Fleurus July 1, 1690

Started by MengJiao, November 22, 2021, 04:20:28 PM

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Fleurus and Ligny were certainly battle hot-spots.  if you look at this map (from the OSG Napoleon's last gamble), you can see Ligny and the Ferme de Chessart (a major part of the Spanish line in the 1622 battle there) and in 1794 the big battle of Fleurus was all over this map.  Here we are looking at sort of a version of the 1690 battle that destroyed William of Orange's forces in the Low Countries during the Nine-Years War.  Soult is playing Luxembourg and Davout is his ill-fated assistant.  Historically, Luxembourg's double-envelopment wrecked the opposing force, but who knows?  Anyway here's the set up sort of at sunrise on July 1:


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Quote from: MengJiao on November 22, 2021, 04:20:28 PM

Historically, Luxembourg's double-envelopment wrecked the opposing force, but who knows?  Anyway here's the set up sort of at sunrise on July 1:

  The retrospective diagnosis of what to do in the case of a double-envelopment (ie counter attack) seems to be correct, though my version seems a bit timid envelopment-wise.  Anyway the Orange Coalition counter-attacked and they seem to have survived the ensuing blood-bath in a moderately ahistorical and good way: