The prince of Orange likewise, who had great influence in their councils, was all on fire for military fame, and was well pleased to be at the head of armies, from which such mighty successes were expected.

Under various pretences, he eluded, during the whole campaign, the meeting with Temple; and after the troops were sent into winter quarters, he told that minister, in his first audience, that till greater impression were made on France, reasonable terms could not be hoped for; and it were therefore vain to negotiate.
The success of the campaign had not answered expectation.

The prince of Orange, with a superior army, was opposed in Flanders to the prince of Conde, and had hoped to penetrate into France by that quarter, where the frontier was then very feeble.

After long endeavoring, though in vain, to bring Conde to a battle, he rashly exposed at Seneffe a wing of his army; and that active prince failed not at once to see and to seize the advantage.

But this imprudence of the prince of Orange was amply compensated by his behavior in that obstinate and bloody action which ensued.