Marlborough by Holmes, Richard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Epigraph Contents The Churchills Introduction: Portrait of an Age

Marlborough and the Weight of History Portraits in a Gallery Century of Revolution Influence and Interest Whig and Tory

1. Young Cavalier

Faithful but Unfortunate The King Comes Home in Peace Again The Army of Charles II Court and Garrison To the Tuck of Drum My Lady Castlemaine The Dutch War The Imminent Deadly Breach The Handsome Englishman

2. From Court to Coup

Love and Colonel Churchill Politics, Foreign and Domestic Domestic Bliss, Public Prosperity Monmouth’s Rebellion Uneasy Lies the Head

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 Empty Elevation The 1703 Campaign

5. High Germany

Forging a Strategy The Scarlet Caterpillar Being Strongly Entrenched: The Schellenberg The Harrowing of Bavaria A Glorious Victory: Blenheim

6. The Lines of Brabant

Ripples of Victory Hark Now the Drums Beat up Again Happy and Glorious: Ramillies

7. The Equipoise of Fortune

Favourites, Bishops and the Union A Sterile Campaign Politics and Plans The Campaign of 1708 The Devil Must have Carried Them: Oudenarde In the Galley

8. Decline, Fall and Resurrection

Failed Peace, Thwarted Ambition A Very Murdering Battle: Malplaquet Failed Peace and Falling Government Last Campaigns Dismissed the Service Exile and Return

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