Context
On the death of Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne at the battle of Salzbach, the French army retreated and recrossed the Rhine. Louis XIV appointed Louis II de Bourbon-Condé to replace him. He stopped the advance of Montecuccoli, and took the seats of Haguenau and Saverne. Tormented by gout, the Grand Condé in Chantilly decided to retire, matched in this by Montecuccoli. Louis XIV did not continue fighting given his capture of Condé and Bouchain.
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