lisle, to the number of one hundred and ten thousand fighting men.