The Military Life of John Duke of Marlborough

Archibald Alison

W. Blackwood, 1848 - 594 من الصفحات

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CHAPTER I	1

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Family	15

Vast ability by which the government of France was directed	17

The rashness and imprudence which cost him his throne	21

The knowledge of this treaty of partition determines	24

Narrow escape of Marlborough from being made prisoner	27

Fatal separation of Eugene with his troops from Marlborough 329	30

Commencement of the battle	272

Marlborough after a desperate conflict carries the wood of Taisnière	274

Bloody repulse of the Prince of Orange on the left	275

Heroic but ineffectual efforts of the Prince of Orange to restore the combat	276

Marlborough hastens to the spot and restores the battle	277

A vigorous attack of Villars on the right weakens his centre which Marlborough prepares to attack	278

Decisive attack by Lord Orkney on the centre	279

Admirable efforts of Boufflers to regain the day	280

Plan of the Allies to counteract	33

of the age	38

England has lost all title to complain of any violation of	46

Marlborough arrests Vendôme and Berwick when trying	52

Capture of all the troops in Blenheim and conclusion of	53

Splendid and disinterested conduct of Marlborough in refus	54

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Landrecies is ineffectually besieged by Eugene who sustains	60

Which arose from a plan for the restoration of the Stuarts	66

Marshal Tallard joins the Elector of Bavaria who determines	74

Disposition of the Allies for the attack	84

Grand and decisive charge by Marlborough in the centre	90

the war	105

Bold plan of Marlborough and Eugene for the invasion	116

Position occupied by Villeroi	122

Which mars all the subsequent operations of the campaign	127

Marlborough is obliged to forego his advantages	133

And at Berlin and Hanover	139

Marlboroughs manoeuvres before the battle and plan	145

It is at length carried by assault	161

ing the government of the Netherlands	166

Jealousies of the Dutch and continued disinterestedness of Marlborough	168

Opening of a separate secret negotiation between the Dutch and French	169

Marlboroughs address obtains a renewal of the alliance	170

His return to England and splendid reception there	171

Jealousy against him arises among both the Whigs and Tories but he prevails at Court	173

CHAPTER IV	175

Appearance of Charles XII of Sweden in Germany	176

His character	177

Great military abilities	178

His faults rashness and cruelty	179

Efforts of Louis XIV to win him to his side	180

Measures of Marlborough to counteract his efforts	181

Visit of Marlborough to Charles at Dresden	183

His address and success with that monarch	184

Singular skill with which he avoided rousing religious differences	185

His satisfactory arrangement of the difficulties regarding Poland	186

Renewed jealousies and procrastinations of the Allied Powers	187

The Dutch deputies thwart Marlborough near Nivelles ib 14 Which causes the campaign to be wasted in useless manœuvres	188

Disasters of the Allies in Spain and on the Rhine	189

Marlborough in consequence strongly urges an invasion in the south of France	191

Invasion of Provence by Eugene	193

Marlborough closes the campaign and returns to England	194

Causes of the reaction against Marlborough and the war at this time	195

Change in the system of government by the Revolution	196

Vast increase of loans taxes and corruption	197

Decline of Marlboroughs influence at court and rise of Mrs Masham	198

Her great influence	200

Violence of the party contests in England	201

Marlboroughs measures defeat a threatened invasion of Scotland by the Pretender	202

Vigorous preparations made by Louis XIV for the cam paign in the Low Countries	203

Preparations and forces of the Allies in Flanders ib 30 Vendômes movements to aid a revolt in Antwerp	205

Continued procrastination of the German powers	206

Vendômes able plan to aid a rising in Ghent and Bruges	207

He makes himself master of Ghent and Bruges ib 34 Marlboroughs activity secures Oudenarde against a coupde main	208

Extreme vexation and serious illness of Marlborough	209

Marlboroughs cross march on Vendômes communications	210

Vendôme moves off followed by the Allies	212

Description of the field of battle	213

Preliminary movements on both sides and capture of the French advanced guard	214

Forces on both sides and commencement of the battle	215

Brilliant success of the French right	217

Operations of Eugene on the right	218

And of Marlborough on the left	219

Decisive movement by Marlborough against the French left	220

Vigour with which it was executed by Overkirk who entirely turns them	221

Results of the battle	223

Marlboroughs advice to march to Paris is overruled and it is resolved to lay siege to Lille	225

Preparations of the Allies for the siege	226

Commencement of the siege and position of the covering army	228

raise the siege	229

Progress of the siege and Eugene wounded which throws the direction of the siege on Marlborough	230

Efforts on both sides to obtain supplies of ammunition	231

Capitulation of the town of Lille	232

Siege of the citadel of Lille and diversion of Vendôme against Brussels	234

Marlborough recovers Ghent	235

And Bruges Concludes the campaign and again refuses the government of the Netherlands	236

Glorious results of the campaign and great ability of Marl borough	238

CHAPTER V	240

Extravagant ideas of the cabinets of Berlin and Turin	241

His cold reception from the court of England and mission to the Hague	242

Great concessions offered by Louis	243

Vain endeavours of Louis to bribe Marlborough	245

Ultimatum of the Allies which is rejected by France	246

Noble efforts of Louis to save France	247

Forces on both sides at the opening of the campaign	249

Marlboroughs efforts to obtain an augmentation of force in the Low Countries	250

Which at length are partially successful The forces at his disposal	251

Marlboroughs measures to deceive Villars	252

And lays siege to Tournay	253

Description of Tournay	254

Siege and capture of that town	255

Siege of the citadel and its desperate chances	256

Alarms of the troops at the subterraneous warfare	257

Its real horrors	258

But the citadel is at length taken	259

Vigorous movements of Marlborough towards Mons	260

He turns Villarss lines and gets between them and France	262

Concentration of the Allied and Villarss army	263

Composition and strength of the French army	264

Description of the field of battle	266

Noble force on both sides	267

Preparatory movements on both sides and interference of the Dutch deputies	268

Villars fortifies his position	269

Plan of attack by the Allied generals	270

Feelings of the soldiers on both sides	271

His able and orderly retreat	281

Results of the battle to the Allies	282

Loss of the French and humanity of Marlborough	283

Capture of Mons and conclusion of the campaign	285

Continued decline of Marlboroughs influence at court	286

Unjust criticisms and censures on the campaign	287

Injudicious request of Marlborough to be made captain general for life	288

His flattering reception from the Houses of Parliament	289

Increasing jealousies of him at court	290

His remonstrances with the Queen	291

He determines to resign if Mrs Masham is not removed	292

But is persuaded to yield and is seemingly reconciled to the Queen	293

Battle of Pultowa and overthrow of Charles XII	294

Character of Peter the Great of Russia	295

His errors and delusions regarding him	296

Real character of his changes	297

CHAPTER VI	299

Rigorous demands of the Allies	300

Plan of the campaign agreed on between Eugene and Marl borough	301

Passage of the lines of the Scarpe	302

Description of Douay	303

Its investment and siege which Villars tries to raise	304

Both armies expect another battle	305

Villars retires without fighting	306

Fall of Douay	307

The Allies are unable to reach Arras	308

Great skill with which Villars averted the invasion of France on this occasion Fall of Bethune	309

Increasing animosity to Marlborough in England He in tends to besiege Calais	310

Siege and capture of St Venant	312

And of Aire	313

Increase of Marlboroughs difficulties at home	314

General alarm at the augmentation of the public burdens ib 17 Argument of Bolingbroke on the subject	316

Real causes of the evils complained of	317

Envy of him among his own party	318

Paltry difficulties thrown in the way of the completion of Blenheim	319

Attempts to gain over Marlborough to the Tories	320

Ungrateful reception of Marlborough by the Ministers and country	321

Dismissal of the Duchess of Marlborough	323

Marlborough with great reluctance withholds his intended resignation	324

Prosperous condition of the army in the Low Countries	325

Great lines constructed by Villars	326

Plan of the campaign	328

Fall of Bouchain	338

Marlboroughs noble speech against it in the House of Peers	344

Louis rises in his demands at Utrecht which turns into	351

Eloquent speech of Lord Halifax in the House of Peers	357

His great address and suavity of manner	391

His magnanimity and humanity	397

His character as drawn by Adam Smith and Bolingbroke	398

The five great generals of modern times	399

Leading characteristics of each	400

Early life of Eugene	401

Character of his warfare and his first great victory over the Turks	402

His campaigns in Italy and Germany	403

And with Marlborough in Flanders	404

His astonishing successes over the Turks	405

Narrow escape from ruin and wonderful victory at Belgrade	406

His character as a general and parallel to Napoleon	407

Daring and skill with which he extricated himself from dangers	408

Early life of Frederick the Great	409

His accession to the throne and vigorous application to its duties	410

His aggresssion on and conquest of Silesia and first victory at Mollwitz	411

His glorious successes over the Austrians	412

Who are at length obliged to make peace	413

His decided and indomitable character already appears	414

His great services to his kingdom during the next ten years of peace	415

Coalition of Austria Russia France Saxony and Sweden against Prussia	416

Frederick invades Saxony and conquers that country ib 42 He defeats the Austrians at Prague and is defeated at Kelle	418

Desperate situation of the Prussian monarchy	419

The Kings marvellous victories at Rosbach and Leuthen ib 45 Disasters sustained by his troops in other quarters and victory of Zorndorf	421

Victory of Frederick over Landon at Lignetz	424

Dreadful battle and victory of the Prussians at Torgau ib 51 Desperate state of Prussia at this time	425

Operations in the camp of Bunzelwitz	426

The death of the Empress of Russia restores his affairs	427

Wonderful result of the struggle	428

His character as a general	429

Comparison of Frederick and Napoleon	430

Of Marlborough and Wellington	432

contend	434

Their respective characteristics	436

Marlborough made more use of cavalry than Wellington and why?	438

Marlborough was more successful than Wellington in sieges and why?	440

Great and remarkable land triumphs of England over France	442

What have been the causes of this?	444

Magnificent ideas of each as shown in their public works	446

Opposite interests and causes for which the parties contended	447

Magnitude of the danger which threatened Europe if France had proved successful	448

Results which might have followed the triumph of France ib 5 Opposite sides on political questions on which the parties were ranged similar to what ...	449

Yet fundamentally the Allies and France were in both cases ranged on the same sides	450

Important difference in the parties by whom the war was opposed in the time of Marlborough and Napoleon	452

State of the opposite parties in Great Britain since the Great Rebellion	453

The union of parties had brought about the Revolution	454

Dangers which flowed from the Revolution	456

The funding system is introduced by William III ib 12 General terrors it excited in Great Britain	457

Bolingbrokes account of its dangers	459

General corruption which was induced in the country	460

Bolingbrokes account of the general indignation at this demoralising system	462

Strong principles of freedom and loyalty in the English character	464

Swift and the Tory writers in the press	473

Causes which render the Alliance of Spain of such vital	479

Extraordinary coincidence in the crisis of the two contests	491

Which produced the reaction against him that checked	494

But no excuse can be found for our violation of the Treaty	497

44	501

Treaty of Utrecht	502

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العنوان	The Military Life of John Duke of Marlborough
المؤلف	Archibald Alison
الناشر	W. Blackwood, 1848
أصلي من	National Library of the Netherlands
الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي	4 تموز (يوليو) 2012
عدد الصفحات	594 من الصفحات

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