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by Richard Holmes


  troops exhausted, 317

  Opdam refuses to serve with, 318

  at battle of Ramillies, 338, 341, 346

  and attempted French landing in Scotland, 369

  at battle of Oudenarde, 386–8

  attends council of war with Marlborough, 391

  death, 402

  Oxenstiern, General Gabriel, 429

  Oxford:

  Charles calls Parliament in (1681), 91

  Oxford, Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of, 27, 50, 138, 158

  Oxford and Mortimer, Robert Harley, 1st Earl of:

  and creation of peers, 28–9

  and succession to Anne, 192, 468

  Cadogan asks leave to accompany Marlborough on travels, 211

  Strafford praises Cadogan to, 217

  and Parliament’s refusal of pension to Marlborough, 234

  and Marlborough’s attack on Lines of Brabant, 247, 315

  and payment for Blenheim Palace, 301, 445

  influence on Anne, 304

  and Sunderland’s appointment to Vienna, 304

  Marlborough writes to on 1705 campaign, 310

  and Marlborough’s 1706 operations against Villeroi, 333

  in Anne’s all-party government, 351, 353–4

  and Abigail Masham, 354–5, 412, 438

  criticises management of war in Spain, 363

  Godolphin and Marlborough demand dismissal, 363–4

  and Greg’s treasonable activities, 363

  Marlborough’s relations with, 365

  leaves government, 373

  relations with Anne, 412

  opposition policy, 438

  and Sacheverell trial, 438

  heads government, 442, 447

  urges dismissal of Godolphin, 443

  arranges dismissal of de Cardonnel, 445

  attempts to deny Marlborough’s patronage, 447

  Marlborough requests funding for 1711 campaign, 454

  opens peace negotiations with Torcy, 458

  and Marlborough’s wish for end to war, 460

  calls on Anne to dismiss Marlborough, 461

  and Philip V of Spain and Treaty of Utrecht, 462

  and Marlborough’s departure for continent, 464

  dismissed by Anne, 469

  impeached, 470, 472

  Paget, John, 184

  Palatinate:

  Turenne’s campaign in, 81

  Pallavicini, Lieutenant General Charles Emmanuel, Baron, 368

  Palmer, Lady Barbara (Lady Barbara Fitzroy), 65

  Palmes, Major General Francis, 292–3, 324, 360, 416

  Palmes, Patrick, 36

  Panton, Thomas, 431

  Parke, Colonel Dan, 297–8

  Parker, Captain Robert:

  on battle of Malplaquet, 8, 428

  dismissed by Tyrconnell, 133

  Protestantism, 133

  on siege of Venlo, 228

  and capture of Liège, 229

  and surrender of Chartreuse, 230

  and Farewell’s raid on Marlborough’s yacht, 231

  on Villeroi’s attack on Tongres, 241

  on Opdam’s flight to Breda, 245

  describes marches, 262

  action at Blenheim, 285, 287, 291

  on drowned soldiers on broken bridge over Danube, 295

  criticises Slangenburg, 323–4

  at Ramillies, 334, 336, 340–2, 345

  on ground at Oudenarde, 385

  on Marlborough’s reconnaissance of Villars’ position, 455

  in siege of Bouchain, 457

  on orders to Ormonde, 462

  on Examiner’s accusing Marlborough of cowardice, 463

  praises Marlborough, 480–1

  Parliament:

  Convention, 44, 156

  and Charles II’s request for funds for Dutch War, 77

  Charles II dissolves, 91

  and Popish Plot, 91

  and religious differences, 110

  James II dissolves, 131–2

  refuses pension to Marlborough, 234

  supports funding of war, 330, 355–6

  first United Kingdom sitting (1707), 363

  Anne dissolves (1710), 444

  approves Treaty of Utrecht, 462

  see also Commons, House of; Lords, House of

  Pascal, Colonel, 402

  Paschall, Revd Andrew, 16, 127

  peace negotiations:

  Victor Amadeus-France (1696), 188

  Alliance-French (1709–10), 215–16, 409–11, 410–21, 416, 435, 441, 458–60

  French-Dutch (1705), 318–20

  see also Carlowitz, Peace of; Nijmegen, Peace of; Utrecht, Treaty of

  Pembroke, Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of, 325, 409

  Pendlebury, Colonel, 221

  Penn, William, 18, 198

  Pennefather, Colonel Matthew, 207

  Penruddock, Colonel John, 43

  Pepys, Samuel:

  in Tangier, 10, 59, 82

  view of Marlborough, 10

  on Nell Gwyn, 27

  on restoration of Charles II, 45

  on James II’s mistresses, 47

  and Charles II’s army, 49

  on court life, 55

  on Charles II’s relations with Queen, 62

  on behaviour of maids of honour, 84

  rebuilds British fleet, 90

  on loss of Gloucester, 97–9

  Perryman, Robert, 222

  Peter I (the Great), Tsar of Russia, 306

  Peterborough, Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of, 208–9, 280, 350–1, 368

  Petre, Father, 129

  Pfeiffer, Major General, 382

  Philip V, King of Spain (earlier Philippe, duc d’Anjou):

  and War of Spanish Succession, 192–3, 357, 410, 420

  and peace negotiations (1709–10), 435, 458

  recognised as king of Spain, 458

  and succession to French throne, 462

  Philipsburg, 159–60

  Pick, Lieutenant, 69

  Plassendale (Passchendaele), 399

  Plattenburg, General, 382

  Plessen, Christian Siegfried von, 107

  Plymouth:

  and William’s invasion, 147

  poisons, affair of the (France, 1670s), 66–7

  Poltava, battle of (1709), 47

  Pope, Alexander, 473

  Popish Plot (1678), 17, 91–2

  Portland, William Bentinck, 1st Earl of:

  as William’s adviser, 158

  differences with Marlboroughs, 162–3

  earldom, 172

  retires, 191

  warns Marlborough against leaving army early, 321–2

  Portmore, Major General David Colyear, 1st Earl of, 24, 205

  Portsmouth, Louise de Kéroualle, Duchess of, 63, 70, 91, 93, 108–9, 312

  Portugal:

  campaign in, 209, 248, 350, 410

  Dutch generals in, 264

  agreement with Spain in Treaty of Madrid, 459

  postal services:

  on Continent, 223

  Poulett, John, 2nd Baron, 41–3

  Prendergast, Sir Thomas, 207, 372–3, 416, 428

  Presbyterians:

  excluded from Parliament, 39

  Priest, Whadcock, 465

  Prince Edward’s Island, 459

  Prince (ship), 68

  prisoners of war:

  exchange of, 366–7

  Protestantism:

  Whig support for, 37

  Marlborough’a commitment to, 138–9

  refugees from Palatinate, 441

  see also Huguenots

  Prussia:

  troops in Grand Alliance, 201–2

  troops in Brabant, 326

  troops at battle of Oudenarde, 382, 387–8

  troops in 1711 campaign, 452–3

  claim on Prince of Orange’s territory, 453

  public accounts commission:

  investigates Marlborough, 460

  Puisan, marquis de, 204

  Puissiers, Catherine, mar
quise de (née Villiers), 163

  Pulteney (supplicant), 446

  Purcell, Henry, 143

  Puységur, Lieutenant General Jacques François de Chastenet, marquis de, 384, 431–2

  Pym, John, 83

  Queensberry, James Douglas, 2nd Marquess of (ealier Earl of Drumlanrig), 108

  Quesnoy, Le, 453, 462

  Raby, Thomas Wentworth, Baron see Strafford, 3rd Earl of

  Radcliffe, Dr John, 149

  Rain, 278, 280

  Rakóczi, Francis, 250–1

  Rambaut, Philip, 441

  Ramillies, battle of (1706):

  Danish dragoons at, 202

  Cadogan reports on French deployment at, 217

  pursuit following, 220

  Marlborough’s tactics at, 242

  French manoeuvres at, 286

  deployment and engagement, 332–47, 479

  casualties, 348

  effects of victory, 349, 356

  Allied guns at, 478

  fought on Sunday, 478–9

  Rantzau, Major General Josef, 382, 384, 385

  Rastatt, Treaty of (1714), 459

  Ratisbon, 251

  Regency Act (1705), 327, 329

  Regiments (British):

  Bevil Skelton’s, 79

  Black Watch, 471

  Calthorp’s, 75

  Cameronians (Fergusson’s), 165, 340

  Coldstream Guards, 48, 50, 122, 124, 161

  Duchess’s, 89

  Duke of Berwick’s, 140

  Duke of St Alban’s Horse, 148

  Duke of York’s, 79

  Earl of Arran’s, 211

  Earl of Dumbarton’s (later Orkney’s), 114, 118, 120–1, 126, 157, 274

  Earl of Peterborough’s, 79

  Foot Guards (1st), 8, 49–50, 54–5, 122, 124–6, 136, 256, 267, 272, 274, 292, 405, 428

  Harrisons’s, 308

  Hepburn’s, 52n

  Hill’s Foot, 247

  Holland, 89

  Horse Grenadiers, 116, 117

  Horse Guards (‘Oxford Blues’), 50, 111, 114, 116, 122, 148, 158

  Irish Dragoons, 347

  King’s Own Regiment of Dragoons, 101

  Kirke’s, 125

  Leigh’s, 209

  Life Guards, 50, 52, 54, 100, 116, 161

  Lord Arlington’s, 89

  Lord Baltimore’s, 209

  Lord Forbes’s, 155

  Lord High Admiral’s Foot, 61, 69–70

  Lord Orrery’s, 217

  Lord Raby’s Dragoons, 246

  Meredith’s, 340

  Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment, 51

  Queen Dowager’s, 111

  Queen’s, 367

  Queen’s Royal Regiment (2nd of Foot), 51

  Royal Dragoons, 120, 124, 148

  Royal English, 52, 79

  Royal Fusiliers, 162

  Royal Regiment of Ireland, 133, 159, 199, 428–9

  Royal Scots (1st of Foot), 52

  Scots Dragoons, 347

  Sir Edward Hales’s, 132

  Sir John Fenwick’s, 73

  Sir Thomas Prendergast’s, 372

  Thomas Erle’s, 210

  Trelawney’s, 114, 116, 125, 135

  Wade’s, 307

  Wallis’s Dragoons, 379

  Webb’s, 390

  Reichenbach, river, 282

  Reynell, Sir Thomas, 42

  Rheinberg, 230

  Rhine, river, 224, 250, 370–1, 452

  Rhineland:

  French invade, 146

  Richards, Colonel Michael, 280

  Richmond, Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of, 464

  Ridley, Grace, 475

  Riley, John, 25

  Rivers, General Richard Savage, 4th Earl (earlier Viscount Colchester), 136, 170, 174, 209, 350, 414, 461

  roads, 14–15

  Robethon, John de, 260, 261, 467

  Rochester, Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of:

  staff of office, 13, 180–1

  on James Duke of York’s Catholicism, 95

  works with Godolphin, 100–1

  negotiates Anne’s marriage with Prince George, 106

  on Earl of Dorset, 154

  and Anne’s parliamentary grant, 164

  mediates between Anne and Mary, 178

  and Anne’s ill treatment in Bath, 180–1

  and refusal of parliamentary grant to Marlborough, 234

  refuses move to Ireland, 234

  Rochford, William Henry Zulestein, 1st Earl of, 172

  Rocques, Guillaume Le Vasseur des, 401

  Rodger, N.A.M., 69, 145, 189, 441

  Romney, Henry Sidney, Earl of, 137, 142, 179, 195

  Ronché, Father, 98

  Rooke, Admiral Sir George, 298

  Ross, Lieutenant General Charles, 448

  Roundway Down, battle of (1643), 40

  Rowe, Brigadier Archibald, 264, 291–2

  Rowney, Thomas, 301

  Rowse, A.L., 63

  Roxborough, Robert Ker, 3rd Earl of, 99

  Royal Hospitals (Chelsea and Kilmainham), 90, 306–8, 447

  Royal James (ship), 68

  Ruffy, Major General Anne-Marie-Louis, comte de, 372

  Rummersheim, 420

  Rupert, Prince Palatine, 41, 61, 78

  Rupert’s Land, 459

  Russell, Edward see Orford, Earl of

  Russell, Colonel John, 49–50, 54

  Russell, William, Lord, 17, 91, 93

  Ruvigny, marquis de see Galway, 1st Earl of

  Ruyter, Admiral Michiel Adriaanszoon de, 68, 78

  Ryder, Dudley, 472

  Rye House conspiracy (1683), 92

  Rysbrack, William, 477

  Ryswick, Treaty of (1697), 188, 192, 249

  Sabin, Philip, 46

  Sabine, Brigadier Joseph, 207, 382, 384

  Sacheverell, Henry, 414, 438

  Sackville, Major General Edward, 184

  St Albans, Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of, 62

  St Amand, 455

  St-Eloois-Vijve, 451

  St Ghislain, 423

  St-Hilaire, Lieutenant General, 390

  St John, Henry see Bolingbroke, Viscount

  St Michael (ship), 68

  St Omer, 454

  St Paul’s Cathedral:

  Fifth Monarchy men occupy, 49

  St Paul’s School:

  Marlborough attends, 46

  St Ruth, marquis de, 16, 170–1

  Saint Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de, 383

  St Vaast-la Hougue see La Hougue

  St-Venant, 393, 419, 451

  Salee:

  corsairs, 60

  Salisbury (French ship), 215

  Salisbury, HMS, 215

  Salisch, Lieutenant General Ernst Willem von, 324

  Sancroft, William, Archibishop of Canterbury, 131, 178

  Sandby, Chaplain Josias, 8, 272–3, 278, 289, 296

  Sandwich, Edward Montagu (or Mountagu), 1st Earl of, 68

  Sandwich, Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of, 234

  Sandys, Captain (of Blues), 137

  Santlow, Hester, 481

  Sars Wood, Flanders, 422–4, 426–8, 431

  Sarsfield, Patrick, 148–9, 169–70

  Saunders, Stephen, 135

  Savage, Richard see Rivers, 4th Earl

  Saverne, 249

  Savoy, Eugène, Prince of see Eugène, Prince of Savoy-Carignan

  Savoy, Victor Amadeus, Duke of see Victor Amadeus, Duke of Savoy

  Saxe, Marshal Maurice, comte de, 205

  Saxe-Gotha, Frederick II, Prince of, 359

  Scarborough, Frances, Countess of, 23

  Scarburgh, Sir Charles, 98

  Scarpe, river, 451–3, 456–7

  Schaerken, 385

  Scheldt, river, 39, 362, 377, 380, 383, 397, 402, 422, 453

  Schellenberg, the, Donauwörth, 269–76, 306, 479

  Schomberg, Meinhard, 3rd Duke of, and Duke of Leinster, 130, 157–9, 167–8, 171, 195, 248, 464

  Schulenberg, General Lewin Friedrich,
Count, 401, 426, 430

  Schultz, Lieutenant General Jobst, Baron of Scholten, 338, 344

  Schwenningen, 281–2, 287

  Scotland:

  Union with England (1707), 31, 327, 353, 356

  troops raised, 50

  Covenanters in, 93–4

  James Duke of York in, 93–5

  Test Act, 95

  Mackay’s campaign in, 172, 456

  and Disarming Acts, 471

  Jacobite rebellions (1715 & 1745), 471

  Scots brigade, 426

  Scott, Sir Edward, 170

  Scott, Colonel Robert, 79

  Scouller, R.E., 307, 367

  Sedgemoor, battle of (1686), 17, 111, 119–25, 127–8

  Sedley, Catherine, 47, 87–8, 154

  Sedley, Sir Charles, 87

  Sensée, river, 452–4

  Septennial Act (1716), 31

  Settlement, Act of (1701), 192, 468

  Seven Bishops:

  conflict with James II, 33, 131

  Sévigné, Marie, marquise de, 66

  Seymour, Conway, 21

  Seymour, Sir Edward, 32

  Seymour, General, 204

  Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 91–2

  Shaw, Captain Alexander, 21

  Shaw, Ensign Hugh, 21

  Shaw, Sir John, 21

  Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 19

  Sheriffmuir, battle of (1715), 471

  Shovell, Admiral Sir Cloudesley, 359, 365

  Shrewsbury, Adelhida, Duchess of, 29, 472

  Shrewsbury, Charles Talbot, 12th Earl (later Duke) of:

  invites William to England, 137

  and Anne’s claims for grant, 164

  stands bail for Marlborough, 180

  friendship with Marlborough, 181

  on English methods in War of League of Augsburg, 182

  and failed attack on Brest, 183, 185

  reappointed secretary of state, 183

  admits to helping Middleton in plot against William, 187

  and William’s attitude to Marlborough, 191

  and unpopularity of Slangenburg, 324

  supports Harley, 442

  appointments on death of Anne, 469

  Shrimpton, Brigadier John, 264

  Sidney, Henry see Romney, Earl of

  siege warfare, 70–5

  Sierck, 310

  Silesia, 358

  Silly, comte de, 282–3

  Silvère, Colonel de la, 296

  Sinclair, John, Master of, 21, 208

  Sinsheim, battle of (1674), 79–80

  Slangenburg, Lieutenant General Frederik Johan Baer, Heer van:

  differences with Marlborough, 220, 243, 320, 322–3, 325–6

  in attempt on Antwerp, 245

  Coehoorn falls out with, 246, 318

  proposes advance on Louvain, 316

  reputation in United Provinces, 324

  Slankamen, battle of (1691), 251

  slaves:

  agreement under Treaty of Utrecht, 458

  smallpox, 16

  Smith, John, 443

 

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