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Battle of Walcourt
1689
25 August 1689
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War of the Grand Alliance

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Amid renewed fighting in the Spanish Netherlands, French under the Dukes Louis d’Humières and Claude de Villars clashed at Walcourt, south of Charleroi, with a Spanish-German army led by Prince George Frederic of Waldeck, supported by the English Brigade of the Duke of Marlborough. The French were heavily defeated and d’Humières lost his command.


   
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