density of 276 inhabitants per km². Riemst was the site of the Battle of Lauffeld, fought in 1747. The bridge in the Borough Vroenhoven was part of the start...

The Battle of Lauffeld, variously known as Lafelt, Laffeld, Lawfeld, Lawfeldt, Maastricht, or Val, took place on 2 July 1747, between Tongeren in modern...

next two years. Despite further French victories at Rocoux in 1746 and Lauffeld in 1747, their economic position continued to deteriorate. The war ended...

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Jacobite Rebellion, he returned to the continent and fought at the Battle of Lauffeld. He went on to command a brigade at the Battle of Warburg during the Seven...

participated in the Battle of Lauffeld, he was very badly wounded and received an official commendation for services to Britain. Lauffeld was the largest battle...

spare it." Saxe went on to win further victories at Rocoux (1746) and Lauffeld (1747). In 1746 French forces besieged and occupied Brussels, which Louis...

made Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance on 19 March 1747, he fought at Lauffeld in July 1747, where he led the charge of the British cavalry. He did this...

still-victorious Marshal Saxe and received a heavy defeat at the Battle of Lauffeld, or Val, near Maastricht, on 2 July 1747. This and the fall of Bergen-op-Zoom...

served as a staff officer with the French Army and is known to have been at Lauffeld in 1747, where Cumberland was defeated by Saxe, as well as with the force...

armed forces. The strategic situation, however, failed to change and at Lauffeld on 2 July 1747, Saxe won another victory over a British and Dutch army...

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Clackmannanshire. The 4th Baronet was killed in action at the Battle of Lauffeld in 1747. The 5th Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Ayr Burghs and...

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Clackmannanshire. His eldest son, the fourth Baronet, was killed at the Battle of Lauffeld in 1747. His younger brother and successor, the fifth Baronet, was a Lieutenant-General...

following the return of Cumberland and British reinforcements at the Battle of Lauffeld (July 1747). France had seized control of much of the Austrian Netherlands...

preparation for the 1747 campaign. The French won another tactical victory at Lauffeld on 2 July, where the Scots Greys took part in Ligonier's charge, one of...

and then fought bravely to mitigate the British defeat at the Battle of Lauffeld in July 1747. The regiment was formally titled as the 4th Regiment of Dragoons...

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volunteer in the British Army before distinguishing himself at the Battle of Lauffeld in 1747. Consequently, he was awarded an ensigncy in the 43rd Regiment...

defeated the tenacious but ill-led allied forces. After the Battle of Lauffeld in 1747 he was named Marshal of France. In 1718 he had married Antoinette...

the War of the Austrian Succession. He took part in the 1747 Battle of Lauffeld, a decisive French victory where only cavalry charges led by Lord Ligonier...

field-marshal of the French army. He distinguished himself especially at Lauffeld, Rocoux and Maastricht. On the outbreak of the Seven Years' War (1756)...

July 1747, the Second Battalion was sent to Flanders, where it fought at Lauffeld, before the war ended with the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. In the absence...

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persuaded his allies to make another attempt, which ended with defeat at Lauffeld in July 1747. Primarily consisting of Hanoverian and Hessian troops British...

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was wounded at Roucoux in Flanders in October 1746, and lost an arm at Lauffeld in 1747. In 1748 he succeeded his father as lieutenant-general of Champagne...

commander of the British forces, and saw further action at the Battle of Lauffeld in July 1747. In February 1756, Amherst was appointed commissar to the...