CASTRIES • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Castries

... bridges, and laid his trenches under water. The difficulties and delays occasioned by this circumstance entirely frustrated his design. The French, being made acquainted with his motions, were not slow in taking measures to anticipate his success. M. de Castries was detached after him with thirty battalions, and thirty-eight squadrons; and, by forced marches, arrived on the fourteenth day of October at Ehynberg, where the prince's light troops were posted. These he attacked immediately, and compelled to abandon the post, notwithstanding all ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett