Briefwisseling en aantekeningen. Deel 1

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XCI.
Willem Bentinck aan de gravin van Portland.

[B.M., Eg. 1713]

Sorgvliet, 31 Juli 1744.

I cannot let the post go without informing you that to-day our army was to pass the Scheld ...

The superiority of our army is so great that it might very naturally happen that the French kept the whole campain behind their lines, and left the frontiers of France open to ours, to go and refeat (sic) themselves of all they have suffered.