The allies had been defeated successively at Fleurus, Steenkirk, and Landen; yet in a fortnight after each of those battles William was always in a condition to risk another engagement.
Formerly Louis had conquered half of Holland, Flanders, and Franche-Comte, without a battle; whereas, now he could not with his utmost efforts, and after the most signal victories, pass the frontiers of the United Provinces.

The conquest of Charleroy concluded the campaign in the Netherlands, and both armies went into winter-quarters.
CAMPAIGN ON THE RHINE.
The French army on the Rhine, under De Lorges, passed that river in the month of May at Philipsburgh, and invested the city of Heidelberg, which they took, plundered, and reduced to ashes.

This general committed numberless barbarities in the Palatinate, which he ravaged without even sparing the tombs of the dead.

The French soldiers on this occasion seem to have been actuated by the most brutal inhumanity.

They butchered the inhabitants, violated the women, plundered the houses, rifled the churches, and murdered the priests at the altar.