A History of the British Army, Vol. 1 First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War

CHAPTER I

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The Spanish Succession 397

Increase of the Army; Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Foot 398

Marlborough sails for the Low Countries 399

Twenty-eighth to Thirty-second Foot, Thirty-seventh and Thirty-ninth Foot raised 400

Opening of the Campaign of 1702 401

Marlborough takes the Field 402

His Campaign ruined by the Dutch Deputies 403

The Centre of Operations tends towards the Danube 406

The Descent on Cadiz 407

Marlborough's Escape from Capture in Flanders 407

He is raised to a Dukedom 408

Scandals in the Paymaster's Office 408

The Office reconstituted 410