Battle of Elixheim
At the Battle of Elixheim, 18 July 1705, also known as the Passage of the Lines of Brabant during the War of the Spanish Succession, the Anglo-Dutch forces of the Grand Alliance, under the Duke of Marlborough, successfully broke through the French Lines of Brabant. These lines were an arc of defensive fieldworks stretching in a seventy-mile arc from Antwerp to Namur. Although the Allies were unable to bring about a decisive battle, the breaking and subsequent razing of the lines would prove critical to the Allied victory at Ramillies the next year.
| Battle of Elixheim | |||||||
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| Part of the War of the Spanish Succession | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Grand Alliance: Dutch Republic England Scotland | France | ||||||
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Duke of Marlborough Hendrik van Nassau-Ouwerkerk Comte de Noyelles Graf von Hompesch | Duke of Villeroi | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 70,000 (not all troops were engaged) | 70,000 (not all troops were engaged) | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 50–200 | 3,000 | ||||||
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