DUKE’S AMBUSH REAPS PALATIAL REWARD
― david ellis ∙ AFTER John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, marched 56,000 British and Austrian troops five weeks from the Low Countries to the Danube in 1704 to defeat an even greater number of French in the Battle of Blenheim during the War of Spanish Succession, his Queen on his return home asked what she could give him in appreciation of such a marvelous British conquest. ∙ The Duke and his wife, the Duchess Sarah, decided a little place up the country would nice, [...].
