Malplaquet (France)
Malplaquet is the name of two places in Belgium and a place in France: * Malplaquet, Liège at * Malplaquet, Hainaut at * Malplaquet (France) in which the Battle of Malplaquet was fought *The Battle of Malplaquet (11 September 1709) between the French and the Allies, the largest 18th-century European battle *Malplaquet Palace, a fictional estate in Northamptonshire, England, in the 1946 novel ''Mistress Masham's Repose ''Mistress Masham's Repose'' (1946) is a novel by T. H. White that describes the adventures of a girl who discovers a group of Lilliputians, a race of tiny people from Jonathan Swift's satirical classic ''Gulliver's Travels''. The story is set ...

Malplaquet (France)
Malplaquet is the name of two places in Belgium and a place in France: * Malplaquet, Liège at * Malplaquet, Hainaut at * Malplaquet (France) in which the Battle of Malplaquet was fought *The Battle of Malplaquet (11 September 1709) between the French and the Allies, the largest 18th-century European battle *Malplaquet Palace, a fictional estate in Northamptonshire, England, in the 1946 novel ''Mistress Masham's Repose ''Mistress Masham's Repose'' (1946) is a novel by T. H. White that describes the adventures of a girl who discovers a group of Lilliputians, a race of tiny people from Jonathan Swift's satirical classic ''Gulliver's Travels''. The story is set ...

Battle Of Malplaquet
The Battle of Malplaquet took place on 11 September 1709 during the War of the Spanish Succession and was fought between a French army commanded by the Duke of Villars and a Grand Alliance force under the Duke of Marlborough. In one of the bloodiest battles of the 18th century, the Allies won a narrow victory but suffered heavy casualties, while the French were able to withdraw in good order. At the start of 1709, the French state seemed on the verge of collapse, its treasury empty and food scarce while Allied advances in 1708 left the kingdom open to an invasion. These factors made the Allies overconfident and their excessive demands led to the collapse of peace talks in April. Villars had been instructed to avoid battle but after the capture of Tournai in early September, the Allies moved against Mons and Louis XIV of France ordered him to prevent its loss. Although the two armies made contact on 10 September, Marlborough delayed his attack until the next day, giving Villar ...
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