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Title: An introductory history of England
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Fletcher, C. R. L. (Charles Robert Leslie), 1857-1934
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Publisher: London : Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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le was with King Louis of France and withLouis grandson, King Philip of Spain ; and anothergreat advantage was now on the side of France, namely,the possession of the Spanish Netherlands, where Philiphad been readily received as King of Spain, and, there-fore, Duke of Brabant, Count of Flanders, etc., etc. France could thus begin her campaigns by threateningHolland instead of having to fight her way through acountry bristling with carefully lortified cities as inWilliams time. It is, then, not wonderful that ourDutch friends should desire to keep the Allied Army forthe defence of their own frontier, and should, therefore,throw all obstacles in the way of the great Dukes in-cessant determination to seek out the largest FrenchArmy he could find and beat it in the field. Over theseand over all other obstacles, down to the year 1710, thegenius of Corporal John/ as his adoring soldiers calledhim, invariably triumphed. Let us see what were themeans at his disposal, and how he utilized them.
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MARLBOROUGHS ADVANTAGES 119 In the first place the English (after 1707 the British )Parliament, down to 1710, voted large and ungrudgedsupplies for the war. Inconvenient Ministers like thecrabbed old Rochester and the honest but limitedNottingham, who wanted a naval war only, were easilygot rid of. Godolphin, nominally a Tory, was LordTreasurer and a warm friend of the Duke ; Harley andSt. John, who came in as Secretary of State and Secretary-at-War respectively, at first did what they were toldto do, and only began to intrigue about 1707 ; whenthey were dismissed in 1708, Walpole, an admirablefinancier, took St. Johns place ; and, though the ToryOpposition incessantly plied the cry of Church inDanger! and endeavoured to stimulate a Church fever/as an antitoxin to the war fever, the career of victoryproved until about 1709 irresistible to the Englishpeople. In the second place, Marlborough had anincomparable second, both in diplomacy and in thefield, in Prince Eugene, of the House of

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