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Marlborough

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Marlborough
Authors and Contributors      By (author) J. R. Jones
SeriesBritish Lives
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenreBiographies: Historical, Political and Military
British and Irish History
World history - c 1500 to c 1750
ISBN/Barcode 9780521375931
ClassificationsDewey:942.07092
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 25 February 1993
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

John Churchill, first duke of Marlborough, was one of the two greatest military commanders in British history and the first subject to achieve and exercise a dominating influence in European affairs. With Wellington and Nelson he is the nearest that Britain has had to a national hero, yet today his reputation has faded. Few, apart from specialists in military history, have any appreciation of the extent of his achievements. This new study sets Marlborough's career in its contexts: the royal Court of the last Stuart monarchs, the desperate struggle against French attempts to establish hegemony in western Europe and the bitter political strife in Britain between the Whig and the Tory parties. It examines the opportunistic ways in which John Churchill rose from obscurity and poverty to wealth and greatness, his decisive role in the Revolution of 1688 and the circumstances and reasons for his dramatic fall.