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Charles Churchill (2 febbraio 1656 – 29 dicembre 1714) è stato un nobile, politico e generale britannico. Egli servì nella Guerra di successione spagnola sotto il comando del fratello maggiore John Churchill, I duca di Marlborough.
- British Army
- ?, 2 febbraio 1656
- ?, 29 dicembre 1714
- Regno di Gran Bretagna
General Charles Churchill (2 February 1656 – 29 December 1714) was a British Army officer who served during the War of the Spanish Succession and an English politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1701 to 1710.
- 2 February 1656
- General
- 29 December 1714 (aged 58)
- English Army
Biography. ‘After many battles fought with great bravery and conduct, [Churchill] was esteemed one of the best commanders of foot in Europe.’. His promotion to the highest ranks was thus due to personal merit as well as to the pre-eminence and influence of his brother, the Duke of Marlborough.
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- February 2, 1656
- December 29, 1714
General Charles Churchill (2 February 1656 – 29 December 1714) was an English army officer who served during the War of the Spanish Succession. Churchill was the son of Winston Churchill (1620-1688) and Elizabeth Drake. He became Lieutenant of the Tower of London in 1702. At Blenheim, serving...
CHURCHILL, CHARLES (1656–1714), general, third surviving son of Sir Winston Churchill [q. v.], was born on 2 Feb. 1656. Like his more famous brother, John Churchill, first duke of Marlborough [q. v.], he was born in the manor-house of Ashe, in the parish of Musbury, a parish situate butween Seaton and Axminster, and, through in Devonshire ...
Churchill held the office of Governor of Guernsey from 1706 to 1711. He had also been the Governor of Brussels and the Tower of London. Churchill had fought in the Battle of Steenkirk (1692), the Battle of Landen (1693) (where he captured his nephew, the French commander, the Duke of Berwick), and the Battle of Blenheim (1704).
