Battle of Elixheim

Quando

18 de jul. de 1705

Tipo

Batalha

Coordenadas

50.78° N, 5.01° E

Description

1705 battle

1705 conflict in the War of the Spanish Succession

At the Battle of Elixheim, 18 July 1705, also known as the Passage of the Lines of Brabant during the War of the Spanish Succession, the Anglo-Dutch forces of the Grand Alliance, under the Duke of Marlborough and Field Marshal Ouwerkerk, successfully broke through the French Lines of Brabant. These lines were an arc of defensive fieldworks stretching in a seventy-mile arc from Antwerp to Namur.

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