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Blenheim 1704 - The Duke of Marlborough's Masterpiece

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Campaign Series - 1700 - 1950 A.D. (Excluding WWI & II)

MSRP old price: $25.00


Product Info

Title
Blenheim 1704 - The Duke of Marlborough's Masterpiece
Publisher
Category
Author
John Tincey
Publish Year
2004
Pages
96
Dimensions
8x10x.25"
NKG Part #
2147397622
MFG. Part #
OSPCAM141
Type
Softcover
Series
CAM141

Description

Combining one of history’s most audacious strategic maneuvers with perhaps the greatest military victory ever won by a British commander, the Blenheim campaign is rightly considered the pinnacle of the career of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough. On 13 August 1704, Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy faced a Franco-Bavarian army threatening to knock Austria out of the War of the Spanish Succession. In a hard-fought battle Marlborough won a resounding victory, capturing Marshal Tallard and over 14,000 men. In this book John Tincey describes how Marlborough’s victory crushed his enemies, shattered the myth of French invincibility and laid the foundations for two centuries of British world dominance.