The deputies of Zealand opposed this measure of sending their troops to stich a distance so strenuously, that the duke was obliged to tell them in plain terms he had received orders to march thither with the British forces.

He accordingly assembled his army at Maestricht, and on the eight day of May began his march into Germany.

The French imagined his intention was to begin the campaign with the siege of Traerbach, and penetrate into France along the Moselle.

In this persuasion they sent a detachment to that river, and gave out that they intended to invest Huy, a pretence to which the duke paid no regard.

He continued his route by Bedburgh, Kerpenord, Kalsecken; he visited the fortifications of Bonne, where he received certain advice that the recruits and reinforcements for the French army in Bavaria had joined the elector at Villigen.