ABSTRACT
The next morning he set out by five, and arrived toward two in the afternoon at Pont-a-Chin near the Scheld, within reach of the line of circumvallation formed about Tournay. The Dauphin, who had been apprized, was there in time, and attended his father when he went to reconnoitre the ground designed for the field of battle. In consequence of the most sure and undoubted intelligence, the Confederate army marched the 9th from Moulbray, and encamped that evening with the right at Bosignies, and the left at Moulbray, within a little more than musket shot of the advanced posts of the enemy. If the Confederates should attempt to pass through the wood of Barri, they would have met with another redoubt furnished with cannon; if they made a greater circuit they had entrenchments to force, and must have been exposed to two batteries that had been fixed on the high road to Leuze.
