August 13, 1704 · Bavaria Theater
August 13, 1704
In the greatest Allied victory of the war, Marlborough and Eugene destroyed the Franco-Bavarian army on the banks of the Danube near the village of Blindheim. Marlborough pinned the French flanks by feinting at the villages of Blenheim and Oberglau, drawing in Tallard's reserves, then shattered the weakened French center with a massive cavalry charge. Marshal Tallard was captured. Thirteen thousand French and Bavarian soldiers were killed or wounded; fourteen thousand more, trapped in the village of Blenheim, surrendered.
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