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The Battle of Fontenoy 1745 (1039 words) |
 | British Regiments: Fontenoy is not a battle honour for British regiments. |
| It was apparent that the French were occupying St Anthoine and Fontenoy but the whereabouts of the rest of the French army was uncertain. |
| Fontenoy could be seen on the left and opened fire with its cannon on the foot. |
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FONTENOY - LoveToKnow Article on FONTENOY (1809 words) |
| On the left rear of this line, and separated from Fontenoy by some furlongs of open ground, another redoubt was made at the corner of the wood of Barry and a fifth towards Gavrain. |
| A second halfhearted attack on Fontenoy itself, delivered by some Dutch troops, was almost made successful by the valour of two of these battalions (one of them being the then newly raised Highland regiment, the Black Watch) which came thither of their own accord. |
| Fontenoy was in the 18th century what the attack of the Prussian Guards at St Privat is to-day, a locus classicus for military theorists. |
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