Battle of Ramillies their disastrous defeat at Blenheim in 1704, the next year brought the French some respite. The Duke of Marlborough had intended the 1705 campaign – an invasion of France through the Moselle valley – to complete the work of Blenheim and persuade King Louis XIV to make peace but the plan had been thwarted by friend and foe alike. The reluctance of his Dutch allies to see their frontiers denuded of troops for another gamble in Germany had denied Marlborough the initiative but of far greater importance was the Margrave of Baden’s pronouncement that he could not join the Duke
Mall of the Mainland said in 2002 that experts from the shopping center industry did not consider the Mall of the Mainland to be successful. Bivins added that the Mall of the Mainland was "criticized for not being highly visible from" Interstate 45 (Gulf Freeway), which carries traffic between Galveston and Houston. In November 2006 Triyar Cos. LLC, owned by the Yari family, put the mall and several other Greater Houston malls for sale; the company allowed a buyer to either buy an individual property or buy all of them at once. Mall of the Mainland was purchased in March 2007 by Brentwood Group