BLENHEIM, BATTLE OF

major engagement of the War of the Spanish Succession (see Spanish Succession, War of the), fought on Aug. 13, 1704, at the village of Blenheim, near Höchstädt, Bavaria. Responding to appeals from Vienna, which was threatened by French and Bavarian forces, the English commander, John Churchill, duke of Marlborough, marched his army from the Netherlands to Bavaria and joined forces with the Austrian general, Prince Eugene of Savoy. At Blenheim their combined army overwhelmed a Franco-Bavarian force under Marshall Tallard and the elector of Bavaria. For the first time in two generations the French suffered a crushing defeat, and the results were immediate and far-reaching. Bavaria was conquered and Vienna saved. The territorial ambitions of Louis XIV beyond the Rhine were checked, and France was placed on the defensive.

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Dangerous Sky: A Resource Guide to the Battle of Britain
Book by Eunice Wilson; Greenwood Press, 1995
Subjects: Britain, Battle Of, 1940--Bibliography
...and 6 had Blenheims. Out of 800 aircraft...chicks"--the Battle of Britain...Valiant Wings Battle and Blenheim Squadrons in...Squadrons of the RAF...Britain. Battle of Britain Fighter...5BY. Blenheim Society, 5...
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The Narrow Margin: The Battle of Britain and the Rise of Air Power 1930-40
Book by Derek Wood, Derek D. Dempster; Hutchinson, 1961
Subjects: Britain, Battle Of, 1940, World War, 1939-1945--Aerial Operations
...thrown into the battle as they lacked performance...however, was a squadron of Gloster Gladiators...A.F. The Bristol Blenheims were inadequate...side during the Battle of Britain. They presumed...Hurricanes, Spitfires, Blenheims and Defiants. Twenty-three...
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The Battle of Britain: And the American Factor, July-October 1940
Book by David Alan Johnson; Combined Publishing, 1998
...more different. The Luftwaffe had come away from the Battle of France in triumph; the RAF escaped in tatters. At the...Fighter Command had only 413 serviceable aircraft: 79 Blenheims used primarily as night fighters ; 9 Defiants obsolete...
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The Battle of France, 1940
Book by Adolphe Goutard, A. R. P. Burgess; Ives Washburn, 1959
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front
The Battle of France, 1940 LE GENERAL DE GAULLE Le...connection, reasons for hope? C. DE GAULLE The Battle of France, 1940 by COLONEL A. GOUTARD...Chapter 2. THE BATTLE OF BELGIUM 108...
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Representative Plays by American Dramatists
Includes: The Prince of Parthia; Ponteach, or, The Savages of America; The Group, A Farce; The Battle of Bunkers-Hill; The Fall of British Tyranny, or, American Liberty; The Politician Out-witted; The Contrast; Andre; The Indian Princess, or, La Belle Sauvage; She Would Be a Soldier, or, The Plains of Chippewa
Book by Montrose J. Moses; E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918
Subjects: American Drama--Collected Works, Drama
...The Battle of Bunkers-Hill . By Hugh...face bold danger, in the battle firm, And dauntless as...Which speak the Hero friend of humankind. GOTARZES...may attend you in the rage of battle. By imitating thy heroic...
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Did Radar Win the Battle of Britain?
Journal article by Anthony J. Cumming; The Historian, Vol. 69, 2007
Subjects: Battle of Britain, 1940--Social aspects, Radio direction finders--Usage, Social historians--Works, United Kingdom. Royal Air Force--History, United Kingdom. Royal Air Force--Social aspects
...by Joubert toward the end of the daylight battles provide further insight. The "requirements of calibration were stated on 3 April, before...this. There were also complaints about the Blenheim aircraft used by Radio Maintenance Units...
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Modern Warfare in Early-Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Journal article by John Richardson; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 45, 2005
Subjects: English Augustan age, 1700-1750--Criticism and interpretation, War poetry--Criticism and interpretation
...Year the Third, describes the Battle of Blenheim as a series of troop movements...his left hand to a plan of the Battle of Blenheim, made prominent by its whiteness...hottest part of the fight" (The Battle of Blenheim London: B. T. Batsford, 1976...
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Defoe and the Art of War
Journal article by Maximillian E. Novak; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 75, 1996
Subjects: Defoe, Daniel--Criticism, interpretation, etc., English literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., War and literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...special care to his accounts of battle. In his lively but shortlived...he gave a brilliant account of Marlboroughs victory at Blenheim, showing how he turned the...for his description of the battle of Blenheim, here he is very much Defoe...
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Generalship: Qualities, Instincts, and Character
Journal article by Montgomery C. Meigs; Parameters, Vol. 31, 2001
Subjects: Generals--Evaluation, Leadership--Methods
...this fixing with untiring eye and absolute selflessness the problem as a whole.... 6 In these battles, as at Blenheim, Marlborough was in the thick of the fight while his French opponents hung back, out of touch with events at the point of the...
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Saving an Empire: The Contribution of John Wenzel Count Wratislaw to the Turnaround in 1704
Journal article by Henry Delfiner; East European Quarterly, Vol. 33, 1999
Subjects: Bohemia--History, Diplomats--Biography, Holy Roman Empire--History, Wratislaw, Johann Wenzel--Biography
...Upper Danube. The battle of Schellenberg in June...Allied victory of Blenheim(*) in August of the...messages after the battles of Schellenberg and of Blenheim stressing his contribution...unbeknownst to Leopold the battle of Blenheim took place and indeed...
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1704: Blenheim, Gibraltar and the Making of Great Power: Jeremy Black Recalls Two Events, 300 Years Ago This Summer, That Heralded the Emergence of Britain as a Continental Power
Magazine article by Jeremy Black; History Today, Vol. 54, August 2004
Subjects: Battle of Blenheim, 1704, British history--1704 AD, United Kingdom--International relations
...the village of Blenheim, their retreat...centre. The battle had been hard...well as at Blenheim, he later used...the climax of the battles of Ramillies...to win other battles--notably Ramillies...dramatic impact of Blenheim, in part because...
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Marlborough Country: Charles Spencer Tells How the Victories of His Great Ancestor John Churchill Have Always Fascinated Him
Magazine article by Charles Spencer; History Today, Vol. 54, August 2004
Subjects: Battle of Blenheim, 1704, British history, Churchill, John--Achievements and awards
...Spencer Sunderland Earl of THE BATTLE OF Blenheim has always intrigued me. At...every general who fought at the battle of Blenheim, other than the Duke of Marlborough...project--inevitably, on the battle of Blenheim--it set the seal on my academic...
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The Battle for Venus: In 1906, the King Intervened to Save a Velazquez Masterpiece for the Nation. If Only Buckingham Palace, or Indeed Downing Street, Would Now Do the Same for Raphael's Madonna of the Pinks. by the Director of the National Gallery
Magazine article by Charles Saumarez Smith; New Statesman, Vol. 132, November 10, 2003
...Rokeby Venus and the Madonna of the Pinks. Since the 1880s, following the Duke of Marlboroughs sale of the contents of Blenheim Palace--which signalled the end of major paintings being imported from the Continent and the beginning of a period when...
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Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier
Magazine article by Jeremy Black; History Today, Vol. 57, October 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier (Book)--Book reviews
...Pepys criticism. Spencer, whose Blenheim: Battle for Europe (2004) was a well-deserved...wound. As Spencer points out, tales of brave forefathers heightened Ruperts...to breach the forts walls. At the battle of Vlotho (1638), Rupert was captured...
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Empires: Ancient and Modern
Magazine article by Paul A. Rahe; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 28, Summer 2004
Subjects: Empires--History, Empires--Research
...Blenheim. Of course, had the Battle of Blenheim been a fluke, as everyone at...that, in comparison with the Battle of Blenheim, the French Enlightenment and...them all." Had Louis won the Battle of Blenheim, "the famous battle in which...
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Relative Insight into a Great British Victory; Blenheim: Battle for Europe by Charles Spencer (Weidenfeld, [pounds Sterling]20)
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 2, 2004
Subjects: Sunderland, Charles Spencer, Earl of
...Blenheim: Battle for Europe...WHY has Blenheim been largely...the close of his thoughtful...and part of Marlboroughs...battlefield. The Blenheim campaign and the battle itself prefigured...far east as Blenheim again until...scenesetting of the Prologue...effective battle description...
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The Battle of Bomber Estate
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 29, 2006
The Battle of Bomber Estate. Byline...Lancaster, Halifax and the Blenheim. But perhaps not for much longer...9/11, the original meaning of the word has been lost on the...association and is made up of semidetached homes and flats...
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D-Day: Mighty Roar That Won Us the Day; the D-Day Landings Marked a Turning Point in World War II. the Occasion Also Provided the Backdrop for a Battle of Wits between an Array of Intriguing Personalities, as Peter Woodman Explains
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), June 5, 2004
Subjects: Hitler, Adolf
...the roar. Churchill had been born in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, on November 30, 1874...on April 20, 1889, in the Austrian town of Braunau. The German leaders father was...World War action. Churchill fought at the Battle of Omdurman in the Sudan in 1898 and opposed...
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Day of Glory as the Few Become the Many Again; WITH 21 SPITFIRES SOARING, BATTLE OF BRITAIN HEROES' MEMORIES TAKE WING
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 7, 1996
...German Messerschmitt and the Spitfires took off in hot pursuit. Battle of Britain pilots among the 30,000 crowd cheered as the planes...engines echoed once more around the sunny Cambridgeshire skies. Blenheim bomber memories Letters - Page 41
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Reed Battle Cry at Blenheim
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 10, 1996
...GEOFF FOSTER THE battle for control of exhibitions group Blenheim is hotting up...appears to be plenty of upside at Blenheim. A sudden bout...after an acrimonious battle. APV would be a much...further consideration of the planned restructuring...
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encyclopedia articles on: Blenheim Battle Of  - 4 results

 
 
1.
Blenheim, Battle Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BLENHEIM, BATTLE OF major engagement of the War of...fought on Aug. 13, 1704, at the village of Blenheim, near Hochstadt, Bavaria. Responding...the Austrian general, Prince Eugene of Savoy. At Blenheim their combined army overwhelmed a Franco-Bavarian...
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Spanish Succession, War of The
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...where he joined Eugene and won the great victory of Blenheim over the French under the count of Tallard (see Blenheim, battle of ), and the French lost Bavaria. Meanwhile, Portugal and Savoy had changed sides (1703), and in 1704 the English...
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Eugene of Savoy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...joined the duke of Marlborough in Bavaria, and together they won the signal victory of Blenheim . Returning to Italy, Eugene fought (1705) an inconclusive battle at Cassano against his cousin, Louis Joseph de Vendome . His invasion of Provence...
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Southey, Robert
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and a handful of short poems, notably "The Battle of Blenheim," "The Holly Tree," and the epic Vision of Judgment (1821). As a prose writer, however...Included among his prose works are biographies of Nelson (1813) and Wesley (1820), several histories...


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