Extracts from Colonel Tempelhoffe's History of the Seven Years War. Also a Treatise on Winter Posts. to Which Is Added, a Narrative of Events at St. ... March to the Danube, by C.Lindsay - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1793. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... O F JOHN Duke os Marlborouqhs March to the DANUBE, AND THE Causes and" Consequences of that Measure, JOHN Churchill, Earl, and soon afterwards Duke of Marlborough, was chosen to command the forces of the confederates at a most important juncture, almost immediately after the death of William the Third, Kingof Great Britain. That sovereign, while Prince of Orange, had for seventeen years strenuously opposed the unbounded ambition and injustice of the French. While he was yet an infant, and an unprotected orphan, they had seized upon the Principality of Orange; and' some years afterwards, in like manner, without a shadow of pretext, and without deigning to assign any reason spr the measure, but that it redounded to the glory of their Monarch, they suddenly invaded and rapidly overran the United Provinces. Charles Charles the Second and his brother James had been gained over to the designs of France by means of benefits conferred upon them, not without self-interested views, white they were yet in exile. Charles continued to receive the gold of France when seated on the throne of England, and employing the forces of the British nation as far as he had power, in contradiction to every principle of established policy, he co-operated in this system of iniquity. He sent six thousand troops against the Low Countries, under the command of his natural son the Duke of Monmouth. Mr. Churchill, at that time a captain, served in this army. He was soon distinguished by his valour and conduct, and received from Marshal Turenne the appellation of the handsome Englishman, by which he was generally known in the French army at that time. The object of this expedition was nothing less atrocious, than either to bend beneath the yoke of foreign power, a people, who after an arduous st...

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