Schellenberg, a village 9 miles S. of Salzburg, near the south-east border of Bavaria, was the scene of the first engagement in the war of the Spanish succession in which the English took part. Marlborough's army of 40,000 men drove an Austrian corps of 12,000 from the fortified heights above the village, after a short, fierce fight, on 4th July 1704.
Schellenberg
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 205
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