Marlborough: Britain’s Greatest General. Richard Holmes

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      MARLBOROUGH

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       England’s Fragile Genius

      RICHARD HOLMES

       DEDICATION

      I am so entirely yours, that if I might have all the world given me, I could not be happy but in your love.

       The Hague, 20 April 1703/Ropley, 20 February 2008

       EPIGRAPH

      Our horsemen had now the better of the fight; but soon we beheld fresh bodies of horsemen, hastening to the relief of their half-defeated squadrons. Marlborough was at the head of this reserve of cavalry … I can still see him as, undaunted and serene, he rode forward amid the cheers of his troops, shouting ‘Corporal John’, the name they had given their hero; he was surrounded by his staff, evidently receiving his commands. I fell on his men with my whole regiment; he narrowly escaped being made prisoner – oh! That heaven was so unpropitious to France – but he was extricated, and my troopers were compelled to retreat.

       COLONEL GERALD O’CONNOR, commanding anIrish regiment in French service, Ramillies, 1706

      This is a world that is subject to frequent revolutions

       SARAH DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH

      CONTENTS

       COVER

       TITLE PAGE

       EPIGRAPH

       Domestic Bliss, Public Prosperity

       3. The Protestant Wind

       Settling the Crown

       Little Victory

       Court and Country

       Irish Interlude

       Fall and Rise

       4. A Full Gale of Favour

       Gentlemen of the Staff

       First Campaign

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