Ramillies

Ramillies, a village of Brabant, Belgium, 14 miles by rail N. of Namur, is memorable as the place near which, on May 23, 1706, the French forces under Marshal Villeroy and the Elector of Bavaria were defeated by Marlborough, with the loss of almost all their cannon and baggage, and thirteen thousand killed and wounded. This victory compelled the French to give up the whole of the Spanish Netherlands.