Malplaquet

Malplaquet, a village in the French department of Nord, 10 miles S. of Mons in Belgium. Here, on 11th September 1709, over 90,000 British and Dutch, under Marlborough and Prince Eugene, defeated about the same number of French under Marshal Villars. In this 'very murderous battle,' as Marlborough called it, the loss of the allies was from twenty to thirty thousand, of the French from six to sixteen thousand. Its result was the capture of Mons.