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 shifted to Antwerp. But by this time the requests for the return of troops to England had become urgent and imperative orders. First ten battalions were

recalled, then the rest of the foot, and at last practically the whole of the army, including Cumberland himself. The cause was the Jacobite rebellion which was stamped out by the victory of Culloden in April 1746.

[—The official account of Fontenoy was drawn up by Ligonier in French and translated into English, with some omissions, for publication. The French version is far the better and will be found in the State Papers. The account in the Life of the Duke of Cumberland is poor, though valuable as having been drawn up from the reports of the English Generals. Of the French accounts Voltaire's is the best known, and, as might be expected from such a hand, admirably spirited. More valuable are the accounts in the Conquête des Pays Bas, in the Mémoires du Maréchal de Saxe, where Saxe's own report may be read, in the Campagnes des Pays Bas, and in Espagnac. The newspapers furnish a few picturesque incidents of some value.]