Memoirs of the Duke of Marlborough with His Original Correspondence: Collected from the Family Records at Blenheim, and Other Authentic Sources, Volume 2G. Bell, 1907 |
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... officers of the royal household , and attended by a splendid train of coaches filled with the foreign ministers and nobility , and with the principal officers , who had shared the honours which he acquired in the field of Ramilies . At ...
... officers of the royal household , and attended by a splendid train of coaches filled with the foreign ministers and nobility , and with the principal officers , who had shared the honours which he acquired in the field of Ramilies . At ...
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... officers , who had fallen in some popular brawl , while re- cruiting at Breslau . The effects arising from these contentions threatened the most serious consequences . The troops of all the sovereigns and states , who were near the ...
... officers , who had fallen in some popular brawl , while re- cruiting at Breslau . The effects arising from these contentions threatened the most serious consequences . The troops of all the sovereigns and states , who were near the ...
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... officer , whom he furnished with a series of instructions , suggesting such arguments as were likely to weigh with a sovereign of such a romantic and imperious temper . He even solicited his mediation , which he declared the allies ...
... officer , whom he furnished with a series of instructions , suggesting such arguments as were likely to weigh with a sovereign of such a romantic and imperious temper . He even solicited his mediation , which he declared the allies ...
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... officers and troops , and to pay several millions as in indemnification . Should he refuse such conditions , the king is re- olved to exterminate the Muscovites , and make their country a desert . God grant that he may persist in this ...
... officers and troops , and to pay several millions as in indemnification . Should he refuse such conditions , the king is re- olved to exterminate the Muscovites , and make their country a desert . God grant that he may persist in this ...
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... officers in the suite of the duke . Since this note was written , I have discovered an account of this dis- course which was transmitted by Besenval , the French envoy at Leipsic , to Louis XIV . , and which strikingly corroborates the ...
... officers in the suite of the duke . Since this note was written , I have discovered an account of this dis- course which was transmitted by Besenval , the French envoy at Leipsic , to Louis XIV . , and which strikingly corroborates the ...
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