Battle of Ramillies
May 23, 1706
In three hours on a Flemish plateau, Marlborough broke a French army and, with it, French control of the Spanish Netherlands. Antwerp, Bruges, and Ghent fell in weeks. Louis XIV, reading the dispatches at Versailles, is said to have asked quietly whether God had forgotten everything he had done for Him.
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