Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Tournay (War of the Spanish Succession).

The town was besieged by the British, under the Duke of Marlborough, July 8, 1709, and was defended by a French garrison under M. de Surville. After 56 days of open trenches, the garrison surrendered, having suffered a loss of 3,000 men.