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vince of Artois. Devonshire being joined by General Sommers and his scattered troops, divided his army into two parts; with one, Sommers advanced towards Namur, with design to take that City, and afterwards to reduce all the adjacent provinces. The Duke at the head of the other, made a flying march to Antwerp, and surprised that city. His detachments by the way conquered all Dutch Brabant, and Dutch Flanders: this country, so famous in history, was no longer the strongest spot in Europe; many of that vast list of fortresses, which in the great Marlborough's time, took so much time to master, now opened their gates to the Duke of Devonshire on the first summons.—Having secured the provinces in his rear, he advanced into Liege, and coasting along the Meuse, took Nimeguen; nothing now opposed the most rapid conquests; whole provinces wereover-