Siege of Bouchain (1711)

Siege of Bouchain
	Part of the War of the Spanish Succession
	; Map of the siege taken from 'Histoire d'Iwuy'
Date	5 August – 12 September 1711
Location	Bouchain, France50°17′04″N 3°19′04″E / 50.2844°N 3.3178°E
Result	Grand Alliance victory
Belligerents
Great Britain; Dutch Republic; Habsburg Austria;	France
Commanders and leaders
Duke of Marlborough ; François Nicolas Fagel	Ravignan
Strength
30,000	5,000
Casualties and losses
3,000 killed	1,800 killed or wounded; 3,200 captured;

The siege of Bouchain (9 August – 12 September 1711), following the Passage of the Lines of Ne Plus Ultra (5 August 1711), was a siege of the War of the Spanish Succession, and the last major victory of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Marlborough and François Nicolas Fagel broke through the French defensive lines and took Bouchain after a siege of 34 days. Its capture left Cambrai the only French-held fortress between the allied army and Paris.

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- "... 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).
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Bodart 1908, p. 166.

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"... 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).

[2] "... the standard of France was white, sprinkled with golden fleur de lis ..." (Ripley & Dana 1879, p. 250).

[3] 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).

[4] "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).

[FOOTNOTEBodart1908166-2] Bodart 1908, p. 166.

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