Allied troops under John Churchill, the Earl…

Allied troops under John Churchill, the Earl of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy on August 13, 1704, defeat the Franco-Bavarian army in the Battle of Blenheim.

French losses are immense: over thirty thousand killed, wounded and missing.

The myth of French invincibility has moreover been destroyed and Louis's hopes of an early and victorious peace have been wrenched from his grasp.

Although the war will drag on for years, the Battle of Blenheim is probably its most decisive victory; Marlborough and Eugene, working indivisibly together, have saved the Habsburg Empire and thereby preserved the Grand Alliance from collapse.