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to Sarah, 165
    letter asking pardon of father, 166
    depends on Marlboroughs’ support, 174
    warned of Lady Fitzharding’s indiscretion, 176
    moves to Syon House, 177
    on Marlborough’s imprisonment in Tower, 180
    and Mary’s death, 186
    death of son Gloucester and succession question, 191–2, 327–9
    favours Marlborough’s daughters on marriage, 191
    accession, 194
    offers dukedom and pension to Marlborough, 232–3
    Tory sympathies, 233
    and death of Sarah’s son John (Blandford), 236–7
    deteriorating relations with Sarah, 238, 299, 304, 329, 351, 353–4, 365, 407–8, 414, 436
    ennobles Tories, 238
    prorogues Parliament (1703), 238
    supports occasional conformity, 239
    informed of Blenheim victory, 298
    and tacked Occasional Conformity Bill, 299
    Sarah’s breach with, 301
    and Emperor’s offer of honour to Marlborough, 302
    gives dowry to Marlborough’s daughter Mary, 303
    and general election (1703), 304
    sends reassuring letter to Marlborough, 322
    values Marlborough’s advice, 327
    all-party government, 351, 353–4, 363
    health decline, 353–4, 463, 468
    and Whig junto, 353
    and appointment of successor to Peter Mews, 355
    appoints Somers to Cabinet, 364
    and Whig ascendancy, 412
    declines Marlborough’s request for captain generalcy for life, 413, 415, 436–7
    final meeting with Sarah, 436, 442
    praises Malplaquet victory, 438
    dismisses Godolphin, 443
    dissolves Parliament (1710), 444
    Sarah corresponds with after breach, 445
    insists on dismissal of Sarah and daughters, 448–9
    Marlborough meets (1710), 449
    ceases payments on Blenheim Palace, 450
    receives Willigo Godolphin with peppercorn rent for Blenheim, 454
    dismisses Marlborough, 461
    and payments to Marlborough, 461
    approves Marlborough’s departure for continent, 463
    and Hanoverian succession, 467–8
    death and burial, 469–70
    and Marlborough’s return from continent, 469
    Marlborough pleads for mercy for libeller, 480 see also Cockpit, the
    Antwerp:
    French wish to control, 66
    Allied attempt on (1703), 241–4
    Marlborough takes, 349
    Marlborough proposes as capital of Spanish Netherlands, 371
    Marlborough visits (1812–13), 464, 467, 469
    Arco, Jean Baptiste, comte d’, 270–4, 276
    Ardennes, 249
    Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of, 94–6, 108, 110–11, 128
    Argyll, John Campbell, 2nd Duke of:
    fights duel, 21
    shares command with Cadogan, 211
    attacks Ramillies, 344
    at Oudenarde, 386
    on Webb’s loquaciousness, 401
    opposes Marlborough’s bid for captain generalcy for life, 415
    at Malplaquet, 426, 428
    denies wearing breastplate, 428
    supports Harley, 442
    purged from army, 467
    command in 1715 Jacobite rebellion, 470
    qualities, 477
    Arleux, 454, 456
    Arlington, Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of, 45–7, 51, 60, 63, 69, 76
    arms and armour:
    development and supply, 204–5
    Armstrong, Captain-Lieutenant Sir Thomas, 17
    army (British):
    under Charles II, 48–50, 53–4, 78
    officers’ commissions and careers, 54–5, 446–7
    James II’s, 131–5
    Catholics in, 132–4, 140
    and conspiracy against James II, 140
    Marlborough advocates reform, 140
    Marlborough remodels under William, 158–9
    mutiny (1689) and desertions, 158, 160, 221–2
    supply and foraging, 160–1
    unrest and dissatisfaction in, 160
    reduced after Treaty of Ryswick, 189
    strength of units, 216, 221
    recruitment, 221
    qualities and character, 477–8
    Arneth, Alfred, Ritter von, 375
    Arni, Eric Gruber von, 266, 306
    Arras, 453, 455
    Artagnan, Charles de Batz de Castelmore, comte d’, 76
    Artaignan, Lieutenant General Joseph de Montesquiou, comte d’, 384, 387–8, 424, 432
    artillery see cannon
    Ashe House, Dorset, 41–3
    asiento de negros , 458
    Asse, Flanders, 374–5
    Ath, 349, 395
    Athens:
    siege of Acropolis (1687), 74
    Athlone, General Godert de Ginkel, 1st Earl of, 169, 171, 224
    Atkinson, C.T., 80, 171, 184, 429
    Atkyns, Captain Richard, 40
    Aubach, Lieutenant General, Count of, 312
    Aubenchel le Sec, 454
    Aughrim, battle of (1691), 16,