glauh, were deemed too swampy to be passable. The ob-
served also, that the ground on the hither side, as far as
Unterglauh, was sufficiently high to protect the passage of
the rivulet, but that the plain beyond the farther bank, on
which the troops must form for the attack, was commanded
by the eminence occupied by the enemy. To these peculi-
arities they adapted their plan.

The morning being hitherto partially hazy, the Gallo-
Bavarians did not even suspect the approach of the enemy. ^*
Deceived by the intelligence which they had obtained from
the prisoners taken on the preceding evening, they detached
their cavalry to forage; and being persuaded that the allies
were falling back on Nordlingen, they considered the guard
which attended Marlborough and Eugene as a body of
cavalry pushed forward to cover this retrograde movement.
But at seven, the fog dispersing, the heads of Eugene's
columns were descried behind Berghausen, and the alarm
was instantly given. Signal guns were fired to recall the
foragers, and the advanced corps, committing Berghausen,
Schwenenbach, and Weilheim to the flames, fell back to the
main body. Confusion pervaded the lines, the artillery was
hurried forward, and the troops were observed hastening to
form at the head of the camp.

The Gallo-Bavarian army consisted of 56,000 men ^†

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