OF JOHN DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH, WITH HIS ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE: COLLECTED FROM THE FAMILY RECORDS AT BLENHEIM, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC SOURCES. ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS, MAPS, AND MILITARY PLANS. BY WILLIAM COXE, M.A. F.R.S. F.S.A. ARCHDEACON OF WILTS. VOL. III. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1819. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE THIRD VOLUME. I AT length deliver to the Public the Third Volume of the Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough, later, indeed, than I promised; but the delay was unavoidable in consequence of the quantity of interesting materials, which I was obliged to consult and arrange. I feel much satisfaction in the favourable reception which this work has experienced from the Public, and am no less gratified by the reflection, that I have been enabled, from the communications I have received, to supply a great desideratum in our national History, by developing the life and character of one of our most illustrious statesmen and warriors. I have again to express my warmest acknowledgments to Major Smith, for the continuance of his kind and able assistance in the military plans and details; and particularly for the plan of the movements preparatory to the battle of Malplaquet, as well as for the masterly delineation of the military operations in the campaign of 1711. |