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Marlborough and moved
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.
Marlborough quickly moved forward two brigades under the command of General Wilkes and Brigadier Rowe to secure the narrow strip of land between the Danube and the wooded Fuchsberg hill, at the Schwenningen defile.
Marlborough — ignoring the wishes of the Dutch, who preferred to keep their troops in the Low Countries — led the English and Dutch forces southward to Germany ; Eugene, meanwhile, moved northward from Italy with the Austrian army.
Shortly after the plot was discovered, Eleanor was moved away from coast and transferred between Gloucester, Marlborough and Bristol Castle.
The family moved their London residence from St James's Palace to Marlborough House.
" Later that year, she moved out of Buckingham Palace to Marlborough House, but she retained possession of Sandringham.
Alger began attending the Chelsea Grammar School in 1842, but by December 1844 his father's financial troubles had increased considerably and, in search of a better salary, he moved his family to Marlborough, Massachusetts, an agricultural town 25 miles west of Boston.
The county seat was then moved from Charles Town, on the banks of the Patuxent, to Upper Marlborough.
To this end, Marlborough moved his English troops to the Moselle ( a plan approved of by The Hague ), but once there he planned to slip the Dutch leash and march south to link up with Austrian forces in southern Germany.
Marlborough – with renewed self-assurance – moved decisively to engage them.
He was initially buried in the vault at the east end of Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey, but following instructions left by Sarah, who died in 1744, Marlborough was moved to be by her side lying in the vault beneath the chapel at Blenheim.
Tournai fell after an unusually long siege of almost 70 days, by which time it was early September, and rather than run the risk of disease spreading in his army in the poorly draining land around Ypres, Marlborough instead moved eastwards towards the lesser fortress of Mons, hoping by taking it to outflank the French defensive lines in the west.
Richard Blackmore's Instructions to Vander Beck was virtually alone among English poems in attempting to celebrate the " victory " of Marlborough at Malplaquet, while it moved the English Tory party to begin agitating for a withdrawal from the alliance as soon as they formed a government the next year.
After leaving Marlborough in 1958, Chatwin reluctantly moved to London to work as a porter in the Works of Art department at the auction house Sotheby's.
He was appointed an assistant master at Marlborough College in 1858, and moved to Harrow in 1859.
An early " stone frigate " was the engineering training college HMS Marlborough, moved ashore to Portsmouth in 1880.
In 1717, the Pusey family moved to East Marlborough Township, where he was involved in politics.
* HRH Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, then Catherine Middleton, attended the school for a term before being moved to Marlborough College
In 1819, this man, by now the Duke of Marlborough, became bankrupt and moved to his family home at Blenheim Palace at Woodstock in Oxfordshire.
Æthelric was deposed by the Council of Windsor on 24 May 1070 and imprisoned at Marlborough, being replaced by Stigand ( not the same as the archbishop ), who later moved the seat of the diocese to Chichester.

Marlborough and headquarters
In 1975 the new headquarters of Met Éireann, the Irish Meteorological Office, opened just off Glasnevin Hill, on the former site of Marlborough House.
Sudbury was considered to become the part of the site for the headquarters of the United Nations, along with parts of Lincoln, Concord and Marlborough.
The headquarters of the Secretary-General, as with the Secretariat generally, is Marlborough House, a former royal residence in London, which was placed at the disposal of the Secretariat by Queen Elizabeth II.
With his headquarters in nearby Oxford, King Charles had to deal with Marlborough.
The allied British, German and Dutch forces under the command of the Duke of Marlborough established their headquarters at Lillers until forced out by the Marquis de Goesbriand, the head of the French troops.
FMR's corporate headquarters are located in Boston, Massachusetts, with the largest U. S. operations located in Marlborough, Massachusetts ; Merrimack, New Hampshire ; Smithfield, Rhode Island ; Westlake, Texas ; Covington, Kentucky ; Durham, North Carolina ; Albuquerque, New Mexico ; Cincinnati, Ohio ; Salt Lake City, Utah ; Jacksonville, Florida ;
* Lowry sought to influence a hike in the lease for Marlborough House ( Telecom Eireann headquarters ) following a request from Mr Dunne.
The flag of the Commonwealth of Nations is flown at Marlborough House, London, the headquarters of the Commonwealth Secretariat, throughout the year, and for a limited period at other venues where Commonwealth meetings, events, or visits are taking place ( for example, Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings ).

Marlborough and left
Marlborough took control of the left arm of the Allied forces including the attacks on Blenheim and Oberglauheim, whilst Eugene commanded the right including the attacks on Lutzingen.
The Allied commanders agreed that Marlborough would command 36, 000 troops and attack Tallard's force of 33, 000 on the left ( including capturing the village of Blenheim ), whilst Eugene, commanding 16, 000 men would attack the Elector and Marsin's combined forces of 23, 000 troops on the right wing ; if this attack was pressed hard the Elector and Marsin would have no troops to send to aid Tallard on their right.
On their left, on the broad plain between Taviers and Ramillies – and where Marlborough thought the decisive encounter must take place – Overkirk drew the 69 squadrons of the Dutch and Danish horse, supported by 19 battalions of Dutch infantry and two artillery pieces.
The final Allied reinforcements for the cavalry contest to the south were at last in position ; Marlborough ’ s superiority on the left could no longer be denied, and his fast-moving plan took hold of the battlefield.
Twenty years after he had received a similar windfall from the Marlborough legacy, Sir William Pynsent, a Somerset baronet to whom he was personally quite unknown, left him his entire estate, worth about three thousand a year, in testimony of approval of his political career.
Lady Marlborough was subsequently removed from the royal household by the Lord Chamberlain, and Anne angrily left her royal lodgings and took up residence at Syon House, the home of the Duke of Somerset.
It is uncertain who may have originally composed the melody, but it appears to be well known first as a French folk song called " Marlbrough s ' en va-t-en guerre " (" Marlborough has left for the war ") in the 18th century about John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough.
When William left for Ireland in June 1690 Marlborough became commander of all troops and militia in England, and was appointed a member of the Council of Nine to advise Mary on military matters in the King's absence ; but she made scant effort to disguise her distaste at his appointment – " I can neither trust or esteem him ," she wrote to William.
In August Marlborough himself left for Ireland engaged upon his first independent command – a land / sea operation upon southern ports of Cork and Kinsale.
When William left for Holland in July Marlborough was one of the Lords Justices left running the country in his absence ; but striving to reconcile his close Tory connections with that of the dutiful royal servant was difficult, leading Marlborough to complain – " The King's coldness to me still continues.
' 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 '.
The money she inherited from the Marlborough trust left her as one of the richest women in Europe.
Villars was able to regroup his forces, but Marlborough and Eugène attacked again, assisted by the advance of a detachment under General Withers advancing on the French left flank, forcing Villars to divert forces from his centre to confront them.
After he left school, he worked in a puppet factory in Marlborough, until he became a full-time archaeologist in 1971.
Knowing that his duty was to attack, Mathews hoisted the signal to engage the enemy aboard his flagship, and at one o ' clock left the line to attack the Spanish rear, followed by Captain James Cornewall aboard HMS Marlborough.
While the right was under pressure, Marlborough made a brilliant command decision: he placed 18 newly arrived Hessian and Hanoverian battalions in the left flank, while replacing 20 of Prussian General Carl von Lottum's battalions, moving them to Eugène's support.
Beresford left the Marlborough in Spring 1863, and was appointed to the Defence in the summer of 1863.
Most of Orkney's battalions, including the Queen's, redeployed to support Marlborough on the left.

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