blarignies

Updated: May 15, 2026

The gazetteers and writers, both of the French and English side, have given accounts sufficient of that bloody battle of Blarignies or Malplaquet, which was the last and the hardest earned of the victories of the great Duke of Marlborough.

William Makepeace Thackeray - The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne