text:  But Marlborough it is evident evinced the capacity of a great general in the manner in which he surmounted these obstacles and took advantage of these faulty dispositions; resolutely in the first instance overcoming the numerous impediments which opposed the passage of the rivulets and then accumulating his horse and foot for a grand attack on the enemy's centre which besides destroying above half the troops assembled there and driving thirty squadrons into the Danube cut off and isolated the powerful body of infantry now uselessly crowded together in Blenheim and compelled them to surrender