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Marlborough Fine Art: RAMILLIES, Battle of, ra-me-ye', engage-icnt of the War of the Spanish Succession. On lay 23, 1706, the British, Dutch, and Danish troops ider the 1st duke of Marlborough succeeded in riving the French under the due de Villeroi from ic village of Ramillies in the Spanish Nether-nds (now in Brabant, Belgium), 13 miles northeast of Namur. Marlborough's strategy was brilliant, and he himself took part in the fighting, although the Dutch bore the brunt of the battle on the Allied side.
Stark grotesqueries and nightmare daubs can't be art. But maybe you'll have better luck. Try the exhibitions of contemporary art at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, 17 Dover St., off Piccadilly. Among private galleries, an art-wise Londoner has given me these addresses: Beaux Arts Gallery, Bruton Place; Lefevre Gallery, 30 Bruton Place; Gimpel Fils, 50 South Molton St.; Hanover Gallery, 32A St. George St; Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., 17 Old Bond St.; Redfern Gallery, 20 Cork St.; and Roland, Browse and Delbanco, 19 Cork St
Some 60,000 men were involved on either side. Through Marlborough's following up the victory by pursuing the French as they fled, the French lost some 15,000 men and the Allies only 4,000. As a result of the battle the French evacuated the chief strongholds in the Spanish Netherlands. |
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