Memoirs of the Duke of Marlborough: With His Original Correspondence, Collected from the Family Records at Blenheim and Other Authentic Sources, Volume 2Bell & Daldy, 1872 |
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... Holland . Marlborough's Correspondence with the Treasurer . Returns to England . His Anxiety at the Alienation of the Queen , and the Change of Popular Opinion . Resolution of the Whigs to place Lord Orford at the Head of the Admiralty ...
... Holland . Marlborough's Correspondence with the Treasurer . Returns to England . His Anxiety at the Alienation of the Queen , and the Change of Popular Opinion . Resolution of the Whigs to place Lord Orford at the Head of the Admiralty ...
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... Holland , you will not expect one should trouble you very long from this place , from whence one can tell you nothing that is agreeable . The un- easiness betwixt the queen and myself continues as it was ; nor do I see how it can ever ...
... Holland , you will not expect one should trouble you very long from this place , from whence one can tell you nothing that is agreeable . The un- easiness betwixt the queen and myself continues as it was ; nor do I see how it can ever ...
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... Holland , and above all by the court of Vienna , to visit the Swedish monarch , and penetrate his designs . In this dilemma he recurred to the advice of the elector of Hanover , expressing his readiness to undertake the journey at his ...
... Holland , and above all by the court of Vienna , to visit the Swedish monarch , and penetrate his designs . In this dilemma he recurred to the advice of the elector of Hanover , expressing his readiness to undertake the journey at his ...
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... Holland he first communicated his design privately to the pensionary , and afterwards to the deputies from Holland and Friesland , assembled at the Hague , leaving the commu- nication to the other provinces to be made after his return ...
... Holland he first communicated his design privately to the pensionary , and afterwards to the deputies from Holland and Friesland , assembled at the Hague , leaving the commu- nication to the other provinces to be made after his return ...
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... Holland of his mind ; but as we are very sure , I think , of making this campaign , there may be many alterations before winter . " The ambassador of Muscovy has been with me , and made many expressions of the great esteem his master ...
... Holland of his mind ; but as we are very sure , I think , of making this campaign , there may be many alterations before winter . " The ambassador of Muscovy has been with me , and made many expressions of the great esteem his master ...
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