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by Timothy Sheldrake

View of the north side of Grosvenor Square

Lake Maggiore

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Claude Louis Hector de Villars, French general Size:XL: 90 x 60cm by Timothy SheldrakeClaude Louis Hector de Villars, French general, (c19th century). One of the greatest generals of Louis XIV, Marshal Villars (1653 1734) was one of the principal French commanders of the War of the Spanish Succession, he was defeated by Marlborough at the Battle of Malplaquet (1709), although the Allied victory was pyrrhic one. His finest hour came at Denain in 1712 when he decisively defeated a Dutch and Austrian army commanded by Eugene of Savoy.

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