1706 in History

Uses Saxony as a base while preparing for the Russian campaign.

Charles XII compels Augustus II to abandon his Polish claims and end his alliance with Russia.

Assists Leake in relieving Barcelona.

Bruges passes into Allied control during the rapid campaign following the victory at Ramillies.

Marlborough exploits Ramillies as Brussels and other major towns submit to the Allied advance.

Marlborough exploits victory at Ramillies as many towns in the Spanish Netherlands surrender to the Allies.

Antwerp surrenders to Marlborough's victorious Allied army after Ramillies.

Receives Brussels after the victory at Ramillies.

Leake supports Allied naval operations that bring Cartagena into the Habsburg camp.

Marlborough captures Dendermonde during the Allied advance through the Spanish Netherlands.

Secures Mechelen during the Allied advance.

Marlborough captures Menin during the Allied campaign after Ramillies.

Ostend is captured by Allied forces after the Ramillies campaign.

Philippe II of Orleans takes senior command in Italy during the crisis before Turin.

Peterborough enters Valencia and expands Allied influence in eastern Spain.

Villeroy's army is defeated at Ramillies, triggering a rapid French loss of positions across Flanders.

Vendome assumes command of French field forces and reorganises their deployment after Villeroy's defeat.

Ghent submits as Marlborough rapidly exploits the collapse of French positions after Ramillies.

Overkirk serves with Marlborough during the Grand Alliance victory at Ramillies.

Manoeuvres against Peter I and Russian forces around Grodno.

Villeroy's defeat at Ramillies leads to rapid Allied gains across Brabant and Flanders.

Personally helps lead a cavalry counter-charge during the close fighting that precedes the French collapse at Ramillies.

Presses the French left at Ramillies, encouraging Villeroi to commit reinforcements away from the sector Marlborough intends to exploit.

Shifts Allied troops across the battlefield to reinforce the decisive attack while masking the movement from the French command.

Queen Anne's government celebrates the victory at Ramillies and the collapse of French control in Brabant.

Marlborough's victory at Ramillies causes much of the Spanish Netherlands to fall under Allied control.

Byng takes part in the naval relief of Barcelona during the 1706 campaign.

Leake's fleet relieves Barcelona and forces the Bourbon siege to collapse.

Relieves Barcelona and forces the Bourbon siege to fail.

Invades Saxony to force Augustus II out of the war.

Removes Saxony from the war and isolates Russia.

Charles XII captures Leipzig & Augustus sues for peace

La Feuillade conducts the siege of Turin before the French army is defeated by Eugene.

Peter I led an army of 20,000 men in an attempt to take the Swedish town and fortress of Viborg. Unfortunately, bad roads proved impassable to his heavy siege guns. The troops, who arrived on 12 October, therefore had to abandon the siege after only a few days

Vendome is transferred from Italy to Flanders after the French crisis following Ramillies.

Augustus II accepts Swedish terms, recognises Stanislaw Leszczynski and makes peace with Sweden.

Charles XII forces Augustus II to make peace and renounce the Polish crown.

Charles XII uses the treaty to remove Saxony from the war and isolate Russia as Sweden's main enemy.

Forces Augustus II to renounce the Polish crown.

The treaty confirms Stanislaw Leszczynski as the Swedish-backed king of Poland.

Piper helps manage Swedish diplomacy as Augustus II accepts Charles XII's peace terms.

Rehnskiold's victories help place Sweden in the strong position that forces Augustus II to negotiate.

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Marsin is mortally wounded and captured after the French defeat at Turin.

Vendome wins a sharp victory over an Imperial force near Calcinato in Lombardy.

Carries Marlborough's orders during the Ramillies campaign.

Serves with Marlborough's army at Ramillies.

Marlborough defeats Villeroi at Ramillies and opens the Spanish Netherlands to Allied occupation.

John Dalrymple commands a brigade at Ramillies as Marlborough defeats the French army.

At the Battle of Ramillies, he leads the pursuit of the defeated French

Lumley serves in the cavalry during Marlborough's victory at Ramillies.

Is defeated by Marlborough at Ramillies.

Villeroy is defeated by Marlborough at Ramillies, causing the loss of much of the Spanish Netherlands.

Philippe II of Orleans commands French forces during the failed campaign that ends at Turin.

Philippe II of Orleans commands French forces during the failed siege and battle of Turin.

Uses a feint and cavalry shift to break Villeroi's army.