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Historyzine 019: The Battle of Oudenarde

Posted on 2010-04-28 by jimmowatt

Historyzine’s retelling of The War of the Spanish Succession now reaches the year 1708 and the Battle of Oudenarde. The Duke of Burgundy and the Marshall Vendome make initial gains in the Spanish Netherlands moving swiftly to take control of … Continue reading →

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Historyzine 018: 1707

Posted on 2010-02-19 by jimmowatt

Historyzine now moves into the year 1707 in the saga of the War of the Spanish Succession. This year the allies are looking to attack Toulon and hopefully make more gains in the Spanish Netherlands. The Duke of Marlborough has … Continue reading →

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Historyzine 017: The Aftermath of Ramillies

Posted on 2010-01-29 by jimmowatt

Historyzine 17 features 1706 and the Aftermath of Battle of Ramilies as well as the relief of Turin in our War of the Spanish Succession section. In the linguistic history trivia bit we’ll be looking at a couple of printing … Continue reading →

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Historyzine 016 – Ramillies

Posted on 2009-11-04 by jimmowatt

This is Historyzine, Episode 16 featuring 1706 and the War of the Spanish Succession. In Spain, Lord Peterborough and the Archduke Charles are busily not speaking to each other when perhaps they should be putting Charles on the throne and … Continue reading →

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Historyzine 014: Forcing the lines of Brabant (1705)

Posted on 2009-02-27 by jimmowatt

Family History – connecting up with large scale history. I’ve recently spent a considerable amount of time delving into my family history and been quite delighted by the reflection of large scale events such as the industrial revolution, highland clearances … Continue reading →

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Historyzine 012: The Battle of Blenheim

Posted on 2008-08-27 by jimmowatt

In Historyzine 12 our main feature is 1704 and the battle of Blenheim. John Churchill (Duke of Marlborough) is rampaging around Bavaria with the Dutch, Hesse, Austrian, Hanoverian and English troops. Gathering against him under the command of Marshall Tallard, … Continue reading →

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Historyzine 009: The March to Blenheim

Posted on 2008-07-10 by jimmowatt

This issue features a review of the Richard Holmes book on Marlborough and in the section on the War of the Spanish Succession we look at the march of the allied troops across Europe and take a peek at some … Continue reading →

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