Also on 5 August, Eugene reached Höchstädt, riding that same night to meet with Marlborough at Schrobenhausen.

" By a series of brilliant marches Marlborough concentrated his forces on Donauwörth and, by noon 11 August, the link-up was complete.

" In the mean time, Marlborough invested the elaborate fortress of Menin which, after a costly siege, capitulated on 22 August.

* August 13 – War of the Spanish Succession – Battle of Blenheim: Allied troops under John Churchill, the Earl of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat the Franco-Bavarian army.

However, at the Battle of Walcourt on 25 August 1689 Marlborough won praise from the Allied commander, Prince Waldeck – " ... despite his youth he displayed greater military capacity than do most generals after a long series of wars ...

However, the main event followed on 13 August when Marlborough – assisted by the Imperial commander, the able Prince Eugene of Savoy – delivered a crushing defeat on Marshal Tallard's and the Elector of Bavaria's army at the Battle of Blenheim.

* 21 August to 26 August 2002: Marlborough Theatre, Brighton, directed by Dave Brinson.

Mary Osborne, Duchess of Leeds ( 1723-3 August 1764 ) ( née Lady Mary Godolphin ), daughter of Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough and Francis Godolphin, 2nd Earl of Godolphin.

James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, 1st Duke of Fitz-James, 1st Duke of Liria and Jérica ( 21 August 1670 – 12 June 1734 ) was an Anglo-French military leader, illegitimate son of King James II of England by Arabella Churchill, sister of the 1st Duke of Marlborough.

Marlborough entered the House of Lords on the early death of his father in 1892 and made his maiden speech in August 1895.

The services of both were so appreciated by the nation that they were able for a time to regard the loss of the queen ’ s favour with indifference, and even in 1708 to procure the expulsion of Harley from office ; but after the Tory reaction which followed the impeachment of Henry Sacheverell, who abused Godolphin under the name of Volpone, the queen made use of the opportunity to get rid of Marlborough by abruptly dismissing Godolphin from office on 7 August 1710.

She was christened at Marlborough House on 6 August 1868 by Archibald Campbell Tait, Bishop of London, and her godparents were: her paternal grandmother Queen Victoria ( for whom The Duchess of Cambridge stood proxy ), The Emperor of Russia ( for whom the Russian ambassador Philipp, Graf de Brunnow, stood proxy ), The Tsarevitch of Russia, The Prince Arthur ( her paternal uncle ), Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine ( her father's brother-in-law ), Prince George of Hesse-Cassel ( her mother's great-uncle ), her mother's sister-in-law The Queen of Greece ( for whom The Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz stood proxy ), The Dowager Queen of Denmark, The Dowager Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the Queen's cousin Princess Francis of Teck and Princess Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau.

He was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the 3rd Foot Guards on 12 May 1702 and fought with the Duke of Marlborough during the War of the Spanish Succession at the Battle of Peer in August 1702 and the Battle of Venlo in September 1702.

From June 13, 1222, she was transferred between Gloucester ( July 31, 1222 to July 20, 1223 ), Marlborough ( August 20 to October 9, 1223 and January 1224 ) and Bristol ( before Michaelmas 1224 ), finally settled at Bristol from June 1224 for a time.

* 28 August 2008 – A transmission tower in the Marlborough Sounds was found buckled after its foundations slipped.

Each August the Town of New Marlborough, Massachusetts hosts an annual crafts and community fair in honor of Elihu Burrit.

Henry FitzJames ( 1st Duke of Albemarle in the Jacobite peerage ) ( 6 August 1673 – 16 December 1702 ), was the illegitimate son of King James II of England and VII of Scotland by Arabella Churchill, sister of the Duke of Marlborough.

* John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough 25 August 1857 – 4 July 1883

* Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough 3 August 1915 – 30 June 1934

Marlborough Churchill ( August 11, 1878 Andover, Massachusetts-July 9, 1942 ) was a U. S. Army officer and a distant relative of Winston Churchill.

Blount was killed on August 31, 1967, when his private airplane hit a tree during an emergency landing, in Marlborough, New Hampshire.

Edward Henry Patey ( 12 August 1915 – 5 September 2005 ) was the Church of England Dean of Liverpool, England from 1964 to 1982. Patey was born in Bristol and educated at Marlborough College, Hertford College, Oxford and Westcott House, Cambridge.

Throughout the summer they followed Marlborough through northern France, and were a part of the attacking army at the Siege of Bouchain in August, before returning to winter quarters.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

He took part in the subsequent campaign, but when the Peace of Passau was signed in August 1552 he separated himself from his allies and began a crusade of plunder in Franconia, which led to the Second Margrave War.

At the August Bristol race, Earnhardt found himself in contention to win his first short track race since Martinsville in 1995.

August Heinrich Hoffmann ( who called himself Hoffmann von Fallersleben after his home town to distinguish himself from others with the same common name of " Hoffmann ") wrote the text in 1841 on vacation on the North Sea island Heligoland, then a possession of the United Kingdom.

Diana was worshipped at a festival on August 13, when King Servius Tullius, himself born a slave, dedicated her temple on the Aventine Hill in the mid-6th century BC.

The usurper L. Domitius Domitianus declared himself Augustus in July or August 297.

In Berlin, Munch involved himself in an international circle of writers, artists and critics, including the Swedish dramatist and leading intellectual August Strindberg, whom he painted in 1892.

Anjou himself did not arrive in England until the end of August, but his ambassadors were already in England.

At this point, he felt his position as Holy Roman Emperor to be untenable, so on 6 August 1806, he abdicated the throne and declared himself to be Francis I, Emperor of Austria.

Venizelos quickly established himself as a powerful political figure, and his allies won the August 1910 elections.

When Ray found himself unable to subscribe as required by the ‘ Bartholomew Act ’ of 1662 he, along with 13 other college fellows, resigned his fellowship on 24 August 1662

After returning to India in August 1912, Nehru enrolled himself as an advocate of the Allahabad High Court and tried to settle down as a barrister.

A more serious incident occurred in August 1945, when Konstantin Volkov, an NKVD agent and vice-consul in Istanbul, requested political asylum in Britain for himself and his wife.

His pontificate lasted only from 18 April to 17 August, after which, in consequence of disturbances within the Church which led to acts of violence, he was banished by the emperor Maxentius, who had been the ruler of Rome since 306, and had at first shown himself friendly to the Christians.

On August 31, 2010, eleven defendants were indicted on RICO charges for allegedly assisting AccessHealthSource, a local health care provider, in obtaining and maintaining lucrative contracts with local and state government entities in the city of El Paso, Texas, “ through bribery of and kickbacks to elected officials or himself and others, extortion under color of authority, fraudulent schemes and artifices, false pretenses, promises and representations and deprivation of the right of citizens to the honest services of their elected local officials ” ( see indictment ).

Hard evidence of Cugley's abbreviation has yet to surface, though in a Usenet posting on August 18, 1990, Cugley posted a reply in which he identified himself as " The originator of the word ' retcon '.

Napoleon himself inspected what had already begun to be called la Pierre de Rosette, the Rosetta Stone, shortly before his return to France in August 1799.

August Neander suggested that it was written by Africanus before he had devoted himself to religious subjects.

* Francis ' Coyote ' Shivers, former husband of Bebe Buell and Pauley Perrette, deemed a Vexatious Litigant on August 27, 2008 by The Superior Court of Los Angeles County during a long ongoing trial between himself and Perrette.

" Pitt chose for himself the office of Lord Privy Seal, which required his elevation to the House of Lords, and in August he became Earl of Chatham and Viscount Pitt.

In August Vice President al Baydh exiled himself voluntarily to Aden, and the country ’ s general security situation deteriorated as political rivals settled scores and tribal elements took advantage of the widespread unrest.

* August 17 – One of English literature's important meetings takes place when Wilfred Owen introduces himself to Siegfried Sassoon at the Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh.

* August 25 – Ahmet Zogu proclaims himself King Zog I of Albania ; he is crowned September 1.

* August 17 – Strathfield Massacre: In Sydney, Australia, taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots 7 people and injures 6 others before turning the gun on himself.