The Intention's of Churchill's Marlborough

Uit/From: JSTOR, The Intention of Churchill's Marlborough, Morton J. Frisc, Polity 12, vol 4.

Overigens, een uitstekend artikel over Churchill's biografie van zijn verre voorvader. Het laat duidelijk de beperkingen zien van de militair binnen het politieke veld en hoe Churchill hier tegen over staat.



An excerpt from the excellent article on Churchill's biography on Marlborough, clearly showing the limitations of a soldier within the political framework and Churchill's view on this.

Wars of the age of Louis XIV

Een soort encyclopedie over de oorlogen van Lodewijk de XIV. Soms wel erg simplistisch. Vond dit stukje over Malborough wel grappig.

Marlborough remained in touch with leading Jacobites for several years, rebel inclinations or at least contacts for which he was briefly imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1692. The direct cause of his temporary fall from royal grace was a wrongful accusation that he had supported a plot against the king.

Restored to royal favor by 1700, he was appointed captain-general, and commanded the English and Dutch field armies in the United Provinces at the start of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714). In his accounts of battle and the war, Marlborough unfairly belittled the overall contribution of Dutch arms, a prejudice also reflected in many British histories of the conflict. This habit likely was born of a lifelong penchant for self-promotion and intrigue, to the great benefit of his fortune and career. In fact, the Dutch war effort on land Maritime Powers exceeded that of the British in terms of men, money, and matériel, though at sea the Royal Navy clearly pulled away from the Dutch Navy in the level of its contribution.

In addition, Marlborough enjoyed a remarkable and effective partnership with Prince Eugene of Savoy, who fought at his side as co-commander during three of Marlborough’s four great battlefield victories.


A kind of encyclopedia on warfare in the age of Louis XIV, well written lots of info also on Eastern Europe but sometimes rather simplistic as well. Rather pro-english as well (just five lines on the Raid on the Medway...)

The above quote comes from the lemma 'Marlborough', and the literature on Marlborough are the books of Chandler. Go figure.

"J.R. Jones, Marlborough" recensie ~ Book Review

Bron/Source: The Historian 56:3, 1994, p.601

Marlborough en het grote geld ~ Marlborough and money

Source:

Title: The Seamy Side of Marlborough's War.
Author: Davies, Godfrey
Article ID: 1102-1951-015-01-000002

Journal: Huntington Library Quarterly
Issue: 15:1/4 (1951/1952) p.21

Ramillies 2

Letters to the Editor
Author(s): Ciro Paoletti, Jamel Ostwald, Stanley L. Falk
Source: The Journal of Military History, Vol. 65, No. 2 (Apr., 2001), pp. 593-597
Published by: Society for Military History
(c) Jstor/JMH





(Ciro Paoletti)





(Ciro Paoletti)



(Jamel Ostwald)

Knoop over Marlborough ~~ Gen. Knoop on Marlborough

Uit: Krijgs- en Geschiedkundige geschriften, Deel 1, p. 344.
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Lt. General W.J. Knoop on Marlborough:

"You won't find this in Marlborough. A cold blooded egotist, who used military command as a means to fulfill his greed. An ambitious honourless, who used any means to reach his goals, and who used a royal mistress to elevate himself. A man without character who at first groveled before the Stuarts and who left them in the hour of danger, to worship the rising sun of William III. There's nothing in Marlboroughs character that has any attraction or awe. On the contrary: it causes disgust to anyone with a basic knowledge of human virtue and dignity. Sometimes his name is mentioned in the same line as people like Wellington; a great injustice is done to the victor of Waterloo. Because in every action of Wellington a great sense of honour and duty can be found, almost in a divine sense, of which nothing can be found in Marlborough.