Sir, – Frank McNally's mention of the Irish Wild Geese fighting for France against Britain at the Battle of Fontenoy recalls an early skirmish in the fight for female emancipation (An Irishman's ...

A DAY or BATTLE—Vincent Sheean— Doubleday, Doran ($2.50).On May 11, 1745, at the base of a hill, between a dense woods and the River Scheldt in Flanders, the battle of Fontenoy was fought.

Like Waterloo, the Battle of Fontenoy was a close-run thing. And just as the arrival of Gen Blücher’s Prussians would tilt the balance for the Duke of Wellington in 1815, it was the late charge ...

A parade in Carlisle has commemorated 280 years since the Battle of Fontenoy. The parade, which was attended by members of the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment, the Army Cadets, and local veterans ...

Emily Lawless's verses about the Wild Geese on the eve of the battle of Fontenoy, in which they fought on the French side, have genuine poetry side by side with some aristocratic romanticism, as ...

The book opens with the British defeat at the hands of the French at the Battle of Fontenoy in 1745, which was followed a decade later by another French triumph over the British, this time with the ...

The parade commemorated the involvement of the 34th Regiment of Foot in the Battle of Fontenoy that took place on the 11th of May 1745. The 34th Regiment of Foot would eventually become the Duke ...