 The Prince of Brunswick set up a formal siege of Wesel building two pontoon bridges over the river.He resolved to meet de Castries' army round the Kloster Kampen area west of the river.Major General George Augustus Eliott commanded the approach vanguard, 2 squadrons of Prussian Hussars, the Royal Dragoons, the Inniskilling Dragoons along with the 87th and 88th Highlanders.