id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 32257 Belloc, Hilaire Malplaquet .txt text/plain 19784 1045 73 This action, fought in August 1704, was the first great defeat French arms The allied army to march to the extreme right of the positions which the a "feint" upon Villars' lines and to direct the army upon Tournai as its [Illustration: Sketch Map showing the Lines of Woods behind Mons, with the movement of the mass of the French army along that line to their present forced, the French line would be turned and the destruction of the army either of the woods was forced before the French centre should break, The other end of the allied position consisted in two great forces of and right away on the left on the _French side_ of the forest of Sars, was victory for the allied forces by their right turning the French left--and the destruction of the French army would have followed, had not trees was so great, that the French forces once outside the wood could ./cache/32257.txt ./txt/32257.txt