Authors: Richard Holmes
67
Deane
Journal
p.59.
68
Churchill
Marlborough
V p.407.
69
Goslinga
Mémoires
pp.53–4.
70
Eugène
Memoirs
p.113.
71
D’Artaignan’s account in De Vault and Pelet VIII p.386.
72
Schöning
Natzmer
p.289.
73
Chandler
Robert Parker
p.73.
74
Churchill
Marlborough
V p.418.
75
Eugène
Memoirs
p.114.
76
Schöning
Natzmer
p.293.
77
Goslinga
Mémoires
p.59.
78
Blackader
Life and Diary
p.318.
79
Vendôme to Louis XIV 19 July 1708 in De Vault and Pelet VIII p.391.
80
Eugène
Memoirs
p.116.
81
Blackader
Life and Diary
p.320.
82
Deane
Journal
p.62.
83
Matthew Bishop
The Life and Adventures of Matthew Bishop of Deddington in Oxfordshire
(London 1744) p.160.
84
Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 12 July 1708 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
II p.1024.
85
Marlborough to Godolphin 12 and 16 June 1708 ibid. pp.1025, 1026.
86
Goslinga
Mémoires
p.72.
87
Eugène
Memoirs
p.118.
88
Goslinga
Mémoires
p.68.
89
Churchill
Marlborough
V p.442.
90
Saint-Simon V p.64.
91
Eugène
Memoirs
p.117.
92
Bishop
Life and Adventures
p.162.
93
De Vault and Pelet VIII p.89.
94
Marlborough to the Earl of Manchester 15 July 1708 in Murray
Dispatches
IV p. 109.
95
Marlborough to Cadogan 31 July (twice) and 1 August 1708 ibid. pp.139–41.
96
Marlborough to Cadogan 2 August 1708 ibid. p.144.
97
Marlborough to Eugène 16 August 1708 ibid. p.173.
98
De Vault and Pelet VIII p.91.
99
Marlborough to Godolphin 20 September 1709 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
II p.1100.
100
Marlborough to Boyle 23 August 1708 in Murray
Dispatches
IV p.184.
101
Marlborough to Boyle 3 September 1708 ibid. pp.203–4.
102
Marlborough to Galway 10 September 1708 ibid. pp.218–19.
103
Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 17 September 1708 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
II p.1097.
104
Blackader
Life and Diary
pp.327–8.
105
Marlborough to Godolphin 20 September 1708 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
II p.1099.
106
Marlborough to Godolphin 24 September 1708 ibid. p.1100.
107
Marlborough to Heinsius 24 September 1708 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
p.402.
108
Marlborough to Earle 24 September 1708 in Murray
Dispatches
IV p.236.
109
Marlborough to Earle 24 September 1708 ibid. p.240.
110
This is the French version from ‘Projet pour secourir Lille’ in De Vault and Pelet VIII pp.454–6. See also Churchill
Marlborough
V p.506.
111
Marlborough to Godolphin 27 September 1708 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
II p.1104.
112
Lamotte ‘Détail du combat de Wynendaele’ in De Vault and Pelet VIII pp.444–9.
113
London Gazette
20–23 September 1708.
114
Marlborough to Webb 29 September 1708 in Murray
Dispatches
IV p.242.
115
Marlborough to Godolphin 1 October 1708 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
II p.1107.
116
Godolphin to Marlborough 14 December 1708 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
II p.1175.
117
Kane
Campaigns
p.79.
118
Duffy
The Fortress
p.38.
119
Marlborough to Sunderland 19 October 1708 in Murray
Dispatches
IV p.269.
120
Marlborough to Pascal 7 November 1708 ibid. p.293.
121
Marlborough to Boyle 27 November 1708 ibid. p.323.
122
Churchill
Marlborough
V p.523.
123
Marlborough to Stair 10 November 1708 in Murray
Dispatches
IV pp.298–9.
124
‘Articles pour la citadelle de Lille’ 9 December 1708 in De Vault and Pelet VIII p.661. There were minor modifications to these terms: for instance, the Allies thought that ten rounds per man was quite enough. The inclusion of the ‘matches burning’ condition implies that there were still matchlocks in use by the French army, though equally it may simply be a formal survival from an even more smoky age.
125
Goslinga
Mémoires
p.96.
126
Marlborough to Godolphin 6 and 28 November 1708 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
II pp.1141, 1151.
127
Marlborough to Godolphin 3 December 1708 ibid. p.1155.
128
Marlborough to Godolphin 6 December 1708 ibid. p.1159.
129
Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 17 December 1708 ibid. p.1171.
130
Davies
Life and Adventures
pp.329, 340–1.
131
Deane
Journal
p.74.
132
Marlborough to Godolphin 3 January 1709 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
II p.1184.
CHAPTER 8
:
Decline, Fall and Resurrection
1
Gregg
Queen Anne
p.277.
2
Ibid. p.279.
3
Godolphin to Duchess of Marlborough 25 and 22 October 1708 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
II pp.1139, 1137.
4
Godolphin to Marlborough 26 October 1708 ibid. pp.1139–40.
5
Godolphin to Marlborough 29 October 1708 ibid. p.1142.
6
Prince George to Marlborough 28 May 1706 in BL Add Mss 61001 f.94.
7
Marlborough to Boyle 27 November 1708 in Murray
Dispatches
IV p.323.
8
Sarah Duchess of Marlborough
Private Correspondence
II pp.412–13; Brown
Letters
p.263.
9
Gregg
Queen Anne
pp.282–3.
10
Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 25 May 1709 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
III p.1255.
11
Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 19 May 1709 ibid. pp.1250–1.
12
Wolf
Louis XIV
p.565.
13
Cadogan to Marlborough 6 December 1709, Cadogan Papers.
14
C. Sturgill
Marshal Villars and the War of the Spanish Succession
(London 1965) p.85.
15
Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 9 June 1709 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
III pp.1268–9.
16
Sarah Duchess of Marlborough
Private Correspondence
I p.120.
17
Henry L. Snyder ‘The Duke of Marlborough’s Request of his Captain-Generalcy for Life: A Re-examination’ in
Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research
Vol. 45 1967 p.69.
18
Marlborough to Queen Anne 10 October 1709 ibid. pp.73–4.
19
Queen Anne to Marlborough 25 October 1704 in BL Add Mss 61101 f.163.
20
Gregg
Queen Anne
p.297.
21
Godolphin to Marlborough 20 and 21 March 1710 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
III p.1440.
22
Snyder ‘Duke of Marlborough’s Request’ p.80.
23
Scouller
Armies of Queen Anne
p.272.
24
Marlborough to Walpole 25 July 1709 in Murray
Dispatches
IV p.551.
25
Cadogan to Marlborough 22 April 1709, Cadogan Papers.
26
Marlborough to Major General Palmes 23 April 1709 in Murray
Dispatches
IV p.485.
27
Wolf
Louis XIV
p.565.
28
Marlborough to Godolphin 20 June 1709 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
III p.1280.
29
Godolphin to Marlborough 10 June 1709 ibid. p.1281.
30
Marlborough to Godolphin 24 June 1709 ibid. p.1283.
31
Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 27 June 1709 ibid. p.1286.
32
Deane
Journal
p.81.
33
Goslinga
Mémoires
p.105.
34
Burton
Captain-General
p.146.
35
Louis to Villars 2 July 1709 in De Vault and Pelet IX p.49.
36
Marlborough to Heinsius 10 July 1709 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
p.444.
37
Marlborough to Heinsius 24 July 1709 ibid. p.448.
38
Marlborough to Godolphin 30 July 1709 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
III p.1317.
39
Marlborough to Queen Anne 29 July 1709 in Murray
Dispatches
IV p.556.
40
Deane
Journal
p.84.
41
Kane
Campaigns
p.83.
42
Wilson
Journal
p.75.
43
Marlborough to Heinsius 2 September 1709 in
Marlborough – Heinsius
p.462.
44
Goslinga
Mémoires
p.100.
45
Godolphin to Marlborough 25 June 1706 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
II pp.598–9.
46
Marlborough to Godolphin 6 July 1706 ibid. p.600.
47
Churchill
Marlborough
VI p.132.
48
Orkney in
English Historical Review
April 1904 p.317.
49
Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 10 September 1709 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
III p.1359.
50
De Vault and Pelet IX p.343.
51
Orkney in
English Historical Review
April 1904 p.317.
52
Burton
Captain-General
p.159.
53
De la Colonie
Mémoires
p.442.
54
Orkney in
English Historical Review
April 1904 p.319.
55
De la Colonie
Mémoires
pp.443–5.
56
Wilson
Journal
p.78.
57
Deane
Journal
p.94.
58
Davies
Life and Adventures
pp.364–6.
59
Chandler
Robert Parker
pp.88–9.
60
Deane
Journal
p.94.
61
Atkinson
Marlborough
p.402.
62
Marlborough to Godolphin 13 September 1709 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
III p.1363.
63
Chandler
Marlborough
p.261.
64
Boufflers to Louis 11 September 1709 in De Vault and Pelet IX p.45.
65
Orkney in
English Historical Review
April 1904 p.319.
66
Ibid. p.320.
67
Drake
Amiable Renegade
p.167.
68
Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough 26 September 1709 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
III p.1377.
69
Orkney in
English Historical Review
April 1904 pp.320–1.
70
Blackader
Life and Diary
pp.351–2.
71
Bishop
Life and Adventures
p.214.
72
Marlborough to Godolphin 13 September 1709 in Snyder
Marlborough – Godolphin
III p.1365.
73
Marlborough to Boyle 13 September 1709 in Murray
Dispatches
IV p.597.
74
Marlborough to Villars 13 September 1709 ibid. p.596.