Qualla: Battle of Wijnendale https://qualla.com/battle-of-wijnendale en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:32 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/4/4/battle-of-wijnendale-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Wijnendale https://qualla.com/battle-of-wijnendale Battle of Wijnendale: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-wijnendale/ Photo credit Lambert de Hondt (II), Public domain. The most important thing on the field at Wijnendale on the afternoon of 28 September 1708 was not the soldiers. It was the wagons - 700 of them, slow and unwieldy, carrying powder and shot and bread, creaking south through the Flemish woods toward the siege of Lille. They had to get through. Marlborough's army, the most successful military instrument in Europe, would otherwise have to lift its siege and admit failure for the only time in a decade of victories. The men who held the bottleneck open were 7,500 British, Dutch, Prussian and Hanoverian troops drawn up among hedges and oaks near the village of Wijnendale, against 22,000 to 24,000 French and Spanish coming up to crush them. Their commander was John Richmond Webb. He had two hours.

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/4/4/battle-of-wijnendale-wp/u144-battle-of-wijnendale-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Wijnendale: The Siege That Was Running Out of Powder https://qualla.com/battle-of-wijnendale/ Photo credit Original uploader was Guy de gand at nl.wikipedia, Public domain. After Oudenarde in July 1708 - the field where Marlborough and Prince Eugene had broken the French in open battle - the Allied generals settled down to besiege Lille. It looked straightforward on a map. Lille was, however, defended by 16,000 men and by the fortifications of Vauba...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/4/4/battle-of-wijnendale-wp/u144-battle-of-wijnendale-the-siege-that-was-running-out-of-powder.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Wijnendale: Webb's Ground https://qualla.com/battle-of-wijnendale/ Photo credit Original uploader was Guy de gand at nl.wikipedia, Public domain. The French commander in Bruges was the Comte de la Mothe, and he was no fool. Informed of the convoy, he gathered between 22,000 and 24,000 men - three times Webb's force - and marched south to intercept it at the bottleneck around Wijnendale. Webb knew they were coming. He could...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/4/4/battle-of-wijnendale-wp/u144-battle-of-wijnendale-webbs-ground.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Wijnendale: 150 Cavalry Buying Time https://qualla.com/battle-of-wijnendale/ Photo credit Original uploader was Guy de gand at nl.wikipedia, Public domain. The hard part was time. Webb needed hours to deploy and to let the convoy clear his rear. He got those hours from a small Prussian named Carl von Lottum, who took 150 horsemen and rode out to harass the head of the French column. With nothing but speed and effrontery, Lottum's tr...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/4/4/battle-of-wijnendale-wp/u144-battle-of-wijnendale-150-cavalry-buying-time.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Wijnendale: The Two Hours https://qualla.com/battle-of-wijnendale/ Photo credit Original uploader was Guy de gand at nl.wikipedia, Public domain. The French guns opened between four and five o'clock. They did less damage than expected. La Mothe ordered his infantry forward. The huge French force, funnelled by the woods into the narrow open space, met the steady musketry of Webb's first line - and then, at point-blank range...

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]]> Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/4/4/battle-of-wijnendale-wp/u144-battle-of-wijnendale-the-two-hours.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Wijnendale: Webb and the Whigs https://qualla.com/battle-of-wijnendale/ Photo credit Original uploader was Guy de gand at nl.wikipedia, Public domain. Wijnendale should have been Webb's moment. Instead it became the start of his lifelong grievance. The initial dispatch in the London Gazette credited the victory to Cadogan, who had arrived only at the end. Marlborough's letters to Godolphin, the Lord Treasurer, did praise Webb d...

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