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Hace 3 días · Knight of the Order of the Garter. 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 ...
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Hace 4 días · Blenheim Palace, residence near Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, built (1705–24) by the English Parliament as a national gift to John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough. It was designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and is regarded as the finest example of truly Baroque architecture in Great Britain.
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Hace 2 días · Marlborough Drift. We have dwelt herein on falsehoods known as Churchillian Drift. File this one under Marlborough Drift. Churchill was nevertheless under no illusions about the faults of his ancestor. “What a downy bird he was,” he wrote his wife in 1935…. He will always stoop to conquer.
Hace 2 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 5 días · The king or his tenant presented regularly, except in 1621 when John Whitton of Hensington had received a grant of the next presentation from the Prince of Wales, later Charles I. The advowson passed with the manor to John Churchill, duke of Marlborough, in 1705; the dukes presented thereafter, except in 1840 when John Benbow presented after a ...
Hace 6 días · When war broke out he was placed as the Head of the Admiralty once again, and soon became the head of state. I believe that Churchill’s many life experiences allowed him to excel as both a statesman and a military leader. His patriotism and oratory skills allowed him to stoke the flames of resistance in the British people, keeping their ...
Hace 3 días · The Hundred Rolls of 1279–80, (review no. 691) In March 1279 King Edward I commissioned a great inquiry into landholding in England. The surviving returns were arranged by hundred, hence their name ‘the Hundred Rolls’, and give a picture of rural society which, in its level of detail, goes far beyond that found in Domesday Book.
