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Steenkerke, Battle of

Years: 1692 - 1692

The Battle of Steenkerque (Steenkerque also spelled Steenkerke or Steenkirk) is fought on August 3, 1692, as a part of the Nine Years' War.

It results in the victory of the French under Marshal François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg against a joint English-Scottish-Dutch-German army under Prince William of Orange.

The battle takes place near the village of Steenkerque in the Southern Netherlands, 50 km southwest of Brussels.

Steenkerque is presently part of the Belgian municipality of Braine-le-Comte.

"Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?"

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Orator (46 BCE)