Authors: Richard Holmes
allows decline of militias, 132
conspiracies against, 135–6, 141–4
birth of son, 137
seeks repeal of Test Acts, 137
touches for King’s Evil, 138
and William’s invasion of England, 142, 145, 147, 149–50, 155
nosebleeds, 149–50
Marlborough maintains relations with, 150, 165–6
abandons plans to resist William, 151
flees to France, 155–6
campaign in Ireland, 159, 164, 166–8
letter of submission from Anne, 166
and death of daughter Mary, 186
and Jacobite plots, 187
court at St Germain en Laye, 193
supports assassination of William, 193
death, 194
James Francis Edward Stuart, Prince of Wales (‘the Old Pretender’):
portrait, 12
birth, 137, 141
and succession to James II, 141
and Jacobite rebellion (1715), 153, 471
claims to throne, 166, 191
Louis XIV recognises as James’s heir, 194
Marlborough demands expulsion from France, 201
attempted landing in Britain (1708), 215, 364, 369
on campaign in Low Countries, 226
with Burgundy at battle of Oudenarde, 392
warns French against offering battle for Lille, 395–6
Catholicism, 468
and succession to Anne, 468
Jeffreys, George, Baron, 126
Jenkins’ Ear, War of (1739), 458
Jennings, Frances (Sarah Marlborough’s mother), 83–4, 86
Jennings, Frances (Sarah’s sister)
see
Tyrconnell, Countess of
Jennings, Richard (Sarah Marlborough’s father), 83
Jermy, Thomas, 97
Jersey, Barbara, Countess of (
née
Chiffinch), 25–6, 162–3
Jersey, Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of, 162–3
Jones, George Hilton, 147
Jones, Inigo, 56
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, 250, 326, 329, 362
death and succession, 452, 458
Junto
see
Whigs
Kane, Brigadier General Richard:
papers, 8
commends Withers at Maastricht, 75
on Dutch view of Marlborough as commander, 199
and siege of Venlo, 228
on march into Germany, 258–9
on fighting in line, 283–4
on Webb at Wynendaele, 401
on siege of Tournai, 419
in battle of Malplaquet, 428–9
on Villars’ capture of Arleux, 454
on Marlborough’s peevishness, 455
as governor of Minorca, 458
on Ormonde, 462
New System of Military Discipline
, 205
Karolyi, Alexander, 250
Kassel, 265
Keegan, John, 1
Kehl, 90, 240, 249
Kensington Palace, 163
Kent, William, 477
Kerr, Lord Mark, 215
Kessel, river, 280–1, 283
Ketch, Jack, 126
Keynsham, Bristol, 117–18, 120
Killiecrankie, battle of (1689), 172
King, Colonel Richard, 217–18
Kinsale, 169–71
Kirke, Captain George, 21
Kirke, Major General Percy:
as governor of Tangier, 59
opposes Monmouth, 111, 115–16, 125
reputation for brutality, 126
conspires against James II, 136, 150
refuses religious conversion, 138–9
and William’s
invasion, 150
arrested and released, 151, 155
serves on commission for army reform, 159
campaign in Ireland, 169
Vaudemont praises, 174
Kitcher, Thomas, 340, 345
Klopp, Onno:
Der Fall des Hauses Stuart
, 467
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 12, 473
Koblenz, 249, 256, 258
La Bassée, 417, 420
La Bertoche, General, 385
La Colonie
see
Colonie
La Folie Farm, 424, 431
La Hougue, 396
battle of (1692), 168, 179, 182
Lalo, Brigadier Sampson de, 207, 428
Lamotte, Charles Motte-Houdancourt, comte de, 372, 399–400, 404–5
land tax:
and financing of war, 37
Landau, 250–1, 253, 260, 330
siege of (1705), 305
Landen, battle of (1693), 182
Langston, Colonel Thomas, 136, 148
Lanier, Major General Sir John, 147–8, 159, 174, 181, 185
Lanière Wood, 423–4, 429–30
Lansdowne, George Granville, Baron, 445
Largillière, Nicholas de, 12
La Salle, Lieutenant de (duellist), 20
Latin America:
trade agreement on, 458
Lauter, river, 305
Lawrence, Thomas Edward (‘Lawrence of Arabia’), 480
Laws (secretary to George Stepney), 218
League of Augsburg, War of the (King William’s War), 173–4, 181–2
Leau, 315, 317, 323
Villeroi besieges, 331–2
Le Blanc, Intendant of Ypres, 421
le Brun, Charles, 66
Lech, river, 280
Lediard, Thomas, 43, 98, 127
Leeds, Bridget, Duchess of (Godolphin’s granddaughter), 29
Leffinghe, 399
Lely, Sir Peter:
portraits, 14, 47, 62 Lens, 417–18
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor:
Duke of Berwick serves, 27
coalition forces against France, 79
and War of Spanish Succession, 193
on status of Prince James Francis Edward Stuart, 201
in Nine Years War, 250
offers honours and posts to Marlborough, 280, 302–3, 421
succeeded by Joseph I, 326
Lessines, 377, 378–9
Levellers, 39
Lever, Sir Tresham, 185
Liège, 229–30, 310, 332
Life of James II
, 128, 157, 165
Lille:
siege of (1708), 391–9, 401–2, 408
falls to Marlborough, 402–4
garrisons diverted to Hompesch, 455
restored to France, 459
‘Lillibulero’ (song), 143–4
Limburg:
captured, 247, 248, 251
French threaten, 310
Limerick:
siege of (1690), 168–9, 171
Treaty of (1691), 171
Lincoln, Abraham, 230
Lionne, Colonel Charles-Hughes, comte de, 366
Lisle, Alice, 18, 126
Lives of the Two Illustrious Generals, The
(anon.), 42
Lloyd, Captain David, 153, 166, 183–5
Lloyd, Captain Thomas, 20
Locke, John:
political philosophy, 15
reforms coinage, 189
London
(ship), 68
London:
Whig sympathies, 36
Trained Bands, 49
court life in, 55–6
population and growth, 55–6
and James II’s army, 134–5
General Post Office, 223
London Gazette
, 25, 134, 220–1, 316, 324–5, 400, 408, 461
Londonderry, 166
Lords, House of:
composition, 29
abolished under Commonwealth, 39
Marlborough attends, 110
debates peace terms (1711), 460
approves Treaty of Utrecht, 462
see also
Parliament
Loseke, Colonel, 385
Lottum, Lieutenant General Count, 386–7, 393, 426
Louis XIV, King of France:
army in Flanders, 4
appearance and stature, 13
and Treaty of Utrecht, 15
expansionist policy, 51, 66, 90, 481
and Treaty of Dover, 51, 65
war against Dutch, 52, 65–9, 146
at siege of Maastricht, 70, 74, 76
continental coalition against, 79
orders destruction of Palatinate, 81
ends Dutch war, 89–90
correspondence with James Duke of York, 95
and Anne’s marriage to Prince George, 106
financial support for James II, 109
revokes Edict of Nantes, 129
invades Rhineland (1688), 146
recognises William as monarch, 188
and Spanish succession, 192–3, 357
recognises Prince James Francis Stuart as James II’s heir, 194
orders to Boufflers, 224
Bavaria allies with, 239
German strategy, 250
strategy in Germany, 250
orders Villeroi to follow Marlborough into Germany, 260
and Tallard at Blenheim, 288
and defeat at Blenheim, 296
sanctions Allègre’s deputation to The Hague, 318–19
instructs Villeroi on Ramillies deployment, 333, 338
and effects of Ramillies defeat, 349
and Mme de Maintenon, 356
and Charles XII of Sweden, 358
and Allied attack on Toulon, 359
and captured officers, 368
and campaign of 1708 in Spanish Netherlands, 369
on importance of Oudenarde, 378
on Allied threat to Lille, 391
told of Oudenarde defeat, 392
court-martials Lamotte for fall of Ghent, 405
rejects Allied peace terms (1709), 409–11, 420
appoints Villars commander in Flanders, 412
and French weakness, 419
gives permission to Villars to offer battle, 421, 423
informed of battle of Malplaquet, 430, 433
resumes peace negotiations after Malplaquet, 435
see also
France
Louis XV, King of France, 462
Louis, Prince
see
Baden, Louis William I
Louisa Maria Theresa Stuart, Princess, 12
Louisbourg, Cape Breton Island, 459
Louvain, 316–17, 349
Louvière gap, 422–3
Louvois, François Michel le Tellier, marquis de, 79, 86, 130, 147
Lovelace, John, 3rd Baron, 147
Low Countries
see
Flanders; Spanish Netherlands; United Provinces
Ludgershall (constituency), 31
Lumley, Lieutenant General Henry:
at the Schellenberg, 272, 275
in attack on Lines of Brabant, 312–14
commands cavalry at Ramillies, 338, 339
discusses troop allocation with Marlborough, 369
at battle of Oudenarde, 386–7
Lumley, Henry, Viscount, 431, 477
Lutzingen, 286–7, 289, 297
Luxembourg, chevalier de, 399, 432
Luxembourg, Marshal François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de, 162, 173–4, 182
Lyme Regis, Dorset:
in Monmouth rebellion, 111–13
Lyttelton, Sir Charles, 61
Maas, river, 225, 229–30
Maastricht:
siege of (1673), 70–7
in Marlborough’s strategy, 229
Villeroi threatens, 240, 310
Marlborough reaches, 311
and Flanders campaign (1708), 375
Marlborough visits (1712–13), 464–5
Macartney, Major General George:
sells regiment, 24
Toryism, 36
on Marlborough’s love for Sarah, 88
as Mohun’s second in duel, 120
accused of rape and cashiered, 415
bravery at Malplaquet, 416
reinstated, 416
dismissed, 445
qualities, 477
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Baron, 5, 48, 147, 183
McBane, Private Donald, 72
Macelligott, Roger, 170
Machado, Antonio, 460
Mackay, Hugh, 172, 174, 181, 185
Madrid, 329–30, 350
Treaty of (1715), 459