attack in the strong camp of Mont St. André. As this
ground is rendered memorable by a battle which decided the
fate of the Netherlands, we shall delineate its features, and
illustrate our description by a plan drawn from authentic
materials.

The most elevated part in the plains of Brabant is the
tract of land between the sources of the two Gheets, the
Mehaigne, and the Dyle. These streams, finding at first but
little descent, render the ground marshy towards their rise,
partially swampy along their whole course, and in some places
even impassable. The banks of the Great Gheet are steep;
those of the Mehaigne and Little Gheet less abrupt. The
ground, rising suddenly above them, forms a plain, the sur-
face of which is varied with gentle undulations, and dotted
with coppices. That portion which was the scene of conflict
is divided into two parts by the Little Gheet: the eastern is
called the plain of Jandrinœuil; the western, the position of
Mont St. André, from a village on the Gheet, which forms
nearly an equilateral triangle with Autreglise, or Anderkirk,
and the tomb of Ottomond. From this tomb, or barrow,
which crowns the highest point of the plain and overlooks
the marshes bordering the Mehaigne, the position extends as
far as Ramilies, near the head of the Little Gheet; and then,
following the marshy course of the rivulet, is continued to
the rising ground on which Offuz is situated. From Offuz,
bending forward on the left bank of the stream, it proceeds
along the verge of the eminence to Autreglise, where it ter-
minates in the fork made by the confluence of the Jauche
and the Little Gheet. ^*

When the heads of the allied columns had cleared the
village of Mierdorp, they diverged into the open plain of

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