Bantzaw, passing the rivulet, advanced into the plain and drove before him several squadrons of the enemy.

In this attack the electoral prince of Hanover, his late majesty George IL, charged at the head of Bulau's dragoons with great intrepidity.

His horse was shot under him, and colonel Laschky killed by his side.

Divers French regiments were entirely broken, and a good number of officers and standards fell into the hands of the Hanoverians.

The confederates continued still passing the river, but few or none of the infantry were come up till five in the afternoon, when the duke of Argyle arrived with twenty battalions, which immediately sustained a vigorous assault from the enemy.