Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Louis, tare da 'yan majalisa, ya bar Versailles zuwa Flanders a ranar 10 ga Mayu. Sojojin doki na Faransa sun mamaye garin a daren 25-26 ga Mayu; babban rundunar ya isa washegari. Sojojin Faransa sun fi yawa fiye da Louis ya tattara don Siege na Mons
a shekarar da ta gabata: rundunar da ke kewaye da ita sun kai kimanin mutane 60,000 da bindigogi 151; rundunar duques de Luxembourg na kallo <unk> da aka tsara don hana William zuwa taimakon Namur <unk> shima yana da kimanin mutane 60,000. Garrison na Namur, a karkashin umarnin Octavius Ignatius, Yariman Arenberg da Barbançon, sun kai kimanin 6,000.