The Battle of Blenheim (German: Zweite Schlacht bei Höchstädt; French: Bataille de Höchstädt; Dutch: Slag bij Blenheim) fought on 13 August [O.S. 2 August] 1704, was a major battle of the War of the Spanish Succession.

2024年12月23日 · Battle of Blenheim, (Aug. 13, 1704), the most famous victory of John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, and Eugene of Savoy in the War of the Spanish Succession. The first major defeat that the French army suffered in over 50 years, it saved Vienna from a threatening Franco-Bavarian army, preserved the alliance of England , Austria , and the ...

Diorama of the Battle of Blenheim on display in Höchstädt an der Donau, Germany. Order of Battle, Allied Army. The following units and commanders fought in the Battle of Blenheim during the War of the Spanish Succession on August 13, 1704.

Battle of Blenheim fought on 2nd August 1704: The Duke of Marlborough’s spectacular defeat of the hitherto invincible French army of Louis XIV

The Battle of Blenheim in 1704 saw a decisive defeat for a Franco-Bavarian force by the allied English, Dutch and Austrian armies commanded by the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy.

2022年8月12日 · The battle of Blenheim: how did the Duke of Marlborough triumph on the Danube? The Duke of Marlborough’s victory at Blenheim in 1704 shattered the myth of French invincibility and paved the way for Britain’s emergence as a world power. Battle historian Julian Humphrys explains…

2011年8月16日 · The weight and determination of Marlborough’s attack on the summit of the hill ‘fixed’ the Bavarian defence, allowing Prince Louis of Baden’s Imperialists to break through a weakly defended sector on the right and turn the enemy flank.

2017年3月17日 · The Battle of Blenheim was fought August 13, 1704, during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714). In 1704, King Louis XIV of France sought to knock the Holy Roman Empire out of the War of Spanish Succession by capturing its capital, Vienna.

2006年6月12日 · On the afternoon of June 10, 1704, John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and supreme commander of the English army, met his ally, Prince François-Eugène of Savoy-Carignan, in Mannheim, a sleepy little village in southern Germany.

The Battle of Blenheim fought on August 13, 1704 was one of the turning points of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14), saving Vienna from the Franco-Bavarian army and preventing the collapse of the Grand Alliance.