• The Battle of Walcourt was fought on 25 August 1689 during the Nine Years' War. The action took place near the ancient walled town of Walcourt near Charleroi...
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    Walcourt (French pronunciation: [walkuʁ] ; Walloon: Walcoû) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Namur, Belgium. On 1 January...
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    Marshal of William's forces during the War of the Grand Alliance in the Spanish Netherlands. Although he was victorious at the Battle of Walcourt in 1689...
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    regiment of cavalry. In the following Nine Years' War he was present at the battle of Walcourt. In 1691, promoted ot major general, his rear-guard of cavalry...
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    first engagement at the Battle of Walcourt in 1689, a number unsurpassed by any other unit in the British Army. The regiment's battle honours include: Blenheim...
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    Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685. It fought in the Battle of Walcourt in 1689, the Battle of Landen and the Siege of Namur. In 1760, the 2nd Battalion was sent...
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    the field, and then mostly in subordinate commands. However, at the Battle of Walcourt on 25 August 1689 Marlborough won praise from the Allied commander...
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    The Battle of the Boyne (Irish: Cath na Bóinne IPA: [ˈkah n̪ˠə ˈbˠoːn̠ʲə]) took place in 1690 between the forces of the deposed King James II, and those...
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    setback at the Battle of Walcourt in August 1689, in which the French were defeated by an allied army under Prince Georg Friedrich of Waldeck, the French...
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    Thomas Tollemache (category Younger sons of earls)
    the Battle of Walcourt in August 1689. During 1691, he served in Ireland as a major general, fighting at the Battle of Aughrim and the sieges of Athlone...
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  • Battle of Dunkeld 21 August - Williamites defeat the Jacobites. Battle of Walcourt 25 August – An Anglo-Dutch force defeats a French army. Battle of Batočina...
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    at the Battle of Walcourt in August 1689 before returning home in 1690. It embarked for Flanders later that year and fought at the Battle of Steenkerque...
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    The Battle of Landen, took place on 29 July 1693, during the Nine Years' War near Landen, then in the Spanish Netherlands, now part of Belgium. A French...
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    French Royal Army (category Military history of France)
    (1678) Siege of Philippsburg (1688) Battle of Walcourt (1689) Battle of Fleurus (1690) Battle of Staffarda (1690) Siege of Mons (1691) Siege of Cuneo (1691)...
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    Hans Willem van Aylva (category Admirals of the navy of the Dutch Republic)
    Bonn fell in October after a bloody siege. At the Battle of Walcourt (1689), he led a mixed force of English and Dutch soldiers against the French left...
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  • François Zénobe Philippe Albergotti (category French military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession)
    at the Battle of Walcourt in 1689. In 1690 he distinguished himself at Fleurus. In 1691 he was wounded in the face at the Siege of Mons (1691). Nevertheless...
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    At the start of the 1688–1697 Nine Years War, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Robert Douglas commanded the first battalion at the Battle of Walcourt in 1689. After...
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    Frederik Johan van Baer (category Dutch military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession)
    the Battle of Walcourt. On 7 January 1690, however, he arrived in England to complain personally to William about his bad relations with the Prince of Waldeck...
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    Prince of Waldeck, defeated Humières at the Battle of Walcourt on 25 August. However, by 1690 the Spanish Netherlands had become the main seat of the war...
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    The Battle of Beachy Head, also known as the Battle of Bévéziers, was a fleet action fought on 10 July 1690 during the Nine Years' War. The battle was...
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    The Battle of Aughrim (Irish: Cath Eachroma) was the decisive battle of the Williamite War in Ireland. It was fought between the largely Irish Jacobite...
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    This is a chronological list of battles involving the Kingdom of France (987–1792). For pre-987 battles, see List of battles involving the Franks and Francia...
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    The Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue took place during the Nine Years' War, between 19 May O.S. (29 May N.S.) and 4 June O.S. (14 June N.S.) 1692. The...
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    Francis Fergus O'Farrell (category British military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession)
    in place of Thomas Buchan, a Scottish Catholic who had remained loyal to James. It reached Flanders in time to fight at the Battle of Walcourt in August...
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    The Battle of Marsaglia was a battle in the Nine Years' War, fought in Italy on 4 October 1693, between the French army of Marshal Nicolas Catinat and...
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  • / 54.184; -7.366 The Battle of Newtownbutler took place near Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, Ireland, in 1689 and was part of the Williamite War in...
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    The Battle of Warns (West Frisian: Slach by Warns; Dutch: Slag bij Warns) was a battle of the Friso-Hollandic Wars between Count William IV of Holland...
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  • Jacques-Louis Comte de Noyelles (category Dutch military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession)
    of Waldeck in the Spring of 1689. As such he fought in the Battle of Walcourt. Later that year his regiment was placed at the disposal of the Army of...
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    regiment saw action in the Low Countries the following year at the Battle of Walcourt, in which an Allied Army defeated the French, though defeats for the...
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    The Battle of Torroella, also known as Battle of the river Ter, took place during the Nine Years' War, on 27 May 1694 along the banks and fords of the...
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