text:  Meanwhile as the siege of Landau was found to require more time than had been anticipated owing to the extraordinary difficulties experienced in getting up supplies and forage for the troops; Marlborough repaired to Hanover and Berlin to stimulate the Prussian and Hanoverian cabinets to greater exertions in the common cause and he succeeded in making arrangements for the addition of 8000 more Prussian troops to their valuable auxiliary force to be added to the army of the Imperialists in Italy which stood much in need of reinforcement