Marlborough (84 page)

46
  Cadogan to Marlborough 26 June 1710, Cadogan Papers.

47
  Cardonnel to Ellis 30 July 1703, BL Add Mss 28918 f.194.

48
  Cardonnel to Stepney 25 May 1706, BL Add Mss 7063 f.199.

49
  
London Gazette
8–11 March 1711.

50
  
London Gazette
27–29 November 1711.

51
  
London Gazette
12–15 January 1711.

52
  
London Gazette
9–12 October 1704.

53
  Marlborough to Lady Marlborough May 1702, BL Add Mss 61427 f.134.

54
  Marlborough to Lady Marlborough 10 July 1703 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I p.221.

55
  Lady Marlborough to Marlborough, undated (1701–02), BL Add Mss 61427 f.134.

56
  Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 16 August 1710 in
Life of the Duchess of Marlborough
I p.363.

57
  Marlborough to Godolphin 16 August 1702 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I p.104.

58
  Marlborough to Godolphin 2 July 1702 ibid. p.80.

59
  Marlborough to Heinsius 20 July 1702 in B. van ’T Hoff
The
Correspondence 1701–1711 of John Churchill and Anthonie Heinsius
(The Hague 1951) p.19.

60
  David Chandler and Christopher L. Scott (eds) ‘The Journal of John Wilson, an “Old Flanderkin Sergeant” of the 15th Regiment …’ in David Chandler et al. (eds)
Military Miscellany II
(Stroud 2005) p.35.

61
  Ibid.

62
  Ibid. p.36.

63
  Chandler
Robert Parker
p.20.

64
  Marlborough to Godolphin 10 July 1702 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I p.90.

65
  16 August Old Style, for Marlborough and Godolphin were then corresponding by the English calendar. In Continental New Style the missed opportunity was on 26 August 1702. During the Blenheim campaign Marlborough took to dating his letters ‘according to the custom of the country’.

66
  Marlborough to Heinsius 4 September 1702 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
p.28.

67
  Chandler
Robert Parker
p.22.

68
  HMC Coke III p.16.

69
  Marlborough to Godolphin 14 September 1702 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I p.115.

70
  Chandler
Robert Parker
p.25.

71
  Marlborough to Nottingham 23 October 1702 in Murray
Dispatches
I p.47.

72
  Chandler
Robert Parker
p.25.

73
  De Vault and Pelet II p.613,

74
  Berwick
Memoirs
I p.181.

75
  Chandler
Robert Parker
p.25.

76
  
Ailesbury
II p.542.

77
  Murray
Dispatches
V p.580.

78
  Queen Anne to Lady Marlborough 22 October 1702 in Brown
Letters
p.97.

79
  Sarah Duchess of Marlborough
Conduct
p.304.

80
  Marlborough to Lady Marlborough 4 November 1702 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I p.142.

81
  Marlborough to Lady Marlborough 6 November 1702 ibid. p.143.

82
  Gregg
Queen Anne
p.165.

83
  Coxe
Marlborough
I p.106.

84
  Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 18 February 1703 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I p.150.

85
  Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 18 February 1703 ibid. p.151.

86
  Cardonnel to Heinsius 23 February 1703 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
p.58.

87
  
Ailesbury
II p.558.

88
  Marlborough to Godolphin 9 April 1703 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I p.165.

89
  Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 9 March 1703 ibid. p.253.

90
  Queen Anne to Duchess of Marlborough 18 and 19 February 1703 in Gregg
Queen Anne
pp.168–9.

91
  Ibid. p.169.

92
  Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 9 March 1703 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I p.200.

93
  Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 17 May 1703 ibid. p.186.

94
  I owe this insight to Ophelia Field in
The Favourite.

95
  Queen Anne to Duchess of Marlborough 22 May 1703 in Brown
Letters
p.125.

96
  Chandler
Mérode-Westerloo
p.147.

97
  
Marlborough to Heinsius 5 January 1703 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
p.46.

98
  Marlborough to Heinsius 21 April 1703 ibid. p.61.

99
  Marlborough to Godolphin 9 April 1703 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I p.165.

100
  Marlborough to Heinsius 27 April 1703 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
p.63.

101
  Overkirk (1640–1708) came from an illegitimate line of the Orange-Nassau family, and had saved William of Orange’s life at the siege of Mons in 1678. Promoted general in 1701, he replaced Athlone as the Estates-General’s field marshal when the latter died in February 1703.

102
  Chandler
Robert Parker
p.26.

103
  Marlborough to Opdam 19 May 1703 in Murray
Dispatches
I p.102.

104
  Marlborough to Coehoorn 23 May 1703 ibid. p.105.

105
  Marlborough to Godolphin 31 May 1703 NS in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I p.188.

106
  J.W. Sypesteyn (ed.)
Het leven van Menno baron van Coehoorn
(Leeuwarden 1860) p.209.

107
  Marlborough to Heinsius 17 June 1703 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
p.75.

108
  Marlborough to Heinsius 22 June 1703 ibid. p.76.

109
  Marlborough to Opdam 28 June 1703 in Murray
Dispatches
I p.125.

110
  Marlborough to Heinsius 2 July 1703 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
p.78.

111
  Marlborough to Godolphin 2 July 1703 NS in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I p.209.

112
  Hop to the Estates-General 1 July 1703 in Murray
Dispatches
I p.129.

113
  Chandler
Mérode-Westerloo
p.152.

114
  Marlborough to Godolphin 5 July 1703 NS in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I p.211.

115
  Marlborough to Heinsius 21 July 1703 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
p.83.

116
  Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 4 July 1703 NS in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I p.212.

117
  Marlborough to Godolphin 30 July 1703 NS ibid. p.223.

118
  Notes on the Council of War 24 August 1703 in Murray
Dispatches
I pp.165–6.

119
  Marlborough to Godolphin 27 August 1703 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I p.235.

120
  Marlborough to Godolphin 6 September 1703 ibid. p.239.

121
  Marlborough to Heinsius 26 August 1703 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
p.89.

122
  Marlborough to Heinsius 11 October 1703 ibid. p.95.

123
  Marlborough to Berwick 23 October 1703 in Murray
Dispatches
I p.203.

CHAPTER 5
: High Germany

1
  Marlborough to Heinsius 8 June 1704 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
p.109.

2
  Eugène
Memoirs
p.34.

3
  Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 18 January 1704 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I pp.260–1.

4
  Churchill
Marlborough
III p.283.

5
  Marlborough to Godolphin 8 February 1704 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I p.269.

6
  
Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 4 February 1704 ibid. p.268.

7
  Marlborough to Hedges 12 January 1704 in Murray
Dispatches
I p.234.

8
  Cadogan to Raby 17 February 1704, Cadogan Papers.

9
  Marlborough to Heinsius 7 and 14 March 2004 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
pp.101–2.

10
  Eugène
Memoirs
p.82.

11
  Marlborough to Godolphin 14 April 1704 OS in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I p.277.

12
  Marlborough to Godolphin 18 April 1704 ibid. p.279.

13
  Cadogan to Raby 5 May 1705 NS in BL Add Mss 22196 f.17r.

14
  Marlborough to Heinsius from Kuhlseggen, just west of Bonn, 21 May 1704 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
p.105.

15
  Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough, two undated letters of April 1704 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I p.273.

16
  Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 11 April 1704 OS? ibid. p.276.

17
  Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 24 April 1704 ibid. pp.286–7.

18
  J.M. Brereton
History of the 4th/7th Dragoon Guards
(Catterick 1982) p.57.

19
  Marlborough to St John in Murray
Dispatches
I pp.260–1.

20
  Kane
Campaigns
p.45. The regiment of the Electoral Prince of Hesse was, as Marlborough made clear to the Estates-General on 27 May (Murray
Dispatches
I p.282), in the king of Prussia’s service, though paid for by English gold.

21
  Cadogan to Raby 27 August 1703, Cadogan Papers.

22
  Cardonnel to Ellis 14 May 1704, BL Add Mss 28918 f.271.

23
  De Vault and Pelet IV pp.18–23.

24
  Ibid. p.420.

25
  Cardonnel to Robethon 19 and 26 June 1704, BL Stowe Mss 222 ff.243, 248.

26
  J.F. Dutems
Histoire du Jean Churchill …
(3 vols, Paris 1808) II p.293.

27
  Churchill
Marlborough
III pp.337–8.

28
  Marlborough to the Elector of Mainz 26 May 1704 in Murray
Dispatches
I p.282.

29
  Chandler
Robert Parker
p.31.

30
  Wilson
Journal
p.40.

31
  Marlborough to Godolphin 24 May/4 June 1704 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I pp.310–12.

32
  
The Life and Diary of Lieut. Col. J. Blackader of the Cameronian Regiment …
(Edinburgh 1724) p.197. Blackader spelt his name thus, and I follow his good example.

33
  
The Memoirs of Captain George Carleton and the Life and Adventures of Mrs Christian Davies, commonly called Mother Ross …
(London 1840) p.288.

34
  Chandler
Journal of Marlborough’s Campaigns … by John Marshall Deane
p.5.

35
  Marlborough to Charles Churchill 22 June 1704 in Murray
Dispatches
I p.321.

36
  Derek McKay
Prince Eugène of Savoy
(London 1977) p.206.

37
  
Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research
No. 36 1958 Vol IV p.162.

38
  Nicholas Henderson
Prince Eugène of Savoy
(London 1964) p.71.

39
  
Ibid. p.xii.

40
  Churchill
Marlborough
III p.354.

41
  Sandby Journal in BL Add Mss 9114.

42
  Marlborough to the Prince of Hesse 10 June 1704 in Murray
Dispatches
I p.303.

43
  Marlborough to Hedges 15 June 1704 ibid. p.309.

44
  Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 29 June 1704 NS in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I p.326.

45
  HMC Coke III p.38.

46
  Anne-Marie Cocula (ed.)
Mémoires de Monsieur de la Colonie, Maréchal de Camp des Armées de l’Electeur de Bavière
(Paris 1992) p.258.

47
  Marlborough to Godolphin 3 July 1704 NS in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I p.327.

48
  De la Colonie
Mémoires
p.264.

49
  Wilson
Journal
p.43.

50
  De la Colonie
Mémoires
p.264.