"I have not time to say more but to beg you will give my duty to the Queen, and let her know Her army has had a Glorio…"

"What gave to this country the advantage in the war of the Spanish Succession was the genius and the overwhelming pers…"

"Marlborough's talents had no flaw. As a strategist he saw clearly and simply the great issues – the relationship of w…"

"He completed William's work in converting Britain from a peripheral and quasi-isolationist kingdom of little influenc…"

"[I]n the ten campaigns he made against [the French]; during all which time it cannot be said that he ever slipped an …"

"If he had been suffered to end the war which he so gloriously carried on, we should not have had the wars we have had…"

"His splendid military genius was united with an almost unparalleled evenness of temper, and a regard for, and sympath…"

"The Duke of Marlborough talking over some Point of English History once with Bishop Burnet, and advancing some Anachr…"

"I pray to God the Scottish King do deceive me, but I am afeared he will not. For my own part, I have made of the Fren…"

"Here are six guineas for you. Do not hack me as you did my Lord Russell. I have heard that you struck him three or fo…"