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BATTLE OF BLENHEIM

The Battle of Blenheim was fought during the Spanish Succession, on August the 13th, 1704, near the village of Blenheim in Bavaria. Anglo-Austrian forces, led by the British military leader John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, and the Austrian general Eugene of Savoy, defeated the French and Bavarians under the French marshal Camille de Tallard and Maximilian II Emanuel, elector of Bavaria. The British and Austrian casualties were 4500 killed and 7500 wounded. The French and Bavarians lost a large but undetermined number; 11,000 were taken prisoner. After this defeat French military domination of Europe began to decline.
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