Claude Louis Hector de Villars, French general Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Plate 12 from The Great

Plate 12 from The Great War: A Neutral's Indictment by Louis Raemaekers

The posture in presenting his firelock at Capt Ball in Lady Wood

Drawing-room in St James's Palace

one of the episodes of the popular science fiction series that was lost by the BBC Location: Nant Ffrancon Pass 15th September 1967

Claude Louis Hector de Villars, French general Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Plate 12 from The GreatClaude Louis Hector de Villars, French general, (c19th century). One of the greatest generals of Louis XIV, Marshal Villars (1653 1734) was one of the principal French commanders of the War of the Spanish Succession, he was defeated by Marlborough at the Battle of Malplaquet (1709), although the Allied victory was pyrrhic one. His finest hour came at Denain in 1712 when he decisively defeated a Dutch and Austrian army commanded by Eugene of Savoy.