Duke of Marlborough

Lily Mahtani, the Indian-born fourth wife of the Duke of Marlborough, a.k.a.

For the Preservation of an Intriguing Palace Marshall Heyman 2011

Among the former was Lord Churchill, afterwards known as the Duke of Marlborough, and the greatest soldier of the age.

London and the Kingdom - Volume II

I have met with people who assured me that the Duke of Marlborough was a coward, and that Mr. Pope was a fool; just as some Jesuits in France declare Pascal to have been a man of little or no genius, and some Jansenists affirm Father Bourdaloüe to have been a mere babbler.

Letter XXII-On Mr. Pope and Some Other Famous Poets Voltaire 1909

I have met with people who assured me that the Duke of Marlborough was a coward, and that Mr. Pope was a fool; just as some Jesuits in France declare Pascal to have been a man of little or no genius, and some Jansenists affirm Father

Letters on England 1694-1778 Voltaire 1736

Much of the bill was footed by the state, in honour of the Duke of Marlborough's wartime victories.

Baroque architecture in Britain: examples from the era 2011

It was during the reign of Mary's sister Anne 1702-14, the last Stuart monarch, that the English and Scots parliaments were united and that a British-Allied army under the Duke of Marlborough inflicted a crushing defeat on the seemingly invincible French army.

Servants To Masters Allan Mallinson 2011

It was the boots and two-wheeled sprung carts that won the Battle of Blenheim for the Duke of Marlborough, apparently.

TV review: MotherTruckers; Bullets, Boots and Bandages; Inside Men 2012

Vanbrugh's palace for the Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim was equalled in splendour only by Hawksmoor's Castle Howard in Yorkshire.

British architecture: the baroque in Britain 2011

He was the grandson of the Duke of Marlborough and the son of Lord Randolph Churchill, a Tory politician, who died young and had an unrequited dream of becoming prime minister himself.

BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL ROBERT MNOOKIN 2010

“Like the Duke of Marlborough, he was riding the whirlwind and directing the storm; something tremendous was evidently going on,”13 as Hawthorne wrote remembering the story that Alcott had told her assembled neighbors when she got back to Concord later the same day.

Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010