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Word: malplaquet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1936-1936
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...helped the Austrians turn back one of the last Turkish offensives in Europe and remained to become, at 34, Austrian Imperial Field Marshal. Allied with Britain's Marlborough and with the Germans, Eugene thoroughly spanked the armies of his onetime sovereign on such famed fields as Oudenarde and Malplaquet. Thus his career can be counted, according to necessity, for France, against France, against the Turks, for the Austrians or for the Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Happy Birthday | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

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