Oudenarde

Oudenarde (Audenarde), a town of Belgium, on the Scheldt, 37 miles W. of Brussels. It has a fine flamboyant Gothic town-hall (1535) and two interesting churches. Margaret of Parma was born here. Pop. 5864. In 1706 Oudenarde was taken by Marlborough; and an attempt made by the French to retake it brought on the famous battle of Oudenarde, the third of Marlborough's four great victories, which was gained, on the 11th July 1708, with the aid of Prince Eugene, over a French army under the Duke of Burgundy and Marshal Villars.