WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION (1701–1714) / BAVARICA: Relation de la Battaille qui s’est donnée le 20me de Septembre 1703 sur la plaine de Höchstet entre l’armée françoise & bavaroise…

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WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION (1701–1714) / BAVARICA: Relation de la Battaille qui s’est donnée le 20me de Septembre 1703 sur la plaine de Höchstet entre l’armée françoise & bavaroise…

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[Report of the Battle, which Took Place on September 20, 1703 at he Plain of Höchstädt Between French and Bavarian Army…]

 

Large 4°, [4 pp.] letterpress (Very good with uncut edges, margins little age-toned).

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A contemporary report, describing the first Battle of Höchstädt an der Donau in Bavaria, which was fought on September 20, 1703, between the French-Bavarian army under Marshal Villars and the Austrians under General Hermann Otto of Limburg Styrum as a part of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714), resulting with the French-Bavarian victory.

The second battle, fought at the same location in the following year, became known as Battle of Blenheim.

We could trace two institutional examples, housed at the Bavarian State Library (2 Bavar. 1000,18#Beibd.1, title transcribed wrongly, click here for the scan: Relation de la Bataille … de Höchstadt : ce 20. Septbr. 1703 entre l’armée françoise et Bavaroise sous les ordres de S. A. E. de Bavière, et celle des imperiaux commandée par Comt. Styrumb | bavarikon) and Kungliga biblioteke, Stockholm.

References: OCLC 923999732.

 

 

 

 

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