Marlborough : England's fragile genius / Richard Holmes
- Bib ID:
- 4464591
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- Author:
- Holmes, Richard, 1946-
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- London : HarperPress, 2008
- xxvii, 564 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780007225712 (hardback)
- 0007225717 (hardback)
- Summary:
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"John Churchill is, by any reasonable analysis, Britain's greatest ever soldier. He mastered strategy, tactics and logistics. His big four battles - Blenheim, Ramilies, Oudenarde and Malplaquet - were events at the very centre of the European stage. He captured Lille, France's second city, overran Bavaria and beat a succession of French marshals so badly that those he defeated were thanked by Louis XIV for losing so well. A coalition manager long before the phrase was invented, he commanded a huge polyglot army with centrifugal political tendencies and bent it to his will by sheer force of personality."
"Richard Holme's exhilarating biography paints the portrait of the man, warts and all, who was as tenacious and brilliant on the battlefield as he was treacherous, greedy and passionate in his personal life, and who, in the end, became saviour of the Holy Roman Empire."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Machine derived contents note: INTRODUCTION: Portrait of an Age 1
- Marlborough and the Weight of History 1
- Portraits in a Gallery I 1
- Century of Revolution 14
- Influence and Interest 2 2
- Whig and Tory 34
- 1. Young Cavalier 39
- Faithful but Unfortunate 39
- The King Comes Home in Peace Again 44
- The Army of Charles II 48
- Court and Garrison 55
- To the Tuck of Drum 58
- My Lady Castlemaine 61
- The Dutch War 65
- The Imminent Deadly Breach 70
- The Handsome Englishman 77
- 2. From Court to Coup 83
- Love and Colonel Churchill 83
- Politics, Foreign and Domestic 89
- Domestic Bliss, Public Prosperity 100oo
- Monmouth's Rebellion 110
- Uneasy Lies the Head 128
- 3. The Protestant Wind 145
- Settling the Crown 156
- Little Victory 159
- Court and Country 162
- Irish Interlude 16(6
- Fall and Rise 174
- 4. A Full Gale of Favour 195
- Gentlemen of the Staff 210
- First Campaign 224
- Emrnpty Elevation 232
- The 1703 Campaign 239
- 5. Iigh Germany 249
- Forging a Strategy 249
- The Scarlet Caterpillar 258
- Being Strongly Entrenched: The Schellenberg 269
- The Harrowing of Bavaria 277
- A Glorious Victory: Blenheim 281
- 6. The Lines of Brabant 298
- Ripples of Victory 298
- Hark Now the Drums Beat up Again 305
- Happy and Glorious: Ramillies 329
- 7. The Equipoise of Fortune 353
- Favourites, Bishops and the Union 353
- A Sterile Campaign 356
- Politics and Plans 362
- The Campaign of 708 369
- The Devil Must have Carried Them: Oudenarde 379
- In the Galley 392
- 8. Decline, Fall and Resurrection 407
- Failed Peace, Thwarted Ambition 407
- A Very Murdering Battle: Malplaquet 416
- Failed Peace and Falling Government 434
- Last Campaigns 450
- Dismissed the Service 459
- Exile and Return 463.
- Notes:
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- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 517-524) and index.
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