Marlborough's note to his wife Sarah at the end of the Battle of Blenheim

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Marlborough's note to his wife Sarah at the end of the Battle of Blenheim (1704)
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After victory at the Battle of Blenheim was assured John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough wrote this brief note on the back of a tavern receipt to his wife Sarah

Sources

  • Coxe, William (1818). Memoirs of John, duke of Marlborough, with his original correspondence. p. 305. 
  • Plaidy, Jean (2012). The Queen's Favourites: (The Stuarts). Random House. p. 67. ISBN 978-1-4481-5037-3. 
2117253Marlborough's note to his wife Sarah at the end of the Battle of Blenheim1704John Churchill

August 13, 1704

I have not time to say more, but to beg you will give my duty to the Queen and let her know her Army has had a glorious victory. Monsieur Talland and two other Generals are in my coach and I am following the rest: the bearer, my aide-de-camp, Colonel Parke, will give her an account of what has passed. I shall do it in a day or two, by another more at large.

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