In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.

* His collection of short stories, " Worlds Enough & Time ", takes its name from the first line of the poem To His Coy Mistress by British poet Andrew Marvell: ' Had we but world enough, and time ,'.

Had Anne died before June 1714, Sophia would have been the oldest person to ascend to the British throne.

Had 1. 2 % of the votes been different, the electoral system in British Columbia would now be BC-STV.

Cilla registered eleven Top Ten singles on the British charts between 1964 and 1971, including two No. 1's (" Anyone Who Had a Heart " and " You're My World ").

George Martin's and Parlophone's attempts to pull off the same trick that they had succeeded at with " Anyone Who Had a Heart ", taking a strong song released by an American artist hitherto unknown to British audiences and giving it to Cilla, did not succeed in the same spectacular fashion in February 1965 as it had twelve months earlier.

Had he known, he could have brought his own battlecruisers to sea faster and consolidated his fleet, possibly preventing the German losses and instead inflicting some on the departing British ships.

Had consent been given and the marriage been legal, the Prince of Wales would have been automatically removed from the succession to the British throne under the provisions of the Bill of Rights and the Act of Settlement 1701.

Had the British followed the retreating Americans they might have come across their baggage and supply wagons, which had been left where the Americans had camped on the west of the Salisbury road prior to the battle.

Had Khama been unable to convince the British authorities of the need to protect the Bamangwato, it is very likely that much of what is today Botswana would have been absorbed into Rhodesia and South Africa.

Had he remained in office, he would have cultivated the British alliance and cooperated with Britain in Egypt ; and when the succeeding Freycinet government shrank from that enterprise only to see it undertaken with signal success by Britain alone, Gambetta's foresight was quickly justified.

* A. Linklater, Why Spencer Perceval Had To Die: the Assassination of a British Prime Minister ( Bloomsbury, 2012 )

Had they pursued, he suggested, the British might have taken additional prizes and destroyed the French naval presence in the Caribbean.

Had the Luftwaffe realised just how essential the radar stations were to British air defences, it is likely that they would have expended great effort to destroy them.

Had the bombardment continued it is likely the defending guns would have ceased firing for lack of shells, the minesweepers could have worked effectively and the British ships could have moved in to their objectives.

Had the German ships not altered course to the west at 01: 41 to follow the line of the Greenland icepack, the British would have intercepted them much earlier than they did.

Had Riyad had his way, Urabi and his associates would have been executed forthwith ; so when the British insisted that clemency should be extended to the leaders of the revolt, Riyad refused to remain in office as interior minister, resigning in December 1882.

Had Robinson not won the VC for this action, he would almost certainly have received the award for leading the night-time action which destroyed a stranded British submarine while under intensive fire from Turkish shore artillery.

Had he held Lowndes Hill, Stansbury could have made the British approach a costly one ( although this would involve fighting with the East Branch at his back, which would not improve his men's morale and might be disastrous in the case of a hasty retreat ).

Later albums, such as Madam Butterfly and Supercharged, strayed from the disco format and were less successful on the Pop chart ( although they continued to have Top 10 R & B hits such as " Never Had a Love Like This Before " and the popular socio-political " Bad Times " written by British singer-songwriter Gerard McMahon ).

Had the Constitution Act, 1982 been enacted as most preceding amendments to Canada's constitution had been, as a statute of the British parliament, it would, like any other British statute, have been an English-only document.

Had Prithvi Narayan Shah not established the Kingdom of Nepal, it is likely that the smaller and weaker nation states would have come under the control of the British Empire, whose influence was increasing in India at the time.

Had he been able to escape this long siege of invalidism, I'm convinced, Papa would have left a sizable estate.

Had the Allied commander realised that Luxembourg had split his army in two, he might have overwhelmed the isolated French left before the right came into position, but he did not.

Had Kollowrat moved forward himself, protecting Klenau's left flank, the Austrian VI Korps might have envisaged the continuation of its action, but, as things were, Kollowrat had not yet moved from his position between Süssenbrunn and Breintlee.

Kendricks, who had quit the Temptations just before Williams left, produced and co-wrote Williams ' first single, " Feel Like Givin ' Up ", which was to have been issued on Motown's Gordy imprint with " Once You Had a Heart " as its b-side.

His last novel, Dá mBíodh Ruball ar an Éan (" If the Bird Had a Tail "), a study of the alienation of a Gaeltacht man in Dublin, was left unfinished, a fact suggested by the title.

Had a concerted attack been carried out, with Vendôme attacking with his main body to envelop the Allied right, while Burgundy attacked with the left ( before Overkirk and the rest of Argyll's troops arrived ), the French army could have easily won.

Had the 110, 000 telephone customers been shut off versus being sold to Pioneer Telephone, those customers would have more than likely left Adelphia cable and high speed internet services.

Had they left Fallom on Solaria, the child would almost certainly have been killed, because it had not as yet developed its transducer lobes, therefore not counting as a Solarian and being expendable.

Had the fifth murder been committed in the final event it would have been the little finger of the left hand.

Had it been left unchecked, she could have caused a massive outbreak of trichinosis.

Had Flammarion known of the engraving in 1872, it seems unlikely that he would have left it out of that year's edition, which was already heavily illustrated.

Had the signal tower operator properly left his signal at danger, the conductor monitored his train's progress rather than entrusting it to a subordinate, and had the crew inspected the train register at Shops Junction as required, the accident would not have happened.

The book Twenty Years and Still Kickin, which marked Garfield's twentieth year, included parodies of how Lyman left such as, " Had lunch with Jimmy Hoffa and then ...".

Had Landrieu won, he would have been the first white mayor of New Orleans since his father left office in 1978.

" I was called shortly after 8 p. m. June 21, for deadhead equipment west, engine 8485, for 10. 15 p. m., and left Kalamazoo, Michigan at 10. 35 p. m. Had been up since 5 a. m., June 21, dead heading from my home in Jackson on Train No. 41, and had had little or no sleep during the day.

As she left she greeted Ned and then, looking at the very good-looking young man, said " Had the trip wires out at Euston again have we darling?

Had the Giants knelt on the subsequent play, there still would have been one second left on the game clock once the play clock ran down, requiring a fourth-down play to be run ( the play clock at the time ran for 30 seconds ; it now runs for 40 ).

Had the deal gone through, Washington, D. C., would have been left without a classical-music station as a result of the earlier 2005 switch of WETA to a public-radio news and talk format.

The allegation prompted a strong statement in November 1994 from the private secretary of Pik Botha, then South African Foreign Minister, stating that " Had he known of the bomb, no force on earth would have stopped him from seeing to it that flight 103, with its deadly cargo, would not have left the airport.

Had it been right-handed, clockwise circularly polarized light approaching the circular polarizer from the left, its horizontal component would have also been retarded, however the resulting linearly polarized light would have been polarized along the absorbing axis of the linear polarizer and it would not have passed.