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Duke of Marlborough: Prince Louis
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In November 1700 Charles II, King of Spain, died, leaving his throne in his will to the Duke of Anjou, grandson to Louis XIV, King of France. Louis XIV permitted his grandson to accept the throne of Spain, thereby plunging Europe into a general war; the main antagonists being France and the Austrian Habsburg Empire, whose emperor would not stand by and see the Bourbons absorb Spain. The Low Countries, comprising Flanders and Holland, as in so many wars, became one of the main theatres of military operations.
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It had been agreed that the Duke of Marlborough should cover the siege of Ingolstadt whilst it was carried on by Prince Louis of Baden. But as the Duke's army was much inferior to that of the enemy, he resolved to call in all his out-parties, and ... to look for a position stronger and more convenient than that which he now occupied. For this end he went out early in the morning of the 7th, accompanied by Prince Eugene and several other general officers, as well to examine the avenues to the camp as to view the ground betwixt it and the river Lech. His Grace did not return until very late at night, when he gave orders for the army to march the next morning nearer to Nieuburg. Accordingly it marched on the 8th to Sandizel, whence it advanced the next day (9th) to Exheim; and on this day Prince Louis took away twenty-three battalions and thirty-one squadrons to form the siege of Ingolstadt.
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In 1685 he crushed the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion against James II. However, his loyalty to James did not survive the events of 1688. He belatedly joined William, Prince of Orange, at the end of November 1688 after William had landed on English soil. Churchill had been in charge of the king's army at Salisbury before his defection.
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The Duke of York was not particularly supportive of Hbc. His lack of enthusiasm for the Company stemmed in part from his desire to stay on good terms with Louis XIV of France as well as the conflict of interest he felt from his ownership of competing beaver preserves in the upper reaches of the Hudson River Valley.
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The Duke has always been reputed for its food, offered at either its formal dining room or more casually at the lounge. A weatherproofed verandah along the beach allows patrons to dine or drink all year by the sea.
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In Scotland royal dukedoms were first conferred in 1398, the Dukes of Rothesay and Albany. Today the Prince of Wales is ... the Duke of Rothesay. The (non-royal) Premier Duke of Scotland is the Duke of Hamilton, created 1643, and the Irish one is Leinster, 1766.
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