Battle of Elixheim

Battle of Elixheim
Part of the War of the Spanish Succession
Date18 July 1705
Location
Eliksem, Brabant, present-day Belgium
Result Anglo-Dutch victory
Belligerents
Grand Alliance:
 Dutch Republic
 England
 Scotland		  France
Commanders and leaders
Marlborough
Nassau-Ouwerkerk
Noyelles		 Villeroi
Caraman
Strength
70,000 (not all troops were engaged) 70,000 (not all troops were engaged)
Casualties and losses
50–200 3,000

At the Battle of Elixheim, 18 July 1705, also known as the Passage of the Lines of Brabant during the War of the Spanish Succession, the Anglo-Dutch forces of the Grand Alliance, under the Duke of Marlborough, successfully broke through the French Lines of Brabant. These lines were an arc of defensive fieldworks stretching in a seventy-mile arc from Antwerp to Namur. Although the Allies were unable to bring about a decisive battle, the breaking and subsequent razing of the lines would prove critical to the Allied victory at Ramillies the next year.

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