1-624-835 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, English soldier, (c1850). Marlborough commanded the British and allied forces in the War of the Spanish Succession early in the 18th century. He won a series of victories over the French including Blenheim (1704), Ramillies (1706), Oudenaarde (1708) and Malplaquet (1709). A grateful Queen Anne rewarded Marlborough with a palace at government expense in 1704 after his victory at Blenheim, which the palace was subsequently named after. Taken from the book Old England's Worthies. (London, c1850).