Major conflict1709
Battle of Malplaquet
Malplaquet · near Mons · Spanish Netherlands
Estimated casualties
30K – 36Kestimated dead
Allied ~21,000-25,000 killed/wounded; French ~11,000-12,000. Combined ~32,000-36,000; bloodiest battle of the 18th century.
SOURCEWikipedia / Clodfelter
On 11 September 1709 the Allied army of Marlborough and Eugene won a narrow, extremely costly victory over the French under Villars near Malplaquet, the bloodiest battle of the 18th century, whose losses sapped Allied will to continue the war.
Belligerents2
- Grand Alliance
- France
ON THE MAPKingdom of France
Sources
- Wikipedia: Battle of Malplaquet
- Clodfelter, Warfare and Armed Conflicts (4th ed., 2017)
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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