Historedia
Episode 1 of 1

Death at Philippsburg

When
12 June 1734
Where
Siege of Philippsburg
Part of
Alleged Death of Duke of Berwick at Philippsburg

The Duke of Berwick was killed by a cannonball during the 1734 siege.

On 12 June 1734, James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, died at the Siege of Philippsburg. He was decapitated by a cannonball. He had been chosen to lead the Army of the Rhine in 1733.

Sources

  1. James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-01
  2. Philippsburg Wikipedia, revision of 2025-06-22

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.