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Hace 4 días · General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, KG, PC (26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722 O.S. [a]) was an English soldier and statesman. From a gentry family, he served as a page at the court of the House of Stuart under James, Duke of York, through the ...
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Hace 4 días · La institución de la esclavitud empañó los enormes beneficios que forjaron la fortuna de los condes de Harewood, comerciantes de azúcar. La construcción de su finca homónima de 400 hectáreas en el norte de Inglaterra en 1751, con mobiliario suministrado por Thomas Chippendale y paisajismo de Capability Brown, se financió con el trabajo de personas esclavizadas.
Hace 4 días · The quarter-manor was bought in 1718 by Benjamin Swete (d. 1744), former army paymaster under John Churchill, duke of Marlborough. (fn. 60) Swete devised it to Anne, daughter of his cousin Francis Fulford; (fn. 61) it presumably formed part of the former Swete estate bought in 1771 by Thomas Walker, town clerk of Oxford and agent to ...
Hace 4 días · El duque de Westminster, que contará en su enlace en Chester con la presencia del príncipe Guillermo, es en la actualidad presidente de Grosvenor Group, un poderoso grupo inmobiliario y de...
Hace 5 días · Given that the shelves of those historians who specialise in the origins of the Second World War are figuratively groaning under the weight of works covering the topic of appeasement, it may come as a surprise to some when reading the preface to Appeasing Hitler that “while books on the Second World War have multiplied over the past 20 years, the build-up and causes of that catastrophe have ...
Hace 1 día · 1568 — Sob a liderança de Luís de Nassau, a Holanda declara a sua independência da Espanha. 1618 — A Segunda defenestração de Praga precipita a Guerra dos Trinta Anos. 1706 — Guerra da Sucessão Espanhola: John Churchill, 1.º Duque de Marlborough, derrota um exército francês sob o comando do marechal François de Neufville, duque de Villeroy na Batalha de Ramillies.
Hace 1 día · Churchill was born on 30 November 1874 at his family's ancestral home, Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. On his father's side, he was a member of the British aristocracy as a descendant of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough.
