. Bourbon and Vasa ; a textbook of European history, 1610-1715, with a summary of the events immediately preceding. by forced marches to join EugeneMarlborough, and reached Hochstadt on the Danube on i°oo„gh/^August 6, only a day or two after Tallard had joined theElector near Augsburg. Marlborough was now enabledto detach his uncongenial and over-cautious colleague^Louis of Baden, to besiege Ingolstadt, the only strongfortress on the path to Vienna, while he himself got intotouch with Eugene. In the meantime, Tallard and the Elector crossed tothe north of the Danube at Dillingen hoping to cat
. Bourbon and Vasa ; a textbook of European history, 1610-1715, with a summary of the events immediately preceding. by forced marches to join EugeneMarlborough, and reached Hochstadt on the Danube on i°oo„gh/^August 6, only a day or two after Tallard had joined theElector near Augsburg. Marlborough was now enabledto detach his uncongenial and over-cautious colleague^Louis of Baden, to besiege Ingolstadt, the only strongfortress on the path to Vienna, while he himself got intotouch with Eugene. In the meantime, Tallard and the Elector crossed tothe north of the Danube at Dillingen hoping to catchEugene isolated, or at least to cut the Allies line of T 3 276 THE SPANISH SUCCESSION WAR [cH. XI communication. Marlborough,however,also concentratedto the north of the river and joined Eugene, and on the13th their combined forces attacked the enemy. The Franco-Bavarian forces were arranged behindthe Nebel, a little rivulet running southwards into theDanube. Their right, with Tallard in command, restedon the village of Blindheim (which in its corruptedEnglish form gives its name to the battle), which was. ^n^cuOh^V^a^ hoo. ^ . . I ? End Miles I u 1 stockaded and occupied in great strength. Their leftunder Marsin and the Elector stretched from the villageof Oberglauheim to the line of wooded hills parallel toand about three miles to the north of the Danube. Marlborough grasped the important facts that hisenemies centre was the weak spot, that Blenheim andOberglauheim were too far apart to support one anotherproperly, and that the cavalry in the centre was postedtoo far back to dispute the passage of the Nebel cffec- CH. XI] THE SPANISH SUCCESSION WAR 277 tively. Therefore, dispatching Eugene through the woodson the north to keep Marsin engaged, he divertedTallards attention from the centre by fierce frontalattacks upon Blenheim. These attacks failed and theAllies suffered severe losses, which however were justified,since Tallard further weakened his centre by massingadditi
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