Malplaquet, in France, famous for the victory of the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene over the French under Marshal Villars on September 11, 1709.
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“Her courage tried
On Teniersʹ dreadful field.”
Thomson: Autumn.
The Scottish Teniers. Sir David Wilkie (1785–1841).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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