their measures of defence. To those who suggested their
fears or doubts, he replied, "Either the enemy will escape
or will have time to finish their works. In the latter case,
the delay of every single hour will cost the loss of a thousand
men."

After another conference with the margrave, Marlborough
with his usual humanity gave orders to establish an hospital
for the wounded at Nordlingen. He also selected a detach-
ment of 130 men from each battalion, amounting to 6000
foot and thirty squadrons of horse, to which were added
three regiments of imperial grenadiers, furnished by Prince
Louis. This detachment was to precede the army, and
commence the attack. Measures were also taken for opening
the roads and throwing bridges across the Wernitz, a deep
and rapid stream which flows into the Danube about a mile
from the foot of the Schellenberg.

Such being the preparatory arrangements of the evening,
the detachment moved at three in the morning on the 2d of
July, under the direction of the duke himself, and at five
was followed by the army, which filed by the left in two
columns along the main road, leading through Roerbach
towards a height between Obermorgen and Weinstein. At
the same time the baggage and artillery, in two columns,
took the route through Monachdeckingen to Harburg on the
Wernitz, where it was to wait for farther orders.

About eight the advance with the quarter-master-general
came in sight of the Schellenberg. They halted at Ober-
morgen, and immediately began to mark out a camp for the
army on the left bank of the Wernitz.

At nine Marlborough himself reached the spot; accom-
panied by the officers who were to command in the attack,
he proceeded to reconnoitre the enemy's position, and being
observed, was saluted with a heavy cannonade from different
points of their works.

The Schellenberg is a height overhanging Donawerth and
the left bank of the Danube. It rises in a gradual though
unequal ascent, which at the intended point of attack was
about a quarter of a mile. The summit forms a flat space,
half a mile wide, on which the enemy were encamped in
several lines. Their left was supported on the covert way
of Donawerth, and their order being adapted to the figure of

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