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Victories and Casualties Reported After Mons Siege
Postscript to the Dublin Gazette notes French assembling forces at Quency and Valenciennes with Villars wounded. Boufflers named army commander as Allies siege Mons proceeds from Havre. Many officers and standard bears captured. 20,000 dead reported on the Plain. Marlborough paroles hundreds of officers. Mons garrison urged to surrender. BavarianElector fled, leaving papers behind. News from London confirms wounded French, 20,000 in action, Villars wounded, Boufflers in command, and several officers killed in the combat.
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