God grant that your health may soon be quite restored.

These are great trials, which he has been pleased to send me in quick succession.
I must try to submit to his pleasure without murmuring, and to deserve his anger less." His forces rallied fast.

Large bodies of troops which he had, perhaps imprudently, detached from his army while he supposed that Liege was the object of the enemy, rejoined him by forced marches.

Three weeks after his defeat he held a review a few miles from Brussels.

The number of men under arms was greater than on the morning of the bloody day of Landen; their appearance was soldierlike; and their spirit seemed unbroken.
William now wrote to Heinsius that the worst was over.