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winter quarters, and collecting them near Nevers; this business the King hastened with all expedition, for he designed to take the field before the Spanish army under the Duke de Lerma had joined Philip; it consisted of fifty thousand men, and was in full march for France. Philip himself had spared no pains to augment his troops: he had thrown strong garrisons into all his fortresses, and his army designed for the field, amounted to seventy thousand men; which he was collecting with all expedition. The King of England by the latter end of April, found himself at the head of sixty thousand conquering troops; he had besides twenty thousand in garrisons, twenty thousand in Flanders under Sommers, and five thousand encamped near Saintes, commanded by General Young, who watched ten thousand of Philip's troops, that had beendetached