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    Augsburg, 251
    see also League of Augsburg
    Augustus II, King of Poland-Lithuania, 357
    Aulnois gap, 422–3
    Austria (Empire):
    in War of Spanish Succession, 193, 362
    Hungary rebels against, 250–1
    war with Spain, 459
    Auvergne, Major General François Egon de la Tour, 426, 430
    Avesnes le Comte, 455
    Axminster, 113
    Aylmer, Admiral Matthew, Baron, 137
    Ayres, Captain (of Gloucester ), 97–8
    Baden, Ludwig Wilhelm I, Margrave of (Prince Louis):
    and Boufflers’ advance on Rhine, 224
    command on Rhine, 241, 251–2, 268
    military career, 251
    Marlborough promises to supply, 253
    favours attack on Moselle, 255–6
    at the Schellenberg, 268, 270–2, 274–5
    disagreements with Marlborough, 270
    objects to plundering of Bavaria, 278
    and Marlborough/Eugène’s strategy, 279
    at siege of Landau, 305
    defeated at Speyerbach, 305
    misses Blenheim, 305, 309
    and Marlborough’s 1705 campaign, 309–10, 312
    wounded at Schellenberg, 309
    takes waters, 311
    exasperates Marlborough by slow progress, 326
    and Marlborough’s 1706 campaign plans, 330–1
    defeated on Rhine by Villars (1706), 331–2
    Baden, Treaty of (1714), 459
    Bank of England:
    established (1694), 189
    Barcelona:
    captured by British, 329
    Barillon, Paul, 109
    Barrier Treaty, First (1709), 435
    Bart, Jean, 188
    Bastide, comte de la, 272
    Bate, Revd Richard and Elizabeth, 22
    Bath:
    in Monmouth rebellion, 117
    Anne’s court in, 180
    Sarah visits, 239
    Bathurst, Sir Benjamin, 108, 190
    Bathurst, Frances, Lady ( née Apsley), 104, 108
    battle, order of, 212–13
    Bavaria:
    defects to France, 248, 249–50, 252
    Prince William of Baden in, 251
    Marlborough fails to defeat, 261
    troops at Donauwörth, 273
    harassedand plundered, 277–8, 283, 480
    Tallard joins, 277–9, 280–1
    and battle of Ramillies, 333, 338, 346
    and absorption of Mindelheim, 463, 466
    Bavaria, Maximilian Emmanuel, Elector of:
    allies with French, 193, 239, 250
    at Höchstädt, 248
    and Marlborough’s campaign in Germany, 251, 253–4, 256, 268
    at Donauwörth, 269–72
    Marlborough harries, 277–8, 283
    and confusion of command, 282
    underestimates Marlborough’s strength at Blenheim, 282
    at battle of Blenheim, 289, 294
    joins Villeroi on Rhine, 305
    support from Duke of Berwick, 370
    threatens Brussels, 402–3
    disagreements with Villars, 412
    Bavay, 422, 432, 434
    Beachy Head, battle of (1690), 168
    Beaufort, Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of, 114, 116–17, 147
    Beaumont, John, 140
    Bedburg, 258
    Bedmar, Isidor Jean Joseph Dominique de la Cueva de Benavide, Count of, 242, 244
    Behn, Aphra, 18
    Beinheim, Major General, 275
    Belcastel, Pierre de, 253
    Belfort, 249
    Bellew, Colonel Thomas, 19, 24
    Bence-Jones, Mark and Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, 27
    Benson, William, 22
    Bentinck, Anne ( née Villiers), 162
    Bentinck, William see Portland, 1st Earl of
    Bergen op Zoom, 242, 246
    Bergeyck, Jean de Brouchoven, comte de, 371
    Bergh, Johan van den, 371, 438–9
    Berkeley House, Piccadilly, 180–1
    Berkeley, Colonel John see Fitzharding, Baron
    Berkeley, George, 1st Earl of, 180
    Berkeley, Rear Admiral John, 3rd Baron, 183
    Berlin:
    Marlborough visits, 305, 329
    Berry, Sir John, 97–9
    Berwick, Anne, Duchess of ( née Bulkeley), 165
    Berwick, James FitzJames, Duke of:
    status, 3
    memoirs, 8
    dukedom, 27
    defeats Galway at Almanza, 28, 209, 356
    birth, 48
    suppresses Protestant insurrection, 130
    replaces Oxford as colonel of Blues, 138
    and William’s invasion of England, 148, 150
    and Jacobite rebellion (1715), 153
    marriage, 165
    secret visits to England, 186–7
    on Schomberg’s garter at Boyne, 195
    captures Kerr, 215
    on Marlborough’s defeat of Boufflers, 230
    requests pass for master of horse, 248
    command in Spain, 350, 358
    sends troops to Italy and Toulon, 358–9
    command in Spanish Netherlands (1708), 370, 372, 379, 393
    Louis XIV suggests sending support to Elector of Bavaria, 370
    and Allied siege of Lille, 395–6
    Marlborough maintains relations with, 467
    Bethkany,