Battle of Malplaquet: Great Britain, Netherlands, and Austria fight against France.

Battle of Malplaquet

1709 Spanish Succession War battle

The Battle of Malplaquet took place on 11 September 1709 during the War of the Spanish Succession, near Taisnières-sur-Hon in France, then part of the Spanish Netherlands. A French army of around 75,000 men, commanded by the Duke of Villars, engaged a Grand Alliance force of…