Kings and Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth Century EnglandVintage Books, 1942 - 298 sivua Life in eighteenth century England in the time of the French Revolution. |
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... Marlborough was a supremely great general . From the start he was vic- torious against the French in Flanders ; then , when Louis's armies were about to invade Austria and besiege Vienna , Marlborough made a feint of moving against ...
... Marlborough was a supremely great general . From the start he was vic- torious against the French in Flanders ; then , when Louis's armies were about to invade Austria and besiege Vienna , Marlborough made a feint of moving against ...
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... Marlborough was never more than a lukewarm adherent of the Whigs , and never wholly trusted by them , actually his ... Marlborough's generalship was absolute while it lasted ; and where he did not rule , he passed on the sceptre to the ...
... Marlborough was never more than a lukewarm adherent of the Whigs , and never wholly trusted by them , actually his ... Marlborough's generalship was absolute while it lasted ; and where he did not rule , he passed on the sceptre to the ...
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... Marlborough , in spite of many champions , has not come off well . Ever since Swift called him " proud as Hell , and covetous as the Prince of it , " Marlborough's image has been ruthlessly defaced by a long line of critics . The ...
... Marlborough , in spite of many champions , has not come off well . Ever since Swift called him " proud as Hell , and covetous as the Prince of it , " Marlborough's image has been ruthlessly defaced by a long line of critics . The ...
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