![MARLBOROUGH, John Churchill, 1st Duke (1650-1722). Autograph letter signed ('Marlborough') to [Lord Coningsby], 'Camp at Soigniel', 25 August 1707, 2 pages, 4to, integral blank leaf (some yellowing to inner margin and blank leaf).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2001/CSK/2001_CSK_09280_0382_000(040026).jpg?w=1)
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MARLBOROUGH, John Churchill, 1st Duke (1650-1722). Autograph letter signed ('Marlborough') to [Lord Coningsby], 'Camp at Soigniel', 25 August 1707, 2 pages, 4to, integral blank leaf (some yellowing to inner margin and blank leaf).
Marlborough refers in veiled terms to his correspondent's having 'overcome the difficultys you were so apprehensive of, at the beginning of the Sessions', with the wish that the Queen's 'many disappointments abroad' may not be exacerbated at home. His own situation is difficult: 'you will know by what means the Enemy was enabled to get together such a body of troupes in the beginning of the Campagne as to break our measures, Wee have lately been no less disappointed by the extraordinary bad weather, so that our hearts are at present wholy set upon our Enterprize against Thoulon, which we have good reason to hope may succeed'.
Although he was hampered by bad weather and by some inferiority of numbers, the comparative inactivity of Marlborough's campaigns of 1707 has been viewed as puzzling. His expedition against Toulon ultimately failed because of a lack of support from the imperial armies, and he returned to England on 7 November to involve himself in the party struggles to which the first part of the letter refers.
Marlborough refers in veiled terms to his correspondent's having 'overcome the difficultys you were so apprehensive of, at the beginning of the Sessions', with the wish that the Queen's 'many disappointments abroad' may not be exacerbated at home. His own situation is difficult: 'you will know by what means the Enemy was enabled to get together such a body of troupes in the beginning of the Campagne as to break our measures, Wee have lately been no less disappointed by the extraordinary bad weather, so that our hearts are at present wholy set upon our Enterprize against Thoulon, which we have good reason to hope may succeed'.
Although he was hampered by bad weather and by some inferiority of numbers, the comparative inactivity of Marlborough's campaigns of 1707 has been viewed as puzzling. His expedition against Toulon ultimately failed because of a lack of support from the imperial armies, and he returned to England on 7 November to involve himself in the party struggles to which the first part of the letter refers.
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