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1702 Result of the first campaign

French cut off from lower valley of the Rhine.
Venloo and other towns taken

Capture of Bonn on the Rhine and Huy on the

Meuse .

SECTION II.-Campaigns in Germany and elsewhere.

(a) On the Upper Rhine.

Landau taken by Prince Lewis of Baden

(b) In North Italy

Victory of Cremona won by Prince Eugene, and

passes into Tyrol secured

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(a) Failure of attack on Cadiz.

(b) Treasure ships taken by the English at Vigo

1704 (c) Earl of Galway commands the allies against Duke
of Berwick

(d) Capture of Gibraltar by Sir George Rooke

CHAPTER VI.

RISING IN THE CEVENNES.

The strength of the Huguenots in the valleys of the

Loire and the lower Rhone

The Camisards ('Wearers of the white frock')

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1703 Rise under Jean Cavalier and others

1684 The Dragonnades urged on by Madame de Main-

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Marlborough's plan-to strike across the Rhine, meet

Eugene, and prevent the junction of the French

armies in Bavaria.

Battle of Blenheim

The results of the victory.

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64

The power of Lewis XIV. broken and prestige of

French arms destroyed.

Fall of Brussels, Antwerp, Menin, Dendermonde 77-78

1706 Madrid entered by Earl of Galway

Success of the allies checked by the chivalrous loyalty

of the Spaniards to Philip

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Neutrality of Charles XII. of Sweden secured by

Marlborough

1707 March The allies defeated by Duke of Berwick at

Almanza

Archduke Charles reduced to single province of

Catalonia

Naples secured by the Emperor

Failure of attack on Toulon

Defeat of allies on Rhine by Villars

Sir Cloudesley Shovel lost off the Scilly Islands

CHAPTER XI.

LATER FIGHTING IN THE LOW COUNTRIES.

SECTION I.-Oudenarde and Lille.

Brabant inclining to French

Siege of Oudenarde.

Eugene joins Marlborough

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SECTION I.-The three Years that followed Almanza.

The development of parties and their influences

Opposite views of Whigs and Tories on the Revo-

lution and religious toleration

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The queen inclines to the Tories as the Church
party

Her first Ministry Tory in the main .

Godolphin and Marlborough gradually go over to
the Whig camp

1703-1704 Occasional Conformity Bill brought forward

three times-its defeat in the Lords

Lord Somers the most eminent Lord

Sunderland the most violent of the Whig Junto

Abigail Hill comes on the scene

She supplants the Duchess of Marlborough

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1708 Yet the Ministry is made more Whig by the enforced
resignation of Harley and St. John
Steady growth of Cabinet government
Life-command refused to Marlborough

1710 Dr. Sacheverell's sermon

General election-Tory majority

Dismissal of Whigs.

Occasional Conformity Bill passed

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CHAPTER XIV.

FAG-END OF THE WAR.

The two Tory chiefs-Harley, Earl of Oxford, and

St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke

English troops separated from the allies
Eugene still commands the road to Paris'

1712 July 24. Victory of French at Denain