text:  By the effect and one of the most desired effects of the English alliance a strong body of British auxiliaries were sent to Flanders; the English officers learned the theory and practice of war in the best of all schools and under the best of all teachers; that ignorance of the military art the result in every age of our insular situation and which generally causes the four or five first years of every war to terminate in disaster was for the time removed and that mighty genius was developed under the eye of Louis XIV