Chapter IV: Dispute over the Austrian Succession 80

Aggression of Frederick the Great 81

Ambitious Projects of France 81

England sends aid to Queen Maria Theresa 81

Army increased; Forty-third to Forty-eighth Regiments raised 82

John, Earl of Stair 83

His Advice and his Plans 84

The Campaign of 1742 86

Stair's Plans for the winter rejected 87

The British Army marches to the Main 88

Fresh Projects of Stair rejected 89

He forms new Plans 90

He disobeys Orders to prove their soundness 91

Desperate Peril of the Allies owing to disregard of his
counsel 92

Battle of Dettingen 92

Stair resigns the Command 102

CHAPTER V

Insufficiency of the British Preparations for 1744 103

Saxe's Operations 104

Wade paralysed by the Dutch and Austrians 105

Stair's Plan of Campaign 106

Inactivity of Dutch and Austrians; Wade Resigns 107

Ligonier's proposals for a great effort in 1745 108

Cumberland appointed to the Command 109

The French Position at Fontenoy 110

Battle of Fontenoy 111

Cumberland's False Movements after Fontenoy 121

Extreme Peril of his situation 122

Recall of the Army to England 123