Siege of Lille (1708)

:"See also Siege of Lille (1667)"Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Siege of Lille


caption=
partof=the War of the Spanish Succession
date=August 12-December 10, 1708
place=Lille, France
result=Allied victory
combatant1=flagicon|UK|1606 Great Britain
flagicon|Netherlands|pri United Provinces
flagicon|Habsburg Monarchy Habsburg Austria
combatant2=flagicon|France|restauration [George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana, "The American Cyclopaedia", New York, 1874, p. 250, "...the standard of France was white, sprinkled with golden fleur de lis...". * [http://www.anyflag.com/history/fleur23.htm] The original Banner of France was strewn with fleurs-de-lis. * [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgdisplaylargemeta.cfm?strucID=585779&imageID=1236061&parent_id=585395&word=&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&num=0&imgs=12&total=98&pos=1&snum=] :on the reverse of this plate it says: "Le pavillon royal était véritablement le drapeau national au dix-huitième siecle...Vue du chateau d'arrière d'un vaisseau de guerre de haut rang portant le pavillon royal (blanc, avec les armes de France)." [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Flag] from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica: "The oriflamme and the Chape de St Martin were succeeded at the end of the 16th century, when Henry III., the last of the house of Valois, came to the throne, by the white standard powdered with fleurs-de-lis. This in turn gave place to the famous tricolour."] Kingdom of France
commander1=Duke of Marlborough
Eugene of Savoy
commander2=Louis François, duc de Boufflers
strength1=35,000 besiegers + covering force
strength2=16,000 + relief force of 110,000
casualties1=
casualties2=The Siege of Lille (12 August-10 December 1708) was a siege of the War of the Spanish Succession, which led to the surrender of the city and citadel of Lille, commanded by Marshal Boufflers to the forces of the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene. The siege of Lille was made possible by the landing in Ostend of large amounts of ammunition and food after the Battle of Wijnendale ( [http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slag_bij_Wijnendale] ). For most of the campaign, Eugene commanded the forces besieging Lille, while Marlborough commanded the forces covering those forces against external French interference. For a short period in late September however, after Eugene was injured on the 21st, Marlborough took command of both the besiegers and the covering force.

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* [http://www.spanishsuccession.nl/lille.html The siege of Lille 1708]