text:  Marlborough during the whole of January and February 1704 was indefatigable in his efforts to overcome these difficulties; and the preparations having at length been completed it was agreed by the States according to a plan of the campaign laid down by Marlborough that he himself should proceed into Bavaria with the great body of the Allied army in Flanders leaving only an army of observation there to restrain any incursion which the French troops might attempt during his absence