1705 conflict in the War of the Spanish Succession
Battle of Elixheim
Part of the War of the Spanish Succession
Date
18 July 1705
Location
Eliksem, Brabant, present-day Belgium
Result
Anglo-Dutch victory
Belligerents
Grand Alliance: Dutch Republic England Scotland
France[1]
Commanders and leaders
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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War of the Spanish Succession Europe
Low Countries and Upper France
1st Fort Isabella
Middelburg
Saint Donas
Nijmegen
Venlo
Stevensweert
Roermond
1st Liége
Hulst
Groesbeek
Tongeren
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Ekeren
1st Huy
Limburg
2nd Fort Isabella
2nd Huy
2nd Liége
3rd Huy
Elixheim
Zoutleeuw
Zandvliet
Diest
Ramillies
Antwerp
Ostend
Menin
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Ath
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Wijnendale
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Mons
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Grovestins' Cavalry Raid
Denain
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2nd Douai
2nd Le Quesnoy
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Knocke
Germany and Upper Rhine
Kaiserswerth
1st Landau
Friedlingen
Rheinberg
1st Trarbach
Andernach
Neubourg
Geldern
Kehl
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Munderkingen
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Höchstädt
Speyerbach
2nd Landau
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Schellenberg
Rain
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Ingolstadt
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Ulm
3rd Landau
2nd Trarbach
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Stollhofen
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4th Landau
Freiburg
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Luzzara
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Hungary
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Schmöllnitz
Raab
Páta
Nagyszombat
Zsibó
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Kölesd
Kassa
Nagymajtény
Naval battles
Vigo Bay
Cap de la Roque
Cape Spartel
Málaga
Cabrita Point
Beachy Head
Lizard Point
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.[2] 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.
^
"...the standard of France was white, sprinkled with golden fleur de lis..." (Ripley & Dana 1879, p. 250).
On the reverse of this plate it says: "Le pavillon royal était véritablement le drapeau national au dix-huitième siecle...Vue du chateau d'arrière d'un vaisseau de guerre de haut rang portant le pavillon royal (blanc, avec les armes de France)" (Vinkhuijzen collection 2011).
"The oriflamme and the Chape de St Martin were succeeded at the end of the 16th century, when Henry III., the last of the house of Valois, came to the throne, by the white standard powdered with fleurs-de-lis. This in turn gave place to the famous tricolour"(Chisholm 1911, p. 460).
^Chandler, Marlborough as Military Commander; p 158
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