ABSTRACT
The Adventurer having failed in the enterprize, on the event of which no less than the fate of Europe depended, the British nation was left in full freedom to prosecute the war with more vigour than ever against all her enemies. General Sinclair landed with 7000 men on the 2nd of October, at a place called Polduc, without opposition, and among these was the new-raised Highland regiment, the first corps from North Britain that had ever entered France in an hostile manner. Encounters like these at Rocoux tended only to inflame the enemies of France. The Dutch, more cordially united than ever, resolved to carry on the war in Brabant: they judged, and very justly, that the ruin of their Barrier was more owing to the divisions among themselves than to the power of the enemy. Since the beginning of the war there was not so much business in the different theatres of action as in the year 1747.
