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I am going to drive your enemies so far that they shall not again see the banks of the Scheldt; and by a battle on my arrival, to regain all that has been taken from your majesty.

— Claude Louis Hector de Villars

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A general has to expose his life as much as he exposes the lives of others.

In war everything depends upon being able to deceive the enemy; and having once gained this point, in never allowing him time to recover himself.

The most shameful, humiliating and disastrous of routs.

If God lets us have the grace of losing such a battle again, Your Majesty can count on all of his enemies being destroyed.

Fortify your towns, and above all the Schellenberg, that fort above Donauworth, the importance of which the great Gustavus taught us.

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