ENGLISH

Ramillies 1706 Year of Miracles

By James Falkner

Book information

Publisher
Pen and Sword Military
Year
2006
ISBN
0850526612
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3451678 bytes)
Series
Battleground Marlborough
Pages
\58
Time added
2016-10-11 12:25:55

Description

On Sunday 23 May 1706, near the village of Ramillies in modern Belgium, the Anglo-Dutch army commanded by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, inflicted a devastating defeat on the French army of the Duke de Villeroi. Marlboroughs triumph on that day ranks alongside Blenheim as one of the great feats of his extraordinary military career. The French army was shattered physically and morally and, as a result, Marlboroughs army overran almost all of the Spanish Netherlands in the next six weeks, and gained an unshakeable advantage over the armed might of Louis XIVs France during the long War of the Spanish Succession.

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