Major conflict1704
Battle of Blenheim
Blenheim (Blindheim) · Bavaria
Estimated casualties
30K – 38Kestimated dead
Franco-Bavarian ~20,000+ casualties plus ~14,000 captured; Allied ~12,000 killed/wounded. Combined ~30,000-38,000.
SOURCEWikipedia / Clodfelter
On 13 August 1704 the Grand Alliance army under the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene crushed a Franco-Bavarian army on the Danube near Blenheim, saving Vienna and breaking the myth of French invincibility in the War of the Spanish Succession.
Belligerents2
- Grand Alliance
- France and Bavaria
Sources
- Wikipedia: Battle of Blenheim
- Clodfelter, Warfare and Armed Conflicts (4th ed., 2017)
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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