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Duke of Marlborough: John Churchill
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The Right Hon. John Winston Spencer Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, died in London. England, yesterday, of angina pectoris, in the sixty-second year of his age. His death was very sudden and wholly unanticipated by his friends. He was slightly indisposed on Wednesday, but dined with his family at the usual hour, and retired in apparently good health. Yesterday morning he was found dead on the floor of his chamber, his features being calm, as though he had just fallen asleep. He will be succeeded in the dukedom by his eldest son, the Marquis of Blandford.
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When James, Duke of York, became King of England in 1685, he elevated Churchill to the peerage as Baron Sandridge. Within a few months, the new king faced a series of rebellions. Churchill was appointed head of the loyalist troops. When William of Orange invaded England in 1688, James II fled to France, rather than defend his position. By that time Churchill had already deserted to the Orange cause, and been named Earl of Marlborough as a reward.
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SIR CHRISTOPHER WRENwas commissioned to build Marlborough House for the first Duke of Marlborough, but it is to Duchess Sarah, that the building owes its existence. The idea of a town house was hers and it was she who secured a lease of the site from Queen Anne and chose Sir Christopher Wren as her architect in preference to Sir John Vanbrugh, who was then building Blenheim Palace for the Duke. When she fell out with Wren and dispensed with his services, she herself supervised the completion of the house. It was... the London house of her long widowhood and it was here that she died in 1744.
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George Charles Spencer CHURCHILL (8th Duke of Marlborough) was born in 1844 in England. He died on 9 Nov 1892 in Blenheim. He was buried in Blandon Churchyard. He was ... known as George, Marquis of Blandford. Parents: John Winston Spencer CHURCHILL (7th Duke of Marlborough) and Lady Frances Anne Emily VANE (Duchess of Marlborough).
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Combining one of history’s most audacious strategic manoeuvres with perhaps the greatest military victory ever won by a British commander, the Blenheim campaign is rightly considered the pinnacle of the career of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough. On 13 August 1704, Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy faced a Franco-Bavarian army threatening to knock Austria out of the War of the Spanish Succession. In a hard-fought battle Marlborough won a resounding victory, capturing Marshal Tallard and over 14,000 men. In this book John Tincey describes how Marlborough’s victory crushed his enemies, shattered the myth of French invincibility and laid the foundations for two centuries of British world dominance.
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John Winston Spencer CHURCHILL (7th Duke of Marlborough) was born on 2 Jun 1822 in Garboldisham Hall, Norfolk. He died on 5 Jul 1883 in Blenheim Palace. He was buried on 10 Jul 1883 in Chapel at Blenheim. John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, Knight of the
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