Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility, and the public collections of the countryWith biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions . ing altogether incapable of the servile dependencyand flattering insinuations requisite in the last, and endued with that cheerful lively temper and personalvalour esteemed and necessary in the other. Anne testified her sense of his services in Scotland by receiving him, on his return, into the EnglishPeerage : on the twenty-sixth of November, 1705, he was created
Portraits of illustrious personages of Great Britain : Engraved from authentic pictures in the galleries of the nobility, and the public collections of the countryWith biographical and historical memoirs of their lives and actions . ing altogether incapable of the servile dependencyand flattering insinuations requisite in the last, and endued with that cheerful lively temper and personalvalour esteemed and necessary in the other. Anne testified her sense of his services in Scotland by receiving him, on his return, into the EnglishPeerage : on the twenty-sixth of November, 1705, he was created Earl of Greenwich and Lord Chatham,and in the succeeding spring indulged his ruling disposition by serving a campaign, in the station ofBrigadier-General, under the Duke of Marlborough, and is said to have evinced great courage andprudence in the famous battle of Eamillies, as he certainly did in the sieges of Ostend and of Menin,which important post presently after surrendered to him. He returned in the autumn to Scotland, andsupported in Parliament, with all the ardour and frankness that distinguished his character, the greatquestion of the Union, by which the senate and the people were then equally agitated. During the4 ,. S. freran JOHN CAMPBELL, DUKE OF ARGYLL & GREENWICH. i-Hi)\l Till N \> 0 ^ L+V* I 11* N THK HON! AGAR ELLIS. JOHN CAMPBELL, DUKH OF IEOTLL, \ M> in I. i; r <. WWII debates oo II be gave n remarkabl in quitting the Uouae of Lords to prosonl himsolf al i to ai ag< il and tumultuous tnu1titud\ Iim efTorti. He longod however to be again engaged in active military And l>! after, being then a &ajor General, and Colonel of the third regiment of infantry, eommbattalioni in the battle of Oudenarde, where be acquired tignal credit, aa well ai in the •reduotion of Lille, Ghent, and Tournay, in the attach of the latter of which hi l in command* He had an eminont Bhare in the riotory of Vtalplnquot, which speedily followed, and which
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