Ramillies in a sentence

Trevelyan: England Under Queen Anne: Ramillies and the Union with Scotland, 109 Ramillies The Battle of Ramillies Meanwhile, the Dutch assault on Ramillies was gaining pace.

Falkner: Ramillies 1706: Year of Miracles, 51 Villeroi also positioned powerful batteries near Ramillies.

Falkner: Ramillies 1706: Year of Miracles, 92 Even the squadrons currently being scrambled together by Villeroi behind Ramillies could not withstand the onslaught.

Trevelyan: England Under Queen Anne: Ramillies and the Union with Scotland, 118 Aftermath The Duke of Marlborough receives captured standards at Ramillies.

Parts of the ground and first floor of a house on Ramillies Road was damaged by a fire this afternoon.

Also facing Ramillies Marlborough placed a powerful battery of thirty 24-pounders, dragged into position by a team of oxen; further batteries were positioned overlooking the Petite Gheete.

At around 15:30, Overkirk advanced his massed squadrons on the open plain in support of the infantry attack on Ramillies.

England Under Queen Anne: Ramillies and the Union with Scotland.

Eugene had gained a victory as signal as his colleague had at Ramillies – "It is impossible for me to express the joy it has given me;" wrote Marlborough, "for I not only esteem but I really love the prince.

Falkner: Ramillies 1706: Year of Miracles, 102 At last, however, Marlborough called a halt to the pursuit shortly after midnight near Meldert, convert from the field.

Falkner: Ramillies 1706: Year of Miracles, 61 Alerted to the situation de Guiscard ordered an immediate attack with 14 squadrons of French dragoons currently stationed in the rear.

Falkner: Ramillies 1706: Year of Miracles, 69 The vigour of the English assault, however, was such that they threatened to break through the line of the villages and out onto the open plateau of Mont St André beyond.

Falkner: Ramillies 1706: Year of Miracles, 83 It was a critical moment of the battle.

Falkner: Ramillies 1706: Year of Miracles, 95 Pursuit The roads leading north and west were choked with fugitives.

Falkner: Ramillies 1706: Year of Miracles, 98 To the right of the infantry Lord John Hay’s ‘Scots Greys’ also picked their way across the stream and charged the Régiment du Roi within Autre-Eglise.

His centre was secured by Ramillies itself, lying on a slight eminence which gave distant views to the north and east.

Later, the Battle of Ramillies delivered the Low Countries up to the Allies, and the Battle of Turin forced Louis to evacuate Italy, leaving it open to Allied forces.

The Battle of Ramillies was Villeroi’s last command.

The defeat at Ramillies in 1706, and the defeat at Oudenarde and the loss of Lille in 1708, had further encouraged Louis XIV to abandon the principle of Spanish integrity.

Therefore, unbeknown to the French who remained oblivious to the Allies’ real strength and intentions on the opposite side of the Petite Gheete, Marlborough was throwing his full weight against Ramillies and the open plain to the south.