Chapter IV: Financial Exhaustion of England 381
Kidnapping of Recruits 382
The Troops unpaid 383
The cry of No Standing Army 384
Harley's Motion for Reduction of the Army carried 384
Abuse heaped on the Army in consequence 385
Distress of the Army through withholding of its Arrears 385
William tries to keep a larger Army 386
The English Establishment reduced to Seven Thousand Men 386
Distribution of the Army so reduced 388
Renewed outcry of Soldiers for their Arrears 389
Helplessness of the Commons 390
The outcry increased owing to the Resumption of Crown Grants 391
Renewal of the War; King William 392
BOOK VI
CHAPTER I
The Spanish Succession 397
Increase of the Army; Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Foot 398
Marlborough sails for the Low Countries 399
Twenty-eighth to Thirty-second Foot, Thirty-seventh and
Thirty-ninth Foot raised 400
Opening of the Campaign of 1702 401
Marlborough takes the Field 402
His Campaign ruined by the Dutch Deputies 403
The Centre of Operations tends towards the Danube 406
The Descent on Cadiz 407
Marlborough's Escape from Capture in Flanders 407
He is raised to a Dukedom 408
Scandals in the Paymaster's Office 408
The Office reconstituted 410
CHAPTER II
Increase of the Army 411
The French Plan of Campaign 412
Marlborough's Plan 413
A Second Campaign ruined by the Dutch 414
French Successes on the Rhine and Danube 415
Eugene of Savoy 416
Marlborough's Plan for a March to the Danube 416
Disposition of the French 418
The March to the Danube 419
Action of the Schellenberg 423
Pursuit of the defeated Bavarians to Friedberg 427
CHAPTER III
Tallard marches for the Danube 429
Eugene follows parallel with him 429
Junction of Marlborough and Eugene 431
Battle of Blenheim 432
The close of the Campaign 444
Effect of the Victory in England 445
CHAPTER IV
A British Army sent to the Peninsula 447
Siege of Gibraltar 448
The Fortress relieved by Admiral Leake 450
Increase of the Army; the Thirty-eighth Foot 450
Marlborough's design to carry the War into Lorraine 451
It is foiled by the supineness of the Allies 451
He returns to Flanders 451
The Lines of the Geete 451
The Campaign again ruined by the Dutch 456
Peterborough in Catalonia 459
Capture of Barcelona 460
Catalonia and Valencia gained 463
CHAPTER V
Increase of the Army 464
Marlborough's Plan for a Campaign in Italy 465
He reluctantly abandons it for Flanders 465
The French move from the Dyle to meet him 466
Battle of Ramillies 466
The pursuit after the Action 472
Fruits of the Victory 473
Ostend and Menin taken 474
Close of the Campaign 475
CHAPTER VI
The War in the Peninsula 476
Peterborough in San Mateo 477
His Capture of Nules 479
His Relief of Valencia 481
Galway's Advance from Portugal to Madrid 482
He is cut off from his base and marches for Valencia 483
Peninsula Campaign of 1707 484
Galway defeated at Almanza 485
Peterborough leaves the Peninsula 488
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