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The battle of Oudenarde: July 11th 1708.(Brief article)
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July 1, 2008
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The third of the four famous victories over the French won by John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy in the War of the Spanish Succession (Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde and Malplaquet) came after a succession of setbacks in 1707. In the following spring Marlborough had perhaps 80,000 men close to Brussels, Eugene's German army was at Coblenz and the French had some 100,000 soldiers at Mons in present-day Belgium. The French under Marshal Vend6me suddenly took Ghent and Bruges early in July. Marlborough was prostrated by ...
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