d four pieces of
cannon were mounted on a rising ground that flanked this village. The
French having likewise passed Landwernhagen, posted their left towards
the Fulde, their right extending far beyond the left of the allies, and
their front being strengthened with above thirty pieces of cannon.
At four in the afternoon the enemy began the battle with a severe
cannonading, and at the same time the first line of their infantry
attacked major-general Zastrow, who was posted on the left wing of the
allies. This body of the French was repulsed; but in the same moment, a
considerable line of cavalry advancing, charged the allies in front and
flank. These were supported by a fresh body of infantry with cannon,
which, after a warm dispute, obliged the confederates to give way; and
general Oberg, in order to prevent a total defeat, made a disposition
for a retreat, which was performed in tolerable order; not but that
he suffered greatly, in passing through a defile, from the fire of the
enemy's cannon, which was brought up and managed under the direction
of the duke de Broglio. Having marched through Munden by midnight,
the retiring army lay till morning under arms in the little plain near
Grupen, on the other side of the Weser; but at day-break prosecuted
their march, after having withdrawn the garrison from Munden, until they
arrived in the neighbourhood of Guntersheim, where they encamped.
In this engagement general Oberg lost about fifteen hundred men, his
artillery, baggage, and ammunition. He was obliged to abandon a magazine
of hay and straw at Munden, and leave part of his wounded men in that
place to the humanity of the victor. But, after all, the French general
reaped very little advantage from his victory.

DEATH OF THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.

By this time prince Ferdinand had retired into Westphalia, and fixed his
head-quarters at Munster, while M. de Contades encamped near Ham upon
the Lippe; so that, although he had obliged the French army to evacuate
Hanover and Hesse in the beginning of the year, when they were weakened
by death and distemper, and even driven them beyond the Rhine, where
they sustained a defeat; yet they were soon put in a condition to baffle
all his future endeavours, and penetrate again into Westphalia, where
they established their winter-quarters, extending themselves in such a
manner as to command the whole course of the Rhine on both sides, while
the allies were disposed in the landgra