The ne plus ultra of the past decade is E.L. James's "1003 Shades" trilogy.
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The mother of all crises has met the ne plus ultra of presidential ineptitude.
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The House's tax reform bill is the ne plus ultra of this kind of legislation.
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Our world is crazy, it's getting crazier, and Hollywood is the ne plus ultra of crazy.
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I do think that performance art is the ne plus ultra of art, simply because the body is the medium par excellence.
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To drummers in the '70s and '24s, Peart was an Eddie Van Halen figure, someone whose pyrotechnic chops seemed to be the ne plus ultra.
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But really, it's about spending time in virtual reality hanging out with that ne plus ultra of Japanese erotic archetypes, the girl in the sailor uniform.
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The medley of songs associated with Ms. Thompson, the ne plus ultra exemplar of a style that might be called zany chic, were a particular treat.
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Barneys, which at its peak operated like an idiosyncratic boutique on a grand scale, found it difficult to remain the ne plus ultra of sly style.
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In a way, it qualifies as the ne plus ultra in Italian profanity, which is why Bottura would like to have it printed on a T-shirt.
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At more than 600 pages, divided into two volumes, this is the ne plus ultra of coffee-table tomes; just handling it verges on a sensory experience.
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"Ne Plus Ultra" is a Latin phrase meaning "the highest point achievable" or "nothing more beyond," often found along the edges of old maps as a warning to travelers.
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In "Ne Plus Ultra" (2010), the artist cast 200-plus bones of a deer in resin, assembled the skeleton using anatomical books and photographs as reference, and rebuilt the artificial musculature.
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It didn't bother me a bit that the clue for A VOTRE SANTE has been the only clue for this entry, sporadically since 24, as it's simply perfect, ne plus ultra.
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Paul Verlaine featured him in his anthology of " poètes maudits ," and J. K. Huysmans's novelistic manual of decadence, "Against the Grain," glorified him as the ne plus ultra of esoteric refinement.
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These are safe spaces for conservatives who think little has changed since William F. Buckley scorned the "ne plus ultra relativism, idiot nihilism" and "hoax of academic freedom" at Yale in the 1950s.
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Fine porcelain china — whether from China or Europe — used to be the ne plus ultra for American hosts and hostesses, but now rough-hewed materials and unexpected places of origin are also prized.
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" And Federer is the ne plus ultra for William Skidelsky in his memoir, "Federer and Me: A Story of Obsession," rallying to the same theme that Wilson does: "Roger Federer made tennis beautiful again.
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These musicales, which encompassed Bach, Ellington, Stephen Sondheim and Thelonious Monk and drew a cosmopolitan audience, represented the ne plus ultra of an all-embracing musical vision that connected and celebrated diverse musical cultures.
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He depicts Timothy Geithner, the treasury secretary during President Barack Obama's first, hairy term in office, as a technocrat ne plus ultra, a public servant committed to upholding the financial system, which he ultimately did do.
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Directed with senses-saturating virtuosity by Alex Timbers, and starring a ravishing Karen Olivo as a dying Parisian vedette, this ne plus ultra of a much maligned form, the jukebox musical, found an unlikely elegance in excess.
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On Tmall, I found what felt to me like the ne plus ultra of bootlegs: a shoe made in the style and colors of the Triple S, but with "KANYE YEEZY" stitched where "BALENCIAGA" was meant to be.
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Supreme, which opened in 1994, has become the ne plus ultra of street wear brands, famously selling out its new collections — or "drops" — within hours and drawing huge lines at its flagship store in New York's SoHo neighborhood.
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He has served only as the ne plus ultra as to how FARA remains essential to our democracy—and how it applies to all who come, regardless of ties to a president, or to a fellow conspirator-in-chief.
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So let's leave it at this: you know that Raiders of the Lost Ark—the ne plus ultra of movie-serial homages that didn't win Best Picture—is a better film than Chariots of Fire (okay, Pauline Kael didn't know, but we know).
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Here is the shining pink lox, that fatty, salty, cured-belly lox that, with cream cheese on a bagel, has given its name to the greatest sandwich ever produced by humankind — this is a fine thing anywhere, but at Russ, it is the ne plus ultra.
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The Fyre Festival, which imploded publicly and spectacularly in April 2017, was meant to be the ne plus ultra of music festivals — an opportunity for moderate-level influencers to get up close and personal with peak-level influencers, and the beginning of a boondoggle empire for the entrepreneur Billy McFarland.
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As pants silhouettes have become increasingly starved — a trend that's soon to be reversed, thankfully — and fabrics increasingly athletic, shoes have two options: like the Buscemi, become the raison d'être and the conversation piece, or alternatively, play nice and fit in by extending that silhouette, the reason blah Adidas running sneakers are the current ne plus ultra of fashion footwear.
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The best items here, the most pricey items here, were the ne plus ultra of this idea: a phenomenal sweater jacket with cashmere arms and suede body, with snakeskin and intrecciato leather detailing ($5300), or a lush green zip-neck sweater with full snakeskin shoulder panels ($2,300) that fit me — and I should say, suited me — better than almost every item of clothing I own.
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It was a garden of earthly delights, the ne plus ultra of libidinosity where pleasures of the flesh were readily available.
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By 1861 Magnum Bonum Quarry employed over 60 people producing stone blocks for buildings and stone flagstones for railway station platforms. A hamlet of workers homes developed with a church and public house. Other quarries were Sans Pareil and Ne Plus Ultra. The nearest registered common land is Magnum Bonum, about half a mile south of the village.
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He was one of New York's best known composers and compiled a glee and chorus book titled Ne Plus Ultra. Dresller played both piano and mouth organ, and also accompanied Ole Bull. He also led the Hanover Conservatory in Germany. Dressler was the musical editor for the publishing house William Hall & Son & J. L. Peters for a time.
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The colonel was forced to make savings, excluding the maintenance of a band. Wellington founded the principle commissioning system of Ne Plus Ultra (Not a penny more), later the name given to his Tory supporters in the Commons.The Monthly Chronicle 1840, p. 291 The youthful troopers dispatched, they travelled with light camping equipment, and acquired a regimental mascot, a Newfoundland dog.
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Despite being well received, sales still lagged far behind the Winchester. Remington went back to the drawing board and designed the Model 870; this shotgun matched the durability of the Model 12 at a significantly lower cost. Despite the overwhelming success of the 870, many shotgun connoisseurs consider the Model 31 to be the ne plus ultra of pump shotguns with its "ball-bearing" slide action.Simpson, Lane.
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He has said, "pen and ink for me is the ne plus ultra of drawing." In his Frank stories, Woodring employed a style that combined 1920s–30s Fleischer Studios-like character designs with an Eastern architectural and design flavor. He also makes heavy use of a distinctive controlled wavy line that adds contour and texture to the backgrounds, which has become his trademark. Woodring also works in charcoal and paint (mostly in watercolor).
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The Siege of Bouchain (9 August – 12 September 1711), following the Passage of the Lines of Ne Plus Ultra (5 August 1711), was a siege of the War of the Spanish Succession, and the last major victory of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Marlborough broke through the French defensive lines and took Bouchain after a siege of 34 days. Its capture left Cambrai the only French- held fortress between the allied army and Paris.
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Generally each springtime, outgoing student editors choose the next batch of editors for the following year. Editorial meetings take place in a basement room in Morse Hall. According to a report in Town & Country magazine, there is no censorship of The Phillipian.RICHARD MCGILL MURPHY, July 7, 2015, Town and Country Magazine, How John Palfrey Is Bringing America's Most Elite Boarding School Into the Digital Age: For centuries Andover was considered the ne plus ultra of elitist, insular boarding schools.
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According to the Monmouth Beacon, the ball was bowled Knee-high ne plus ultra which implied the ball was bowled under arm. In 1870 Agincourt Cricket Club was the main Monmouth cricket club in Monmouth which was formed by a breakaway group of the Monmouth Cricket Club. Charles Henry Crompton-Roberts established Monmouth's first cricket ground in Drybridge Park in 1874. In 1874 they beat the Combined Universities XI. In 1875, he staged the first of his Annual Cricket Weeks.
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Logic dictates that there are no literal nonfictional pantomaths, but the word pantomath seems to have been used to imply a polymath in a superlative sense, a ne plus ultra ("nothing more beyond") as it were, one who satisfies requirements even stricter than those to be applied to the polymath. In theory, a pantomath is not to be confused with a polymath in its less strict sense, much less with the related but very different terms philomath and know-it-all.
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In 1709 he was promoted to Lieutenant General. He fought at Malplaquet, and was wounded in the neck at the siege of Mons, but quickly recovered.Chandler, Marlborough as Military Commander; p 267 At the end of 1709 Cadogan was appointed as a Lieutenant of the Tower of London. During the breaking of the lines of Ne Plus Ultra, he again commanded the allied advance guard, and established a bridgehead across the lines prior to Marlborough's arrival with the main army.
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Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Whittemore attended Phillips Academy and received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1941. As a sophomore at Yale, he and his roommate James Angleton started a literary magazine called Furioso which became one of the most famous "little magazines" of its day and published many notable poets including Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams. "It was the ne plus ultra of little magazines" according to Victor Navasky. The magazine was published intermittently until 1953.
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In 1808 Elliott wrote to Southey asking for advice on getting published. Southey's welcome reply began a correspondence over the years that reinforced his determination to make a name for himself as a poet. They only met once, but exchanged letters until 1824, and Elliott declared it was Southey who had taught him the art of poetry. Other early poems were Second Nuptials and Night, or the Legend of Wharncliffe, which was described by the Monthly Review as the "Ne plus ultra of German horror and bombast".
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Since there has been a one-to-one association between Heracles and Melqart since Herodotus, the "Pillars of Melqart" in the temple near Gades/Gádeira (modern Cádiz) have sometimes been considered to be the true Pillars of Hercules. Plato placed the fictional island of Atlantis beyond the "Pillars of Hercules". Renaissance tradition says the pillars bore the warning Ne plus ultra (also Non plus ultra, "nothing further beyond"), serving as a warning to sailors and navigators to go no further. According to some Roman sources,Seneca, Hercules Furens 235ff.
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On April 6, the track "There's No Secrets This Year" was released as a single on various online music stores. The bonus track "Currency of Love" was released exclusively on iTunes with pre-orders in the U.S. and Canada, but was issued as a regular album track in other countries. The song "Ne Plus Ultra" was released as a B-Side on the single Panic Switch. Two tracks off of the album, "Panic Switch" and "It's Nice to Know You Work Alone," have been released as downloadable content for Guitar Hero: World Tour as part of a track pack released on April 9.
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The perception of matter is pronounced to be the ne plus ultra of thought, and Reid, for presuming to analyse it, is declared to be a representationist in fact, although he professed to be an intuitionist. A distinction is made between the perception of matter and our apprehension of the perception of matter. Psychology vainly tries to analyse the former. Metaphysics shows the latter alone to be analysable, and separates the subjective element, our apprehension, from the objective element, the perception of matter; not matter per se, but the perception of matter is the existence independent of the individuals thought.
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Microsoft also sold a BASIC compiler, BASCOM, compatible with GW-BASIC, for programs needing more speed. According to Mark Jones Lorenzo, given the scope of the language, "GW-BASIC is arguably the ne plus ultra of Microsoft's family of line-numbered BASICs stretching back to the Altair--and perhaps even of line-numbered BASIC in general." With the release of MS-DOS 5.0, GW-BASIC's place was taken by QBasic, the interpreter part of the separately available QuickBASIC compiler. On May 21, 2020, Microsoft released the 8088 assembler source code for GW-BASIC 1.0 on GitHub under the MIT License.
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Nolte in Knowlton, (1993) pp. 4–5 Nolte took the view that the principal problem of German history was this “negative myth” of the Third Reich, which cast the Nazi era as the ne plus ultra of evil.Nolte in Knowlton, (1993) pp. 3–4 Nolte contends that the great decisive event of the 20th century was the Russian Revolution of 1917, which plunged all of Europe into a long-simmering civil war that lasted until 1945. To Nolte, fascism, communism's twin, arose as a desperate response by the threatened middle classes of Europe to what Nolte has often called the “Bolshevik peril”.
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The original "Purple Cow", from 1895 > I never saw a purple cow I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, > anyhow, I'd rather see than be one! "The Purple Cow" (the full title was "The Purple Cow: Reflections on a Mythic Beast Who's Quite Remarkable, at Least"), an illustrated four-line poem that appeared in the first number of The Lark, was to remain the ne plus ultra of nonsense verse that Burgess would spend his life unsuccessfully attempting to surpass. At first, the magazine was edited and written primarily by Burgess, who took great delight in creating pseudonyms for himself.
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Imperial Bösendorfer in the Music Hall of the University of Bamberg The Bösendorfer Model 290 Imperial , or Imperial Bösendorfer (also colloquially known as the 290) is the largest model and flagship piano manufactured by Bösendorfer, at around long, wide, and weighing . It has an eight-octave range from C0 to C8. For 90 years it was the only concert grand piano in the world with 97 keys, until it was joined in 1990 by the instruments of Stuart & Sons of Australia. Music critic Melinda Bargreen has described the Imperial as the ne plus ultra of pianos, while pianist Garrick Ohlsson dubbed it the "Rolls- Royce of pianos".
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Also in 1983, Microsoft began bundling GW-BASIC with DOS. Functionally identical to IBM BASICA, its BASIC interpreter was a fully self-contained executable and did not need the Cassette BASIC ROM found in the original IBM PC. According to Mark Jones Lorenzo, given the scope of the language, "GW-BASIC is arguably the ne plus ultra of Microsoft's family of line-numbered BASICs stretching back to the Altair--and perhaps even of line- numbered BASIC in general." With the release of MS-DOS 5.0, GW-BASIC's place was taken by QBasic. MacBASIC featured a fully interactive development environment for the original Macintosh computer and was developed by Donn Denman, Marianne Hsiung, Larry Kenyon, and Bryan Stearns.
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Notwithstanding all this turmoil – and his declining health – Marlborough returned to The Hague in late February to prepare for what was to be his last campaign, and one of his greatest. Once again Marlborough and Villars formed against each other in line of battle, this time along the Avesnes-le-Comte–Arras sector of the lines of Ne Plus Ultra. Expecting another onslaught on the scale of Malplaquet, the allied generals surmised that their commander, distressed from domestic turmoil, was leading them to an appalling slaughter. By an exercise of brilliant psychological deception, and a secretive night march covering nearly 40 miles in 18 hours, the Allies penetrated the allegedly impregnable lines without losing a single man; Marlborough was now in position to besiege the fortress of Bouchain.
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In that year he was called to command the main army opposing Prince Eugène of Savoy and Marlborough on the northern frontier. During the famine of the winter he shared the soldiers' miserable rations. When the campaign opened the old Marshal Boufflers volunteered to serve under him, and after the terrible battle of Malplaquet, in which he was gravely wounded (by a musketball to the knee), he was able to tell the king: "If it please God to give your majesty's enemies another such victory, they are ruined." Two more campaigns passed without a battle and with scarcely any advance on the part of the invaders, but at last Marlborough manoeuvred Villars out of the famous Ne plus ultra lines, and the power of the defence seemed to be broken.
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Driscoll, Mark Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895–1945 Durham: Duke University Press, 2010 pages 269 The purpose of Manchukuo was to provide the industrial basis for the "national defense state" with Driscoll noting "Kishi's planned economy was geared towards production goals and profit taking, not competition with other Japanese firms; profit come primarily from rationalizing labor costs as much as possible. The ne plus ultra of wage rationalization would be withholding pay altogether-that is unremunerated forced labor."Driscoll, Mark Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895–1945 Durham: Duke University Press, 2010 page 274. In 1935, he became one of the top officials involved in the industrial development of Manchukuo, where he was later accused of exploiting Chinese forced labor.
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In the 1920s and 1930s, Liseter Hall Farm was considered the ne plus ultra of Mid-Atlantic horse facilities. In addition to the indoor galloping track, the first in the United States, the farm featured a large barn for race horses; a -wide by -long indoor riding ring, used by trainers for schooling young horses; the half-mile training track and its adjacent combination viewing stand/water tower; a breeding shed; a hunter barn; a show horse barn; a loading barn with ramps, for transporting horses to competition; and a grassy, half-mile chute that connected the training track with the race horse, hunter and show horse barns. Similar facilities were built at the Bellevue Hall estate, including a hunting barn, two indoor training tracks, and an outdoor track. Du Pont and Jean had four children together, two girls and two boys.
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1993) edited by John Walker. Almost 70 years after Lombard's death, the Sunday Times described red lipstick as the "ne plus ultra [not further beyond] of make up ... We respect red lipstick as a badge of loveliness and youth (Georgia May), bold style (Florence Welch), sexual confidence (Scarlett Johansson) and old-school glamour (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley) – and, above all, we appreciate that it doesn't work for everyone": Shane Watson in Style, 4 December 2011. Coincidentally, sales of men's undershirts fell dramatically in the United States when Lombard's future husband, Clark Gable, was revealed not to be wearing one in a famous motel bedroom scene with Claudette Colbert in the film It Happened One Night (1934). According to Gable, "the idea was looking half- naked and scaring the brat into her own bed on the other side of the blanket [hanging from a clothesline to separate twin beds]".
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The Chief Black Eunuch was sometimes considered second only to the Grand Vizier (head of the imperial government, but often working in his own palace or even away, e.g., on military campaign) in the confidence of the Sultan, to whom he had and arranged access (including his bedchamber, the ne plus ultra for every harem lady), also being his confidential messenger. As commander of an imperial army corps, the halberdiers ('baltacı'), he even held the supreme military dignity of three-horsetail pasha (general). Meanwhile, the Chief White Eunuch (Kapı Ağası), was in charge of 300 to 900 white eunuchs as head of the 'Inner Service' (the palace bureaucracy, controlling all messages, petitions, and State documents addressed to the Sultan), head of the Palace School, gatekeeper-in-chief, head of the infirmary, and master of ceremonies of the Seraglio, and was originally the only one allowed to speak to the Sultan in private.
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Mansbridge 1991 p. 227 The house was sold in 1834 and the gallery interior moved to East Cowes Castle. The finest of the dozen country houses that Nash designed as picturesque castles include the relatively small Luscombe Castle Devon (1800–04),Mansbridge 1991 p. 95 Ravensworth Castle (Tyne and Wear) begun 1807 only finally completed in 1846, was one of the largest houses by Nash,Mansbridge 1991 p. 142 Caerhays Castle in Cornwall (1808–10),Mansbridge 1991 p. 149 Shanbally Castle, County Tipperary (1818–1819) was the last of these castles to be built.Mansbridge 1991 p. 218 These buildings all represented Nash's continuing development of an asymmetrical and picturesque architectural style, that had begun during his years in Wales, at both Castle House Aberystwyth and his alterations to Hafod Uchtryd.Mansbridge 1991 p. 133 This process would be extended by Nash in planning groups of buildings, the first example being Blaise Hamlet (1810–1811). There a group of nine asymmetrical cottages was laid out around a village green. Nikolaus Pevsner described the hamlet as "the ne plus ultra of the Picturesque movement".
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Throughout the early summer of 1711 Marlborough's army, having taken the important fortress of Douai the previous year, manoeuvred indecisively in northern France, blocked by the French Lines of Ne Plus Ultra – a massive series of fieldworks stretching from the Channel coast to the Ardennes at Namur. The allied army had been weakened by the withdrawal of Prince Eugene's army to cover the upper Rhine, as the deposed Elector of Bavaria attempted to take advantage of the disruption caused by the death of the Emperor Joseph. On 6 July, Marlborough captured the small fortress of Arleux, just to the north of the Lines, west of Bouchain, both to deny its use to the French as a sally-port, and to secure the water supply to Douai, which could be cut off by damming the canal that supplied the town. The Duke was then wrong-footed by Villars as the French army crossed the Lines on 22/23 July and retook Arleux, with the allied army too far to the west to intervene in time, and the defences were levelled before the French retreated back across the Lines.
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