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No sooner was these treaties signed, than the ten thousand troops furnished by the King of Sicily, marched from the neighbourhood of Turin, and crossing the Alps near Bornico, joined the Swiss troops, and remained encamped till the Imperialists and Bavarians arrived, when they formed an army of thirty-four thousand men. The King sent the Duke of Devonshire orders to detach the Earl of Bury with five thousand men, to put himself at their head, and lead them into France. This was no easy talk. Philip, who had recruited his army, and was re-enforced with fifteen thousand Spaniards, laid in his way to intercept. Franche Compté, part of Lorraine, and Alsace, were in his possession; so that the road to Swisserland was entirely blocked up, but this able General, deceived the French King(or