Significant1708
Battle of Oudenarde
Oudenarde · Spanish Netherlands
Estimated casualties
9.0K – 15Kestimated dead
French ~6,000-8,000 casualties plus ~9,000 captured; Allied ~3,000. Combined battlefield casualties commonly ~9,000-15,000.
SOURCEWikipedia / Clodfelter
On 11 July 1708 the Allied army under Marlborough and Eugene defeated the French near Oudenarde on the Scheldt in a confused encounter battle, opening the road to the invasion of France.
Belligerents2
- Grand Alliance
- France
ON THE MAPKingdom of France
Sources
- Wikipedia: Battle of Oudenarde
- Clodfelter, Warfare and Armed Conflicts (4th ed., 2017)
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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Cite as: Battle of Oudenarde (1708). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-oudenarde · Sources & methodology