Category: History - European
That British troops formed part of those who suffered defeat, and that a British commander, the Duke of York, was the chief figure in the reverse, affords no explanation; for the almost exactly parallel case of Fontenoy--in which another royal duke, also the son of the reignin...
At about ten o'clock in the morning of Friday the 16th of May, Clerfayt, in his positions right up north beyond the Lys--positions which lay at and in front of the town of Thiel...
3. Chapter 3If the reader will look at the map opposite he will see in what disposition the armies of the allies were, at the end of April and the first days of May 1794, to carry into effe...
2. Chapter 2In order to understand what happened at the Battle of Tourcoing, it is first necessary to have in mind the general situation of the forces which opposed each other round and abo...
4. Chapter 4Tourcoing is an action the preliminaries of which are easy to describe, and need occupy little of our space, because it was a battle in which the plan of one side was developed...
1. Chapter 1That British troops formed part of those who suffered defeat, and that a British commander, the Duke of York, was the chief figure in the reverse, affords no explanation; for th...
6. Chapter 6shows upon the landscape, but the general impression of one who walks across from the valley of the Lys to that of the Scheldt is of a flat, monotonous land in which one retains...
5. Chapter 5The terrain over which the plan of the allies was to be tested must next be grasped if we are to understand the causes which led to its ultimate failure.