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Showing posts with label Duke of Marlborough. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Duke of Marlborough. Show all posts
Sunday, November 25, 2018

Flashback, November 1688: William of Orange Invades England

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Though invited by Protestant commanders and politicians to assume the British crown, Dutch-born William of Orange was taking no chanc...
Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Quote of the Day (Robert Southey, on a Costly British ‘Famous Victory’)

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“ ‘They say it was a shocking sight      After the field was won,      For many thousand bodies here      Lay rotting in the sun;...
Thursday, August 13, 2009

Quote of the Day (Edward Creasy, on the Duke of Marlborough, The “First Churchill”)

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“There are few successful commanders on whom Fame has shone so unwillingly as upon John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, Prince of the Holy R...
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