. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . h to write the information to France, in the hope ofdiverting a large French army to the west, and that the attack onBrest had merely been intended as a feint, which Talmashs rashnesspushed home. It is certainly difficult to think of Marlborough asa betrayer of English soldiers, whatever he might have been withregard to English and Dutch Kings. The death of Mary broughtabout his return to favour, but William bestowed no further post oftrust upon him until 1698, when he became governor of the littleDuke of Gloucester, who died in 1700
. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . h to write the information to France, in the hope ofdiverting a large French army to the west, and that the attack onBrest had merely been intended as a feint, which Talmashs rashnesspushed home. It is certainly difficult to think of Marlborough asa betrayer of English soldiers, whatever he might have been withregard to English and Dutch Kings. The death of Mary broughtabout his return to favour, but William bestowed no further post oftrust upon him until 1698, when he became governor of the littleDuke of Gloucester, who died in 1700. In 1701 he was appointedto command the troops in Holland. Annes accession madeMarlborough the most powerful man in England, Commander-in-Chief, Master-General of the Ordnance, and a By means ofhis wifes domineering influence he was able to impose his viewsupon the Queen, and to carr^ on the war with little fear of oppositionat home. He became Commander-in-Chief of the Allied forces, andafter his first campaign was promoted to a Dukedom (December 14,. JOHN CllURCIIII-I., FIKSr DUKK OK MARLBOROUGHFrom the portrait by Sir Godfrey Kiicllcr in the National Portrait Gallery Face p. 27S JOHN CHURCHILL 279 1702). His ami} was a motlej-force, which he could only control byexercising the most unfailing courtesy and the most delicate tact,while at critical moments his dispositions were liable to be utterlyfrustrated by the timorous obstinacy of the Dutch deputies. Yet at theend of nine years he had four times routed the best armies and thebest marshals of France, had captured numberless fortresses thoughtto have been rendered impregnable by the skill of Vauban, andwas threatening to march on Paris itself. No leader was ever calledupon to overcome greater obstacles before bringing his troops intoaction, and no leader ever handled his men more consummately onthe field of battle, or took more zealous care for their comfort andwelfare in camp and on the march. He was rewarded with ador
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