The victorious horse being informed of this accident, pressed on them so vigorously that great numbers threw down their arms and submitted.

The pursuit was followed through Judoigne till two o'clock in the morning, five leagues from the field of battle, and within two of Louvaine.

In a word, the confederates obtained a complete victory.

They took the enemy's baggage and artillery, about one hundred and twenty colours or standards, six hundred officers, six thousand private soldiers, and about eight thousand were killed or wounded.* * The French impute the loss of this battle to the misconduct of Villeroy, who, it must be owned, made a most wretched disposition.

When he returned to Versailles, where he expected to meet with nothing else but reproaches, Louis received him without the least mark of displeasure, saying, "Mr.Mareschal, you and I are too old to be fortunate." Prince Maximilian and prince Monbason lost their lives; the major-general Palavicini and Mizieres were taken, together with the marquasses de Bar, de Nonant, and de la Beaume, (this last the son of the mareschal de Tallard,) monsieur de Montmorency, nephew to the duke of Luxembourg, and many other persons of distinction.