three o'clock
The troops coming up from Tournai , under General Withers , were ordered not to join the main army ; but to cross the Haine at Saint Ghislain , and to attack the extreme left of the enemy at the farm of La Folie . Baron Schulemberg was to attack the left flank of the entrenchments in the wood of Taisniere , with forty of Eugene 's battalions , supported by as many cannon ; while Count Lottum was to attack the right flank of the wood with twenty-two battalions . The rest of the army was to attack in front ; but it was from Eugene 's attack in the wood of Taisniere that success was chiefly hoped . At three o'clock on the morning of the 11th the men were got under arms , divine service was performed at the head of each regiment , and then the troops marched to the posts assigned to them in the attack . Both armies were confident , the French enthusiastic . The allies relied on their unbroken series of victories . Never once since the war begun had they suffered defeat ; and with Eugene as well as Marlborough with them , they felt confident of their power to carry a position which , even to the eye of the least instructed soldier , was yet formidable in the extreme .