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4 giorni fa · General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, KG, PC (26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722 O.S. [a]) was an English soldier and statesman. From a gentry family, he served as a page at the court of the House of Stuart under James, Duke of York, through the 1670s and ...
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3 mag 2024 · John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough was one of England’s greatest generals, who led British and allied armies to important victories over Louis XIV of France, notably at Blenheim (1704), Ramillies (1706), and Oudenaarde (1708).
2 mag 2024 · Il finanziamento e l’approvvigionamento in armamenti dei Savoiardi riprenderà con regolarità solamente nell’estate del 1705, dopo la vittoria del John Churchill, Primo Duca di Marlborough, a Blenheim, che eliminerà la minaccia francese sul Danubio. Nel frattempo, i Francesi ottengono nuovi successi in Savoia.
5 giorni fa · Nel XVIII secolo l’albero genealogico degli Spencer, già Conti di Sunderland, si intrecciò con quello degli eredi di John Churchill, I duca di Marlborough, e il ramo primogenito della dinastia ...
6 giorni fa · Blenheim Palace, residence near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, built (1705–24) by the English Parliament as a national gift to John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough. It was designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and is regarded as the finest example of truly Baroque architecture in Great Britain.
7 mag 2024 · La residenza reale fa la sua prima apparizione come vera e propria location di Bridgerton nella terza stagione. Il sito, patrimonio mondiale dell'UNESCO, è la sede del Duca di Marlborough e il luogo di nascita di Winston Churchill.
4 giorni fa · Marlborough Drift. We have dwelt herein on falsehoods known as Churchillian Drift. File this one under Marlborough Drift. Churchill was nevertheless under no illusions about the faults of his ancestor. “What a downy bird he was,” he wrote his wife in 1935…. He will always stoop to conquer.
