On August 4, 1711, the allied forces under the Duke of Marlborough grimly prepared for the worst. The French Marshal Villars had positioned his forces in a seemingly unassailable position behind a river. Cannons lay ready to obliterate anyone foolhardy enough to attack.
Entrenched French soldiers waited gleefully to get the best of their English and Dutch enemies. Yet there is no record of any insubordination or complaints from Marlborough’s soldiers regarding the suicide mission.
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