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Marlborough, Sarah Jennings Churchill, Duchess, 1660-1744. --- Great Britain - History - Anne, 1702-1714 - Biography. --- Great Britain - Politics and government - 1660-1714. --- Great Britain - Politics and government - 1714-1760. --- Great Britain - Court and courtiers - Biography. --- Favorites, Royal - Great Britain - Biography.
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Politicians --- Biography --- Buckingham, George Villiers, --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- Court and courtiers --- -Statesmen --- Buckingham, George Villiers Duke of --- -Biography. --- -Politicians --- -Biography --- Buckingham, George Villiers --- Baron Whaddon --- Viscount Villiers --- Biography. --- Villiers, George --- Politicians - Great Britain - Biography --- Buckingham, George Villiers, - Duke of, - 1592-1628 --- Great Britain - Politics and government - 1603-1649 --- Great Britain - Court and courtiers - Biography
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John Churchill, first duke of Marlborough, was one of the two greatest military commanders in British history and the first subject to achieve and exercise a dominating influence in European affairs. With Wellington and Nelson he is the nearest that Britain has had to a national hero, yet today his reputation has faded. Few, apart from specialists in military history, have any appreciation of the extent of his achievements. This new study sets Marlborough's career in its contexts: the royal Court of the last Stuart monarchs, the desperate struggle against French attempts to establish hegemony in western Europe and the bitter political strife in Britain between the Whig and the Tory parties. It examines the opportunistic ways in which John Churchill rose from obscurity and poverty to wealth and greatness, his decisive role in the Revolution of 1688 and the circumstances and reasons for his dramatic fall.
Statesmen --- Generals --- Biography --- Marlborough, John Churchill, --- Great Britain --- History --- Court and courtiers --- Arts and Humanities --- Statesmen - Great Britain - Biography --- Generals - Great Britain - Biography --- Marlborough, John Churchill, - Duke of, - 1650-1722 --- Great Britain - History - Stuarts, 1603-1714 - Biography --- Great Britain - Court and courtiers - Biography --- Churchill, John, --- Churchill, --- Malborough, --- Marlborough,
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"Since the sixteenth century we have been fascinated by Henry VIII and the man who stood beside him, guiding him, enriching him, and enduring the king's insatiable appetites and violent outbursts until Henry ordered his beheading in July 1540. After a decade of sleuthing in the royal archives, Diarmaid MacCulloch has emerged with a tantalizing new understanding of Henry's mercurial chief minister, the inscrutable and utterly compelling Thomas Cromwell. History has not been kind to the son of a Putney brewer who became the architect of England's split with Rome. Where past biographies portrayed him as a scheming operator with blood on his hands, Hilary Mantel reimagined him as a far more sympathetic figure buffered by the whims of his master. So which was he--the villain of history or the victim of her creation? MacCulloch sifted through letters and court records for answers and found Cromwell's fingerprints on some of the most transformative decisions of Henry's turbulent reign. But he also found Cromwell the man, an administrative genius, rescuing him from myth and slander. The real Cromwell was a deeply loving father who took his biggest risks to secure the future of his son, Gregory. He was also a man of faith and a quiet revolutionary. In the end, he could not appease or control the man whose humors were so violent and unpredictable. But he made his mark on England, setting her on the path to religious awakening and indelibly transforming the system of government of the English-speaking world"--Publisher description.
Statesmen --- Cromwell, Thomas, --- Great Britain --- History --- Politics and government --- Court and courtiers --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY --- HISTORY --- Statesmen. --- Politics and government. --- Courts and courtiers. --- Historical. --- Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) --- 1509-1547. --- Great Britain. --- England. --- Courts and courtiers --- History. --- Statesmen - England - Biography --- Cromwell, Thomas, - Earl of Essex, - 1485?-1540 --- Great Britain - History - Henry VIII, 1509-1547 --- Great Britain - Politics and government - 1509-1547 --- Great Britain - Court and courtiers - Biography
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