معركة بلنهايم

Battle of Blenheim
	جزء من حرب الخلافة الاسبانية
	; The Duke of Marlborough Signing the Despatch at Blenheim. Oil by Robert Alexander Hillingford.
التاريخ	13 August 1704
الموقع	Blenheim, Bavaria
النتيجة	نصر للحلفاء حاسم
المتحاربون
الامبراطورية الرومانية المقدسة: ملكية هابسبورگ; براندنبورگ-پروسيا; إنگلترة; هولندا; الدنمارك	فرنسا; ناخبية باڤاريا
القادة والزعماء
Duke of Marlborough; Prince Eugene of Savoy	Duc de Tallard; Ferdinand de Marsin; Maximilian II Emanuel
القوى
52,000 men,; 66 guns	56,000 men,; 90 guns
الضحايا والخسائر
4,542 killed,; 7,942 wounded	20,000 killed, drowned, or wounded,; 14,190 captured

معركة بلينهايم Battle of Blenheim وتسمى أحياناً معركة هوخ‌شتات الثانية، دارت رحاها في 13 أغسطس عام 1704م، وكانت نقطة تحول في حرب خلافة العرش الأسباني (1701-1714م) وإحدى المعارك الحاسمة في التاريخ الأوروبي. وقد هددت الجيوش الفرنسية والبافارية التي كان يقودها مارشال تالارد وماكس إمانويل البافاري بالاستيلاء على فيينا، ودفع دوق مارلبورو بالجنود الإنجليز لتنضم إلى القوات النمساوية تحت قيادة يوجين أمير ساڤوا، وهزم كلاهما الفرنسيين والبافاريين هزيمة نكراء بين القريتين البافاريتين بلندهايم، أو بلينهايم كما سماها الإنجليز، وهوخشتيدت على نهر الدانوب. وأنقذ الانتصار فيينا وطهر ألمانيا من جحافل الجند الفرنسيين. .

The position of the forces at noon, 13 August. Marlborough took control of the left arm of the Allied forces including the attacks on Blenheim and Oberglauheim, whilst Eugene commanded the right including the attacks on Lutzingen.

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بلنهايم

Part of the Battle of Blenheim tapestry at Blenheim Palace by Judocus de Vos. In the background is the village of Blenheim; in the middle ground are the two water mills that Rowe had to take to gain a bridgehead over the Nebel. The foreground shows a British grenadier with a captured French colour.

Allied attack on Oberglauheim.

وصلات خارجية

Battle of Blenheim animated battle map by Jonathan Webb
Battle of Blenheim

الهامش

^ All dates in the article are in the Gregorian calendar (unless otherwise stated). The Julian calendar as used in England in 1704 differed by eleven days. Thus, the battle of Blenheim was fought on 13 August (Gregorian calendar) or 2 August (Julian calendar). In this article (O.S) is used to annotate Julian dates with the year adjusted to 1 January. See the article Old Style and New Style dates for a more detailed explanation of the dating issues and conventions.
^ The village of Blindheim (Blenheim in English) lies on the Danube River, 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Donauwörth in Bavaria, southern Germany.
^ Weighley: The Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo, p. 87
^ Statistics taken from Chandler and Falkner. Some sources put the Allied strength at 56,000 and the Franco-Bavarian forces at 60,000. NOTE: The number of squadrons and battalions within each army differs depending on the source.

الهامش

اقرأ نصاً ذا علاقة في

Text on the Column of Victory in the grounds of Blenheim Palace

Barnett, Correlli. Marlborough. Wordsworth Editions Limited (1999). ISBN 1-84022-200-X
Chandler, David G. A Guide to the Battlefields of Europe. Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1998. ISBN 1-85326-694-9
Chandler, David G. Marlborough as Military Commander. Spellmount Ltd (2003). ISBN 1-86227-195-X
Churchill, Winston. Marlborough: His Life and Times, Bk. 1, vol. ii. University of Chicago Press, (2002). ISBN 0-226-10633-0
Coxe, William. Memoirs of the Duke of Marlborough: vol.i. London, (1847)
Falkner, James. Blenheim 1704: Marlborough's Greatest Victory. Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2004. ISBN 1-84415-050-X
Henderson, Nicholas: Prince Eugen of Savoy. Weidenfield & Nicolson (1966). ISBN 1-84212-597-4
Holmes, Richard (2008). Marlborough: England's Fragile Genius. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-722571-2
Lynn, John A. The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667–1714. Longman (1999). ISBN 0-582-05629-2
McKay, Derek. Prince Eugene of Savoy. Thames and Hudson Ltd., (1977). ISBN 0-50087-007-1
Spencer, Charles. Blenheim: Battle for Europe. Phoenix (2005). ISBN 0-304-36704-4
Tincey, John. Blenheim 1704: The Duke of Marlborough's Masterpiece. Osprey Publishing Ltd, 2004. ISBN 1-84176-771-9
Weighley, Russell. The Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo. Indiana University Press. 1991. ISBN 0-7126-5856-4

الكلمات الدالة:

[NewStyle-1] All dates in the article are in the Gregorian calendar (unless otherwise stated). The Julian calendar as used in England in 1704 differed by eleven days. Thus, the battle of Blenheim was fought on 13 August (Gregorian calendar) or 2 August (Julian calendar). In this article (O.S) is used to annotate Julian dates with the year adjusted to 1 January. See the article Old Style and New Style dates for a more detailed explanation of the dating issues and conventions.

[2] The village of Blindheim (Blenheim in English) lies on the Danube River, 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Donauwörth in Bavaria, southern Germany.

[3] Weighley: The Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo, p. 87

[4] Statistics taken from Chandler and Falkner. Some sources put the Allied strength at 56,000 and the Franco-Bavarian forces at 60,000. NOTE: The number of squadrons and battalions within each army differs depending on the source.

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