Battle of Fontenoy
April 30, 1745
Marshal de Saxe, a Saxon bastard in French service, defeated the Duke of Cumberland's Anglo-Dutch army in Flanders through a redoubt, a rallied infantry, and his own stretcher-borne genius. Gentlemen of the English Guards, an officer is said to have called, fire first. The courtesy made the battle famous. It also lost it.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.