Marlborough (86 page)

77
  
Marlborough to Godolphin 9 September 1705 in Coxe
Marlborough
I p.320.

78
  Marlborough to Heinsius 14 September 1705 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
pp.211–12.

79
  Marlborough to Godolphin 24 September 1705 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I p.496.

80
  Marlborough to the emperor 19 July 1705 in Murray
Dispatches
II pp.178–9.

81
  Marlborough to Louis of Baden 3 September 1705 ibid. p.251.

82
  Marlborough to Lady Oglethorpe 17 September 1705 ibid. p.268.

83
  Marlborough to Godolphin 6 July 1705 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I p.454.

84
  Marlborough to Duchess of Tyrconnell 5 September 1705 in Murray
Dispatches
II p.254.

85
  Marlborough to the queen 6 July 1707 in Coxe
Marlborough
II pp.131–2.

86
  Gregg
Queen Anne
p.203.

87
  Queen Anne to Marlborough 13 November 1705, BL Add Mss 61101 f.89.

88
  Marlborough to Godolphin 8 December 1705 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I p.511.

89
  Burton
Captain-General
pp.94–5.

90
  Marlborough to Heinsius 26 March 1706 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
pp.229–30.

91
  Marlborough to Godolphin 9 May 1706 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I pp.532–3.

92
  De Vault and Pelet VI pp.30–1.

93
  Marlborough to Godolphin 15 May 1706 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I pp.535–6.

94
  Marlborough to Godolphin 9 May 1706 ibid. p.542.

95
  Marlborough to Harley 20 May 1706 in Murray
Dispatches
II p.518.

96
  Coxe
Marlborough
I p.375.

97
  Deane
Journal
p.34.

98
  Chandler
Robert Parker
p.59, Deane
Journal
p.34.

99
  Drake
Amiable Renegade
p.78. It seems likely that not all tents were struck: David Chandler, too good a Marlburian scholar to be brushed aside, suggests that reserves later became ‘entangled amidst the unstruck tents of the French camp behind Ramillies’ (Deane
Journal
p.36 fn 223).

100
  Goslinga
Mémoires
pp.12–13.

101
  De la Colonie
Mémoires
pp.393–4.

102
  Chandler
Robert Parker
p.60.

103
  De la Colonie
Mémoires
p.397.

104
  Mérode-Westerloo p.197.

105
  Letter 24 May 1706 in
English Historical Review
April 1704 p.315. The formal ‘Ramillies Order of Battle’ reproduced as Plate XII in Kane’s
Campaigns
follows representational convention rather than tactical fact by placing all the Allied horse on the flanks of the foot: we know, for instance, that Lumley’s horse were actually behind Orkney’s foot, not on their flank as the map suggests.

106
  De la Colonie
Mémoires
p.395.

107
  Orkney in
English Historical Review
April 1904 p.315.

108
  A. Wykes
The Royal Hampshire Regiment
(London 1968) p.29.

109
  Ibid. p.30.

110
  Blackader
Life and Diary
p.280.

111
  Chandler
Robert Parker
p.61.

112
  De la Colonie
Mémoires
p.399.

113
  Chandler
Robert Parker
pp.60–1.

114
  
Orkney in
English Historical Review
April 1904 p.315.

115
  Marlborough to Godolphin 24 May 1704 and Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 24 May 1704 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I pp.545–6.

116
  HMC Portland IV p.309.

117
  Orkney in
English Historical Review
April 1904 p.315.

118
  Chandler
Robert Parker
p.60.

119
  Wykes
Royal Hampshire Regiment
p.29.

120
  Deane
Journal
p.35.

121
  Chandler
Robert Parker
p.61.

122
  Drake
Amiable Renegade
p.79.

123
  There was a long-running feud between Picardie and the Royal Scots, senior regiment of the British line and ‘Pontius Pilate’s bodyguard’ by nickname. Had
they
been on duty that first Easter, maintained some of the Scotsmen, there would have been no sleeping sentries and no Resurrection.

124
  Orkney in
English Historical Review
April 1904 p.316.

125
  Davies
Life and Adventures
pp.311–12.

126
  Deane
Journal
pp.39, 41.

127
  Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 27 May 1706 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I p.553.

128
  Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 31 May 1706 ibid. pp.555–6.

129
  Marlborough to Godolphin 4 October 1706 ibid. II p.693.

130
  Villeroi to Louis XIV 3 June 1706 in De Vault and Pelet VI p.41.

131
  Marlborough to Harley 12 August 1706 in Murray
Dispatches
III p.78.

132
  Marlborough to Godolphin 1 November 1706 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
II p.727.

133
  Godolphin to Marlborough 8 April 1707 ibid. p.746.

134
  Godolphin to Marlborough 25 September 1706 ibid. p.694.

135
  Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 7 October 1706 ibid. p.695.

CHAPTER 7
:

The Equipoise of Fortune

1
  Gregg
Queen Anne
p.231.

2
  Ibid. pp.232–3.

3
  Sarah Duchess of Marlborough
Life
I p.415, II p.131.

4
  Gregg
Queen Anne
p.275.

5
  Godolphin to Marlborough 5 June 1706 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I p.576. Charles, Lord Mohun, Whig, rake and duellist, was to kill (and be killed by) George, Duke of Hamilton (father of Marlborough’s unacknowledged grandson by Lady Barbara Palmer) in 1712.

6
  Sarah Duchess of Marlborough
Life
II p.140.

7
  Gregg
Queen Anne
p.237.

8
  There is still no readily available account of this battle in English: I rely here on Fortescue
History
I pp.487–9.

9
  Stanhope to Marlborough 3 May 1707 in Murray
Dispatches
III pp.352–3.

10
  Marlborough to Heinsius 17 December 1706 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
pp.286–7.

11
  See Bromley
New Cambridge Modern History
VI p.432 and R.M. Hatton
Charles XII of Sweden
(London 1968) p.232.

12
  
Marlborough to Heinsius 15 May 1707 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
p.310.

13
  Eugène to Marlborough 13 July 1707 in Murray
Dispatches
III p.483.

14
  Marlborough to Godolphin 27 July 1707 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
II pp.850–1.

15
  Chetwynd to Marlborough 14 August 1707 in Churchill
Marlborough
V p.283.

16
  Simon Harris
Sir Cloudesley Shovell: Stuart Admiral
(Staplehurst, Kent 2001) p.325.

17
  Eugène
Memoirs
pp.105–6.

18
  Rodger
Command
pp.171–2.

19
  Marlborough to Godolphin 25 August 1707 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
II p.880.

20
  Godolphin to Marlborough 9 September 1709 ibid. p.908.

21
  Marlborough to Heinsius 17 September 1707 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
p.345.

22
  Marlborough to Godolphin 30 May 1707 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
II pp.785–6.

23
  Cadogan to Raby 16 June 1707, Cadogan Papers.

24
  Marlborough to Heinsius 5 December 1707 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
pp.355–6.

25
  Sir John Cropley to the Earl of Shaftesbury n.d. [19 February 1708] in Geoffrey Holmes and William Speck ‘The Fall of Harley in 1708 Reconsidered’ in
English Historical Review
LXVI 1965 pp.695–6.

26
  Gregg
Queen Anne
p.264.

27
  Marlborough to Heinsius 27 February 1708 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
p.374.

28
  Godolphin to Marlborough 19 April 1708 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
II p.957.

29
  Rodger
Command
p.201.

30
  Marlborough to Godolphin 10 September 1705 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
I p.487.

31
  Marlborough to Godolphin 11 July 1707 ibid. II p.837.

32
  Scouller
Armies of Queen Anne
p.310.

33
  Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 16 August 1706 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
II p.645.

34
  Cadogan to Raby 18 August 1706, BL Add Mss 22196 f.33.

35
  Marlborough to Godolphin in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
II p.645 and fn 2.

36
  Cadogan to Raby 29 December 1707 and 19 January 1708, Cadogan Papers.

37
  Cadogan to Raby 19 January 1708, Cadogan Papers.

38
  Marlborough to Cadogan 17 February 1708 in Murray
Dispatches
III pp.680–1.

39
  Louis XIV to Vendôme 20 and 21 May 1708 in De Vault and Pelet VIII pp.9, 17.

40
  Marlborough to Godolphin 3 May 1708 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
II p.960.

41
  
Ailesbury
II p.602.

42
  Marlborough to Heinsius 22 April 1708 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
p.382. The admirable Major J.N.P. Watson is wrong to suggest that ‘no British writer’ has mentioned this ‘plot’. It is referred to in both
The Cambridge Modern History
and Ivor Burton’s
Captain-General.

43
  A.J. Veenendaal
Het Engels – Nederlands Condominium in de Zuidelike Nederlanden …
(Utrecht 1945) pp.187–8.

44
  
De Vault and Pelet VIII p.11.

45
  Chandler
Marlborough
p.213.

46
  Marlborough to Boyle 5 July 1708 in Murray
Dispatches
IV p.96.

47
  Goslinga
Mémoires
p.45.

48
  Ibid.

49
  ‘Journal of March of the Confederate Army …’ in
London Gazette
8–12 July 1708.

50
  Sergeant John Millner
A Compendious Journal
(London 1733) p.212.

51
  Hare Journal in BL Add Mss 9114.

52
  Goslinga
Mémoires
p.49.

53
  Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 9 July 1708 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
II p.1023.

54
  Goslinga
Mémoires
p.50.

55
  Eugène
Memoirs
p.14.

56
  Churchill
Marlborough
V p.397.

57
  Grumbkow to Frederick William I, 9? July 1708 in K.W. von Schöning (ed.)
Das General-Feldmarschalls Dubsilaw Gneomar von Natzmer Leben und Kriegshaten
(Berlin 1838) p.286.

58
  Marlborough to Murray 8 July 1708 in Murray
Dispatches
IV p.101.

59
  Marlborough to Godolphin 9 July 1708 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
II p.1022.

60
  Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 9 July 1708 ibid. p.1023.

61
  Marlborough to Heinsius 10 July 1708 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
p.390.

62
  Louis XIV to Burgundy 11 July 1708 in De Vault and Pelet VIII pp.30–1.

63
  Vendôme to Saint-Frémont 10 July 1708 ibid. p.33.

64
  Marlborough to Godolphin 9 July 1708 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
II p.1023.

65
  Marlborough to Boyle 9 July 1708 in Murray
Dispatches
IV p.102.

66
  Schöning
Natzmer
p.288.