A fact from Siege of Ghent (1708) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 September 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that after the Siege of Ghent, the victorious commander, the Duke of Marlborough, claimed the garrison was so numerous that it took their army "from ten in the morning till seven at night" to evacuate the town?
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