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OUIDA (MARIA LOUISE DE LA RAMEE) - LoveToKnow Article on OUIDA (MARIA LOUISE DE LA RAMEE) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28) |
 | | The battle of Oudenarde was not the greatest of Marlborough's victories, but it affords almost the best illustration of his military character. |
 | | Contrary to all the rules of war then in vogue, he fought a piecemeal and unpremeditated battle, with his back to a river, and with wearied troops, and the event justified him. |
 | | He was the beau-ideal of an infantry general, energetic, thoroughly conversant with detail, and in battle as resolute and skilful as any of the marshals of Napoleon. |
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