Every where else the military operations of the year were languid and without interest.

The Grand Vizier and Lewis of Baden did little more than watch each other on the Danube.

Marshal Noailles and the Duke of Medina Sidonia did little more than watch each other under the Pyrenees.

On the Upper Rhine, and along the frontier which separates France from Piedmont, an indecisive predatory war was carried on, by which the soldiers suffered little and the cultivators of the soil much.

But all men looked, with anxious expectation of some great event, to the frontier of Brabant, where William was opposed to Luxemburg.
Luxemburg, now in his sixty-sixth year, had risen, by slow degrees, and by the deaths of several great men, to the first place among the generals of his time.