The Battle of Malplaquet Size:S: 50 x 25cm Edwards AD 1759'

Edwards AD 1759'

2nd August 1961

Plate 42 from the paper 'On the placenta'

Napoleon III decided that the subjects of the queen of Great Britain and Ireland would be free to enter France without passports

'Marriage a la mode

The Battle of Malplaquet Size:S: 50 x 25cm Edwards AD 1759'The Battle of Malplaquet, 11 September 1709, (1910). Malplaquet was the last great battle of the War of the Spanish Succession. The British, Austrians and Dutch commanded by the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated the French under Villars and Boufflers, but at the cost of such severe casualties that they were unable to pursue their planned march on Paris.