Marlborough

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Authors: Richard Holmes
75–6
    presents Marlborough to Charles II, 77
    commands British brigade in France, 79
    Marlborough reports to on casualties, 81
    serves in Charles II’s council, 91
    defeats Covenanters at Bothwell Bridge, 94
    exiled in Holland, 94
    rebellion, 96, 110–18, 120, 132
    captured and executed, 126
    Mons, 173, 421–3, 434
    Montagu, Charles see Halifax, 1st Earl of
    Montagu, John Montagu, 2nd Duke of ( earlier Viscount Monthermer):
    marries Mary Churchill, 303
    as chief mourner at Marlborough’s funeral, 475
    complains of Mary’s adultery, 476
    Montagu, Mary, Duchess of ( née Churchill; earlier Viscountess Monthermer):
    rebukes Lady Hervey, 23
    birth, 102
    marriage, 303
    Anne disparages, 448
    attends Anne’s funeral, 470
    Sarah quarrels with, 474, 476
    and dying father, 475
    Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 475
    Montagu, Ralph, 1st Duke of ( earlier Earl), 303
    Monthermer see Montagu, Duke of and Duchess of
    Montreuil, 453
    Montrose, James Graham, 3rd Marquis of, 99
    Moore, General Sir John, 185
    Mordaunt, John, Viscount, 207, 272, 280, 344
    Mortimer, Captain Edward, 20
    Moselle, river and valley, 255–6, 258, 260, 308, 312, 330
    Mountcashel, Justin McCarthy, Viscount, 166
    Mowdie, Elizabeth, 87
    Muddey, Private John, 267
    Mulgrave, John Sheffield, 3rd Earl of see Buckingham, 1st Duke of
    Mundelsheim, 266
    Munnocks, Lieutenant Philip, 114
    Murray, Sir George, 6
    Murray, Major General Robert, 344, 371–2, 377
    Nairne, David, 184
    Namier, Sir Lewis, 34
    Namur, 181, 210, 378, 454
    Nangis, Louis Armand de Brichanteau, marquis de, 390
    Nantes, Edict of:
    revoked (1685), 129
    Narborough, Rear Admiral Sir John, 68–9
    Naseby, battle of (1645), 40
    Nassau-Dietz, Johan Willem Friso, Prince of Orange and Friesland, 388, 426, 429–30, 453
    national debt, 441
    Natzmer, Major General Dubislaw von, 287, 376, 382, 385, 387–8, 407
    navy:
    in War of League of Augsburg, 182
    Ne Plus Ultra line, 453–4, 457
    Nebel, river, 281, 283, 287, 291, 293, 478–9
    Neerhespen, 312, 3144
    Neuberg, 278
    New Model Army, 48–9
    Newburgh, Charles Livingstone, 2nd Earl of, 117
    Newcastle, John Holles, Duke of, 298, 304
    Newfoundland, 459
    Newton, Sir Isaac, 14, 189
    Newton Montacute (estate), Wootton Glanville, Dorset, 39
    Nijmegen, 224, 227
    Peace of (1678), 89–91
    Nine Years War (1684–97), 250
    Nithsdale, William Maxwell, 5th Earl of, 178
    Normanby, Marquess of see Buckingham, 1st Duke of
    North America:
    French threat in, 135
    French concessions under Treaty of Utrecht, 459
    Northampton, George Compton, 4th Earl of, 140, 154
    Northumberland, George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of, 62
    Norton St Philip, 118
    Nottingham, Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of:
    and Trelawney’s influence, 33
    and Mary’s recall of Prince George from campaign, 164
    favours campaign in Ireland, 169
    and William’s disgrace of Marlborough, 174
    and Marlborough’s imprisonment in Tower, 179
    and loss of Smyrna convoy, 182
    and troops for Portugal, 208
    and Marlborough’s Low Countries campaign, 229
    Noyelle-en-Falais, General Jacques Louis, comte de, 312
    Noyes, Chaplain Samuel, 8, 275, 294
    Oates, Titus, 91, 178
    O’Brien, Charles, 5th Viscount, 99
    Occasional Conformity Bills:
    (1703), 239, 248
    tacked (1704), 299
    Oerderen, 245
    O’Farrell, Brigadier:
    surrenders Diest, 75
    Offenburg, 259
    Oglethorpe, Lady Eleanor, 326
    Oglethorpe, James Edward, 119
    Oglethorpe, Lewis, 119
    Oglethorpe, Colonel Theophilus, 116, 117, 119, 122, 123, 125–7, 158
    Onslow, Sir Richard, 148
    Opdam, General see Wassenaer en Obdam, General Jacob
    Orange, Prince of see Nassau-Dietz, Johan Willem Friso
    Orford, Edward Russell, Earl of:
    in Whig junto, 35n; invites William to England, 137
    and Marlborough’s resentment at William’s favouring foreign officers, 174
    friendship with Marlborough, 175
    defeats Tourville at St Vaast-la-Hougue, 179
    in attack on Brest, 183–4
    accused of complicity in Jacobite plot, 187
    as head of Admiralty, 409, 414, 437–8
    forbidden to engage French, 462
    Orkney, Elizabeth

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