Battle of Schellenberg
The Battle of Schellenberg was fought on 2 July 1704. It was part of the Grand Alliance’s campaign to prevent the Franco-Bavarian army from threatening Vienna, the capital of Habsburg Austria. The Allies’ task was to induce Max Emanuel, the Elector of Bavaria, to abandon his allegiance to Louis XIV.
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The Battle of Schellenberg was fought on 2 July 1704. It was part of the Grand Alliance’s campaign to prevent the Franco-Bavarian army from threatening Vienna, the capital of Habsburg Austria. The Allies’ task was to induce Max Emanuel, the Elector of Bavaria, to abandon his allegiance to Louis XIV. To force the issue, the Allies first needed to secure a fortified bridgehead and magazine on the Danube. For this purpose, Marlborough selected the town of Donauwörth. After two failed attempts to storm the barricades, the Allied commanders, acting in unison, finally managed to overwhelm the defenders. It had taken just two hours to secure the bridgehead over the river in a hard-fought contest, but following the victory, momentum was lost to indecision. The decisive action at the Battle of Blenheim the following month was the result of the Allies’ successful assault on the town. The Elector and his co-commander, Marshal Marsin, moved their forces into Dillingen on the north bank of theDanube. The Allied commanders combined their forces to attack such a strong position, rendering it impregnable by redoubts and unwilling to attack. The English regiments were engaged in the battle when the Allies were re-supplylyly for the south of the river when the English were forced to retreat. The battle was won by the Allies, and the Electors were forced back into the Imperial fold by the end of the battle.
The Grand Alliance was eventually defeated by the French in 1704 and the war ended in 1705. The Battle of Schlossberg was the last major battle of the War of the Spanish Succession, which ended in March 1705, with the defeat of Louis XIV’s Franco-bavarian forces in the Rhine valley. The French and the Germans were able to regain control of Alsace and the Moselle, but not of the rest of Germany. The war ended with the Treaty of Versailles, signed in 1706, which established the borders of the Holy Roman Empire between Germany and the Netherlands. The Treaty was signed by King Louis XIV and the Emperor Leopold I, and was the first step in the formation of the modern-day German state of Germany, which was to be ruled by the Hohenzollern. The treaty was signed in May 1704, and included a series of concessions to the French, including the right to use the River Danube to supply the Allies with food and other supplies. It also included the right of the French to take part in any future conflicts with the Spanish, and of the Germans to defend themselves against any future French attacks on their borders. The treaties were signed in June 1704; the Treaty was not signed until July 1705; and it was only then that the French and Germans agreed to the terms of the treaty. The allies also agreed to share the spoils of the war, which included a large part of Germany’s oil wealth.
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