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John Churchill Is, By Any Reasonable Analysis, Britain's Greatest Ever Soldier. He Mastered Strategy, Tactics And Logistics. His Big Four Battles, Blenheim (which Saved The Holy Roman Empire), Ramilies, Oudenarde And Malplaquet Were Events At The Very Centre Of The European Stage. He Captured Lille, France's Second City, Overran Bavaria And Beat A Succession Of French Marshals So Badly That One, The Squat And Energetic Bofflers, Was Rewarded By Louis Xiv For Only Losing Moderately.a Coalition Manager Long Before The Phrase Was Invented, He Commanded A Huge Polyglot Army With Centrifugal Political Tendencies And Bending It To His Will By Sheer Force Of Personality.he Was Also A Politician On The Domestic Stage, Intimate With Two Monarchs, James Ii And Queen Anne, And The Prop Of Successive Cabinets. He Had Extraordinary Strength And Durability. His Family Connections Wove Him Into The Fabric Of Europe: His Sister Arabella Was James Ii's Mistress, And Their Son, James, Duke Of Berwick, Was One Of Louis Xiv's Most Successful Commanders. Although The Marlboroughs Lost Their Only Son Jack To Smallpox, Both Their Daughters Married Whig Grandees, And Their Descendants Include Sir Winston

Author

Holmes, Richard, 1946-2011

Publisher

HarperPerennial : [distributor] HarperCollins Distribution Services

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780007380329

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir