text:  It was fixed that early in spring ninety thousand men should be assembled in the country between the Moselle and the Saar and after establishing their magazines and base of operations at Treves and Traerbach they should penetrate in two columns into Lorraine; that the column under Marlborough in person should advance along the course of Moselle and the other under the Margrave of Baden by the valley of the Saar and that Saar-Louis should be invested before the French army had time to take the field