PREFACE THIS volume consists simply of extracts reprinted from my History of the British Army. It is published in order that the troops at the front may, if they wish it, study the experiences of their foreruners in the Low Countries in a book which is fairly portable and fairly inexpensive, though neither so cheap nor so compendious as The British Soldeirs Guide to northern France and Flandes. Now to Flanders, which is about to become for the second time the training ground of the British Army. The judicious help sent by Lewis the Fourteenth to Ireland had practically diverted the entire strength of IVilliam to that quarter for two whole campaigns and though, as has been seen, there were English in Flanders in 1689 and 1690, the contingents which they furnished were too small and the operations too trifling to warrant descriptionin detail. After the battle of the Boyne the case was somewhat altered, for, though a large force was still required in Ireland for Ginkells final...