For what particular reason Englishmen were fighting at Dettingen or fontenoy or Lauffeld is a question which a man can only answer when he has been specially crammed for examination and his knowledge has not begun to ooze out; while the abnormal incapacity of our rulers was displayed at the attack upon Carthagena or during the Pretender's march into England.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
19, 20. fontenoy, battle of, vii.
"History of the English People, Index"
John Richard Green
Returning to France, he became surgeon to the French Guard, and served at the battles of fontenoy and Dettingen.
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
