The Nightmare of Neerwinden, July 29 1693

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MengJiao

The biggest battle of the Nine-years War as portrayed in GMT's Bayonet and Musket Series vol1, Banish all their Fears

So Luxembourg, leading the French Army, traps William III's combined allied army (England, the Dutch, the Spanish etc.) at Neerwinden in the Spanish Netherlands.  The Allies dig in.  The French attack and the result is massive bloodshed.  Eventually the Allies withdraw, losing most of their artillery and baggage and one of the Churchills captures their illegitimate cousin after the one of Jacobite English brigades falls apart.
Anyway, I'm just running the far wings near Neerlanden for practice, not the whole battle.  The Jacobite Royal Guards are on this front in D'Allincourt's Brigade. 

MengJiao

8:40 am -- things get violent -- Opdam's Dutch cavalry Bde charges and Rocheguyon attacks the breastworks:


MengJiao

Quote from: MengJiao on January 26, 2024, 07:31:05 PM8:40 am -- things get violent -- Opdam's Dutch cavalry Bde charges and Rocheguyon attacks the breastworks:


The Dutch cavalry attack went well and routed a French Brigade, but the French patched things up by 10Am: