text:  These great reinforcements with the addition of nine battalions which were in the lines on the Dyle when the battle of Ramilies was fought would when all assembled have raised the French army to one hundred and ten battalions and one hundred and forty squadrons--or above one hundred thousand men; whereas Marlborough after employing thirty-two battalions in the siege could only spare for the covering army about seventy-two battalions and eighty squadrons