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