Siege of Marchiennes (1712) | |||||||
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Part of the War of the Spanish Succession | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
![]() | Template:Flagd Major-General von Berkhoffer | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
22,000 20 artillery pieces[1] |
7,000 100 artillery pieces[1] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
400 killed and wounded[1] | 7,000 killed and captured[1] |
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The siege of Marchiennes was a siege of the city of Marchiennes in Northern France from 25 July to 30 July 1712 during the War of the Spanish Succession conducted by Duc de Villars. A French 22,000-strong army besieged and, with negligible resistance, recaptured the then Allied-controlled fortifications after a 5-day siege, with the 7,000-strong Dutch-Prussian garrison under Major-General von Berkhoffer either killed, wounded or taken prisoner.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Bodart 1908, p. 168.
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