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Marlborough and later
Marlborough ’ s horse tumbled and the Duke was thrown – " Milord Marlborough was rid over ," wrote Orkney some time later.
The later Dukes of Marlborough are descended from the first duke, but not in the male line.
The Dictum of Kenilworth was later incorporated into the Statute of Marlborough.
Sixty years later during the War of the Spanish Succession the Duke of Marlborough preferred to engage the enemy in pitched battles rather than engage in siege warfare, although he was very proficient in both types of warfare.
Three months later, William restored Marlborough to his offices.
# Barbara ( Benedicta ) Fitzroy ( 1672 – 1737 ) – She was probably the child of John Churchill, later Duke of Marlborough, who was another of Cleveland's many lovers, and was never acknowledged by Charles as his own daughter.
He then worked for a time with Sir John Vanbrugh, helping him build Blenheim Palace for John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, where he took charge from 1705, after Vanbrugh's final break with the demanding Duchess of Marlborough, and Castle Howard for Charles Howard, later the 3rd Earl of Carlisle.
They first met at the Los Angeles First Congregational Church's Cedar Lake Camp at Big Bear, California in 1969, and later dated when she was still a high school student at the Marlborough School in Los Angeles.
The same family later established the hamlet of Lattingtown at Marlborough, Ulster County, New York.
Reis later sold the paintings to the Marlborough Gallery at substantially reduced values, and then split the subsequent profits from sales to customers with Gallery representatives.
She had befriended the young Princess Anne and later, when the princess became Queen, the Duchess of Marlborough, as her majesty's Mistress of the Robes, exerted great influence over the Queen on both personal and political levels.
This noble family descended in the male line from Henry Spencer, claimed to be a descendant of the cadet branch of the ancient House Le Despencer ( died c. 1478 ), male-line ancestor of the Earls of Sunderland, the later Dukes of Marlborough, and the Earls Spencer.
The Spencers later joined the Churchills upon the marriage of Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland and Lady Anne Churchill, daughter of the most celebrated Duke of Marlborough.
The 5th Duke of Marlborough later changed their surname to Spencer-Churchill to emphasize their descent from the first duke.
His Spencer-Churchill descendants include all later Dukes of Marlborough, and their descendants, including the politicians Lord Randolph Churchill and Sir Winston Churchill.
Stopes resigned her lectureship at the University College of London at the end of 1920 to concentrate on the clinic and three months later she and Roe opened the Mothers ' Clinic at 61, Marlborough Road, Holloway, North London on 17 March 1921.
As well as showing at Marlborough Fine Art in London in 2010, the art critic Marco Livingstone organised a retrospective of her work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico, which was later shown at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil.
Their second son, later King George V, was born at Marlborough House in 1865.
Holdenby later in 1709 was bought by the Marlborough family, who in turn sold it to their kinsmen the Clifden Family whose descendants in the female line, the Lowthers, still own the property.
Monmouth was finally defeated by Feversham ( with Lord Churchill, later Duke of Marlborough, his second in command ) on 6 July at the Battle of Sedgemoor.
Five generations later, Isaac Maynard was operating a mill in Marlborough.
They attacked three more settlements: Longmeadow ( near Springfield ), Marlborough, and Simsbury were attacked two weeks later.

Marlborough and told
In the carriage leaving the church, Marlborough told Consuelo he loved another woman, and would never return to America, as he " despised anything that was not British ".

Marlborough and Bishop
' When his successor, the Duke of Ormonde, left London for The Hague to take command of British forces he went, noted Bishop Burnet, with ' the same allowances that had been lately voted criminal in the Duke of Marlborough '.
Princess Maud was christened at Marlborough House by John Jackson, Bishop of London, on 24 December 1869.
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 educated at Bishop Feild College in St. John's, Marlborough College in England, and finished a law degree at the University of Toronto.

Marlborough and
Moreover, this disposition – concave in relation to the Allied army – gave Marlborough the opportunity to form a more compact line, drawn up in a shorter front between the horns ’ of the French crescent ; when the Allied blow came it would be more concentrated and carry more weight.
Douchkine was responsible for painting two figures of the Duke of Marlborough on horseback for The Blenheim Diorama ’, one of which was used, the other, Gottstein being the true collector, was never released.
In addition to the Common Post ’ Marlborough used the Queen's Messengers to carry his communications between his Headquarters and the English Court.
* Wilfrid Prest, Ley, James, first earl of Marlborough ( 1550 – 1629 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 ; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 22 Jan 2009.

Marlborough and French
The Duke had assured the Dutch that if the French were to launch an offensive he would return in good time, but Marlborough calculated that as he marched south, the French commander would be drawn after him.
Marlborough skillfully encouraged this apprehension by constructing bridges across the Rhine at Philippsburg, a ruse that not only encouraged Villeroi to come to Tallard's aid in the defence of Alsace, but one that ensured the French plan to march on Vienna remained paralysed by uncertainty.
In any case, Marlborough had promised to return to the Netherlands if a French attack developed there, transferring his troops down the Rhine on barges at a rate of a day.
That same day Marlborough and Eugene carried out their own reconnaissance of the French position from the church spire at Tapfheim, and moved their combined forces to Münster – five miles ( 8 km ) from the French camp.
With the French flanks busy, Marlborough could cross the Nebel and deliver the fatal blow to the French at their centre.
" Marlborough, spotting this error, now countermanded Cutts ’ intention to launch a third attack, and ordered him simply to contain the enemy within Blenheim ; no more than 5, 000 Allied soldiers were able to pen in twice the number of French infantry and dragoons.
Count Horn's Dutch infantry managed to push the French back from the water's edge, but it was apparent that before Marlborough could launch his main effort against Tallard, Oberglauheim would have to be secured.
Marlborough now requested Eugene to release Count Hendrick Fugger and his Imperial Cuirassier brigade to help repel the French cavalry thrust.
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.
The resilience of the French King, and the efforts of his generals, also added to Marlborough ’ s problems.
" With Marlborough ’ s departure north, the French now transferred troops from the Moselle valley to reinforce Villeroi in Flanders, while Villars marched off to the Rhine.
The Anglo-Dutch forces gained minor compensation for the failed Moselle campaign with the success at Elixheim and the crossing of the Lines of Brabant in the Spanish Netherlands ( Huy was also retaken on 11 July ), but a chance to bring the French to a decisive engagement had eluded Marlborough.
Marlborough, however, noticed several important weaknesses in the French dispositions.
Therefore, unbeknown to the French who remained oblivious to the Allies ’ real strength and intentions on the opposite side of the Petite Gheete, Marlborough was throwing his full weight against Ramillies and the open plain to the south.
" Fortunately Marlborough ’ s newly appointed aide-de-camp, Richard Molesworth, galloped to the rescue, mounted the Duke on his horse and made good their escape, before Murray ’ s disciplined ranks threw back the pursuing French troopers.
By the time Marlborough had closed down the Ramillies campaign he had denied the French most of the Spanish Netherlands west of the Meuse and north of the Sambre – it was an unsurpassed operational triumph for the English Duke.
David G. Chandler ’ s Marlborough as Military Commander and A Guide to the Battlefields of Europe are consistent with regards to French casualty figures i. e., 12, 000 dead and wounded plus some 7, 000 taken prisoner.
Eugene enhanced his standing during the War of the Spanish Succession where his partnership with the Duke of Marlborough secured victories against the French on the fields of Blenheim ( 1704 ), Oudenarde ( 1708 ), and Malplaquet ( 1709 ); he gained further success in the war as Imperial commander in northern Italy, most notably at the Battle of Turin ( 1706 ).
* 1706 – Battle of Ramillies: John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal Villeroi.
The Duke of Marlborough won a series of brilliant victories over the French, England's first major battlefield successes on the Continent since the Hundred Years War.

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