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Events on Sunday 2 July 1747 1
1747Battle of LauffeldMarshal Saxe defeats the Allied army near MaastrichtIn the War of the Austrian Succession, a French army under Marshal Maurice de Saxe defeated an Allied force of British, Dutch, Austrian and Hanoverian troops commanded by the Duke of Cumberland near the village of Lauffeld. The victory opened the way for the French siege of Bergen op Zoom later that summer.