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    The siege of Bouchain (9 August – 12 September 1711), following the Passage of the Lines of Ne Plus Ultra (5 August 1711), was a siege of the War of the...
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    siege of Bouchain (1 October – 19 October 1712), was a siege of the War of the Spanish Succession, and a victory for the French troops of the Duc de Villars...
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    the town was fortified, Bouchain was besieged twice. On 12 September 1711 it was seized from the French after a 34 day siege by the Grand Alliance led...
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    of Marlborough with an army of 30,000 besieges Bouchain in the War of the Spanish Succession. The siege lasts 34 days and results in the last major victory...
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    January 1711, when its Habsburg defenders surrendered. The attacking Franco-Spanish army numbered some 19,000 and was commanded by Duke Adrien Maurice de Noailles...
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  • Succession Siege of Bouchain (1711) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Venasque (1711) – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Stralsund (1711–15) –...
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  • Douai, Le Quesnoy and Bouchain. From 14 November 1713 he commanded the 11e Régiment d'infanterie de France (and gave up the Régiment de Barrois in return)...
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    the Earl of Galway. He also was a siege expert and led the sieges of Béthune, Bouchain and Le Quesnoy in 1710, 1711 and 1712 respectively. He was the...
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    on two possible battlefields, one to the east of the city on the way to Bouchain and Valenciennes, the other in the plain of Lens that stretched from Vitry...
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    1704-1711. Society for Army Historical Research. Holmes, Richard (2008). Marlborough: England's Fragile Genius. Harper. ISBN 978-0-00-722572-9. "Siege of...
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  • – the South Sea Company receives a Royal Charter. 12 September – Siege of Bouchain in the War of the Spanish Succession concludes with the last major...
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  • Bocage, who claim it for France and map it. 9 August–12 September – Siege of Bouchain (War of the Spanish Succession): the Duke of Marlborough breaks through...
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    Battle of Denain (category Military history of Hauts-de-France)
    Despite this the 1711 campaign saw Marlborough enjoy further success by leading his army through the lines Ne Plus Ultra and capturing Bouchain, a key fortress...
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    has few equals in the annals of military history ... the subsequent siege of Bouchain with all its technical complexities, was an equally fine demonstration...
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    commitment to the war to prevent a credit crisis. Despite the capture of Bouchain in September, a decisive victory in northern France continued to elude...
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    and now only able to capture Bouchain. Sicco van Goslinga, one of the Dutch deputies, described him as follows in 1711: ...his advanced age does not...
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    capture of Mons. In 1710 he fought at Douai and Aire and 1711 at Bouchain. On 20 April 1711 he became a Second Lieutenant. 1713 brought in Leopold of...
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    in 1711. He returned to the continent in 1712 and continued to serve in the Army commanded by the Duke of Ormonde besieging Douai and then Bouchain until...
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    and also sent an additional 20,000 men. Marlborough, having conquered Bouchain in the previous year, had left most of his troops to occupy the outermost...
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    Battle of Malplaquet (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    undermined a key reason for continuing the war. While the capture of Bouchain in September 1711 removed one of the last significant obstacles to the Allied advance...
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    Colonel Roger Elliott, who was replaced in turn by Brigadier Thomas Stanwix in 1711. This time the appointments were made directly by London with no claim of...
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    Marchiennes, before reversing their earlier losses at Douai, Le Quesnoy and Bouchain. In one summer the whole forward Allied position laboriously built up over...
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    Grovestins's cavalry raid (category Military history of Hauts-de-France)
    Grovestins was ordered to take up the governorship of the fortress of Bouchain again, where he soon was besieged by Villars. He was forced to surrender...
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  • Anne's War Siege of Bouchain 5 August - 12 September - Great Britain, the Netherlands and Austria capture Bouchain from France. Battle of Rio de Janeiro...
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    capable engineer during the sieges of Douai, Béthune, St. Venant, and Aire. In April 1711, he was with Marlborough at Bouchain, and in June, he provided...
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    Brihuega (1710) Siege of Bouchain (1711) Battle of Denain (1712) Siege of Bouchain (1712) Rhine campaign (1713) Siege of Barcelona (1713–1714) Siege of Danzig...
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    – was taken to England and imprisoned in Nottingham until his release in 1711. The 1704 campaign lasted longer than usual, for the Allies sought to extract...
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    part in the Siege of Douai in April 1710. Promoted to lieutenant general on 1 June 1710, he fought at the Siege of Bouchain in August 1711. He was also...
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    1711, at Bouchain. He remained in Holland until the Peace of Utrecht. In the Pomeranian campaign of the Great Northern War, Platen was at the Siege of...
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  • Succession Siege of Bouchain (1711) – 1711 – War of the Spanish Succession Battle of Denain – 1712 – War of the Spanish Succession Siege of Bouchain (1712)...
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