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 vonshire the right, and the Earl of Bury the left. Every thing being prepared for the engagement, the King ordered the signal to be made for beginning it, and about nine in the morning that battle began which was at once to decide the fate of two mighty kingdoms. The French army was the most numerous; and commanded by their King. The Monarch of the English also headed them, and they were eager to engage and obliterate by their bravery, the memory of their late defeat. The fire of the artillery was the beginning of this great action; as the British troops advanced under cover of their own cannon, that of the enemy played on them with great fury, and some effect; but the skill of the English engineers so well directed their fire, that several battalions of the enemy were thrown into confusion; the King however soon brought on warmer work; at the head