The Great British Battles

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Hilaire Belloc. The Great British Battles

The Great British Battles

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BLENHEIM

PART I. THE POLITICAL OBJECTIVE

PART II. THE EARLY WAR

PART III. THE MARCH TO THE DANUBE

PART IV. THE SEVEN WEEKS—THE THREE PHASES

The First Phase

The Second Phase

The Third Phase

PART V. THE ACTION

Footnotes:

TOURCOING

PART I. THE POLITICAL CIRCUMSTANCE

PART II. THE GENERAL MILITARY SITUATION

PART III. THE PLAN OF THE ALLIES

PART IV. THE PRELIMINARIES OF THE BATTLE

PART V. THE TERRAIN

PART VI. THE ACTION

I. THE FIRST COLUMN UNDER BUSSCHE

II. THE SECOND AND THIRD COLUMNS UNDER OTTO AND THE DUKE OF YORK

III. THE FOURTH AND FIFTH COLUMNS UNDER KINSKY AND THE ARCH-DUKE CHARLES

SUMMARY OF SITUATION ON THE SOUTH BY THE EVENING OF SATURDAY, MAY 17th

CLERFAYT’S COLUMN

SUNDAY, MAY the 18th, 1794

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CRÉCY

INTRODUCTION

I. THE POLITICAL CIRCUMSTANCES

II. THE CAMPAIGN OF CRÉCY

III. THE PRELIMINARIES OF THE BATTLE

IV. THE TERRAIN OF CRÉCY

V. THE ACTION

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WATERLOO

I. THE POLITICAL OBJECT AND EFFECT OF THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN

II. THE PRELIMINARIES: NAPOLEON’S ADVANCE ACROSS THE SAMBRE

The Advance

III. THE DECISIVE DAY

Friday the 16th of June. Quatre Bras and Ligny

LIGNY

Quatre Bras

IV. THE ALLIED RETREAT AND FRENCH ADVANCE UPON WATERLOO AND WAVRE

V. THE ACTION

The First Part of the Action

The Second Part of the Action

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MALPLAQUET

I. THE POLITICAL MEANING OF MALPLAQUET

II. THE SIEGE OF TOURNAI

III. THE MANŒUVRING FOR POSITION

IV. THE PRELIMINARIES OF THE BATTLE

V. THE ACTION

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POITIERS

INTRODUCTION

PART I. THE CAMPAIGN

PART II. THE PRELIMINARIES OF THE ACTION

PART III. THE TERRAIN

PART IV. THE ACTION

PART V. THE ASPECT OF THESE BATTLES

PART VI. THE RESULTS OF THE BATTLE

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Hilaire Belloc

Blenheim, Tourcoing, Crécy, Waterloo, Malplaquet, Poitiers

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In a lesser degree, the upper valley of the Danube and its tributaries, though these are largely in the nature of mountain torrents, forms another system of communications, nourishing considerable towns, drawing upon which communications, and relying upon which towns as centres of supply, an army may manœuvre.

But between the system of the Rhine and that of the Danube there runs a long sweep of very broken country, the Black Forest merging into the Swabian Jura, which in a military sense cuts off the one basin from the other.

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