Crossword-Solution: BILSEN 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

After all the demons and witches were assembled they began to plan evil deeds; and my bride being the heroine of the hour, she had the right to offer the first suggestion: "There is an inn near the '_kempenei_,'" she began, "whose owner is in league with the commandant of Bilsen to counterfeit money, and waylay travellers.

Cumberland thereupon decided to take up Saxe's camp of the previous year, from Bilsen, on the head-waters of the Demer, to Tongres.

Saxe's rear had not yet come up and the men were fatigued by a long and harassing march; but Cumberland was not the man to fight an action of the type of Oudenarde, and the opportunity was lost.[232] The position now occupied by the Allies extended from some rising ground known as the Commanderie, a little to the south-east of Bilsen, along a chain of villages and low heights to the Jaar, a little to the south of Maestricht.

The Commanderie being the right of the line was held by the Austrians, with a strong corps thrown back _en potence_ to Bilsen to protect the right flank; for it was as important on this field as on that of Roucoux that the retreat into Holland should not be cut off.