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WSS
Campaign
Turn
One
Battle
of The Passes
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Captain
General John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough.
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Prince
François Eugène of Savoy
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Camille
d'Hostun de la Baume, Duc de Tallard, Marshall of France
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Prince
Maximilian II Emanuel Wittelsbach
Elector
of Bavaria
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Welcome
to the WSS Campaign
Battle
of The Passes
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 The
Battle of The Passes
Baden deployed his forces across the front
of the passes with the intent of swiftly advancing against the emerging
French to prevent them from deploying onto the plain.
The plan was stalled by the French who
brought their entire force down their left pass - and emerged with a strong
infantry division that immediately fell on the village ahead of them defended
by Baden's Prussian Meith troops.
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| Baden refused to accept that the French
would not emerge out of the other pass and would not move his left flank
until he had sent a strong scouting force into the pass to determine that
the French were in fact not using that route.
Baden did however advance his Prussian
Division fast towards the French with the intent of bottling them up in
the pass and preventing them from deploying their cavalry.
Here they can bee seen being supported
by two Militia battalions in the second line. |
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plan was good, but the Prussians were slowly pushed back towards the village,
This allowed Tallard to deploy his cavalry into the battle and they engaged
with the Imperial's Right horse and a savage cavalry battle ensued in which
the Gendarmerie were badly mauled.
The pressure was too great- and despite
taking equal losses with the French, The Prussian division broke. They
had no reserve, whereas the French. who had concentrated on the one flak
had a fresh division to bring in. |
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| Making it over from their left - in the
nick of time to prevent an utter rout, the French are delayed by the converged
Grenadier battalions of Swabia and Franconia. In an attempt to damage the
enemy infantry, Baden brought up his siege artillery and deployed the heavy
guns to the left of the village - but at this point, while the reinforcement
s from the left flank were still making their way across the battle field
- Baden felt his position was untenable.
Baden held on for a short while but then
began to extricate himself from the field. The French cavalry followed
up a short while but were themselves exhausted from combat. They did capture
some of Baden's siege guns which were unable to withdraw in time.
Tactically, the battle was a Phyrric victory
for the French- but an damaging strategic failure for the Imperials
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Allied Losses
1,875 foot
1250 horse
4 light guns
4 Medium Guns
12 Heavy Siege Guns
French Losses
2000 men
625 Horse
4 light gun.
2 medium guns |
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Return
to Campaign Head Quarters
Sic Transit Gloria
Mundi
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Copyright
1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Ian Croxall
Salem,
Oregon. USA
SIC
TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI
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