Villeroi in a sentence

At conference it was decided that Eugene would return with 28,000 men to the Lines of Stollhofen on the Rhine to keep an eye on Villeroi and Tallard, and prevent them going to the aid of the Franco-Bavarian army on the Danube.

Barnett: Marlborough, 162 Villeroi’s right rested on the villages of Franquenée and Taviers, with the river Mehaigne protecting his flank.

Barnett: Marlborough, p. 89 With Villeroi shadowing Marlborough's every move, Marlborough's gamble that the French would not move against the weakened Dutch position in the Netherlands paid off.

Encouraged by these early gains Louis XIV urged Marshal Villeroi to go over to the offensive in the Spanish Netherlands and, with victory, gain a 'fair' peace.

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.

Henderson: Prince Eugen of Savoy, p. 103 However, if he withdrew from the Rhine to the Danube, Villeroi might also make a move south to link up with the Elector and Marsin.

Nevertheless, the danger passed, enabling the Duke to attend to the positioning of the cavalry reinforcements feeding down from his right flank – a change of which Villeroi remained blissfully unaware.

On the French side of the stream the ground rises to Offus, the village which, together with Autre-Eglise farther north, anchored Villeroi’s left flank.

Sweeping forwards, virtually without resistance, the 21 Danish squadrons reformed behind the French around the area of the Tomb of Ottomond, facing north across the plateau of Mont St André towards the exposed flank of Villeroi’s army.

Thanks to a combination of battle-smoke and favourable terrain, his redeployment went unnoticed by Villeroi who made no attempt to transfer any of his own 50 unused squadrons.

The Battle of Ramillies was Villeroi’s last command.

The disparity of numbers – exacerbated by Villeroi stripping their ranks of infantry to reinforce his left flank – enabled Overkirk's cavalry to throw the first line of French horse back in some disorder towards their second-line squadrons.

Trevelyan: England Under Queen Anne: Ramillies and the Union with Scotland, 121 Villeroi was helpless to arrest the process of collapse.

Trevelyan estimates Villeroi’s casualties at 13,000, but adds, ‘his losses by desertion may have doubled that number’.

Villeroi had given his personal attention to that wing and strengthened it with large bodies of horse and foot that ought to have been taking part in the decisive struggle south of Ramillies.

Villeroi meanwhile, was still moving more reserves of infantry in the opposite direction towards his left flank; crucially, it would be some time before the French commander noticed the subtle change in emphasis of the Allied dispositions.

Villeroi's capture caused a sensation in Europe, and had a galvanising effect on English public opinion.

Villeroi was convinced that Marlborough had won the Battle of Blenheim by mere chance.

With a short lift in the mist, Cadogan soon discovered the smartly ordered lines of Villeroi’s advance guard some convert off; a galloper hastened back to warn Marlborough.