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"Beautiful scenery"<br> Scenery in The Cotswolds picture - - There's actualy 2 small, square ponds at the back of the palace. *At a cost of 12,000 casualties, the Allies captured 13,000 Franco-Bavarian troops and killed, wounded, or caused to be drowned (in the Danube river) approximately 18,000 more. Overall, the Battle of Blenheim saved Vienna from the French & demonstrated that the armies of the French king Louis XIV were by no means irresistible.
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- There's actualy 2 small, square ponds at the back of the palace.
*At a cost of 12,000 casualties, the Allies captured 13,000 Franco-Bavarian troops and killed, wounded, or caused to be drowned (in the Danube river) approximately 18,000 more.
Overall, the Battle of Blenheim saved Vienna from the French & demonstrated that the armies of the French king Louis XIV were by no means irresistible.
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