Marlborough took Bonn; giving command of Upper

Rhine.



1704    Battle of Donauwörth. Eugene joined Marlborough.


(August 4). Gibraltar taken by Sir George Rooke,

Sir George Byng, and Sir Cloudesley Shovel.


(August 13). Blenheim. Marlborough and Eugene

defeated French and Bavarians under Marshals

Tallard and Marsin. Vienna saved: Marlborough

received Woodstock Manor as a reward.


Act of Security passed by Scotch Parliament.



1705    Marlborough opposed by Allies, and prevented from

marching into France.


Barcelona taken by Lord Peterborough; the Catalan

district of Spain won for the Archduke Charles.


Coalition between the more moderate Tories and the

Whigs.



1706    Ramillies (May 12), won by Marlborough against Villeroy:


Allies occupied Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Bruges,

Ostend, a line of fortresses cutting off French from

Holland.


Turin besieged by French: siege raised by Prince

Eugene.



1707    Capitulation of Milan signed by Louis: Milan and

Naples secured to Archduke Charles.


Minorca captured by General Stanhope.


Battle of Almanza (Spain): English under Lord

Galway surrendered.


Ghent and Bruges retaken by French.


Whig resolution not to make peace so long as a Bourbon

ruled in Spain.


Union with Scotland (October 23): Scotland to send

sixteen peers and forty-five Commoners to United

Houses of Parliament: Law and Church of Scotland

left untouched: privileges of trade and coinage to

be the same for both countries.



1708    Harley and St. John dismissed: Whigs came into power

(July 11). Oudenarde: Marlborough and Eugene

defeated Vendôme: Lille secured. Bruges and

Ghent retaken by Allies.


Attempted landing in Scotland by the Pretender

prevented.



1709    Peace Conference at the Hague. Louis declined to

remove his grandson from the throne of Spain.


(September 11). Malplaquet: Marlborough and Eugene

defeated Villars.


Mons taken by the Allies.


Quarrel between the Queen and the Duchess of Marlborough.


Dr. Sacheverell's sermons.



1710    Peace proposals by Louis at Gertruydenberg rejected.


Dr. Sacheverell sentenced: Tory party greatly helped

thereby.


Battle of Almenara (Spain): French and Spanish

defeated by Stanhope.


Battle of Saragossa: French and Spanish defeated by

Stanhope.


Battle of Brihuega: Stanhope beaten by Vendôme.


Battle of Villa Viciosa: General Staremberg defeated

by Vendôme: Spain secured for Philip V.


Bouchain taken by Marlborough.


Fall of the Whigs.


General Post Office established.


St. Paul's Cathedral finished.



1711    All Whigs dismissed from office, and Tories alone to

form the Ministry, thus establishing the principle

that the members of the Cabinet should all be of

the same political party.


Duchess of Marlborough supplanted by Mrs. Masham.


Death of the Emperor Joseph, and accession of Archduke

Charles: no farther need now to continue

the war.


Tories determined to put an end to the war.



1712    Twelve new Tory peers created to destroy the Whig

majority which was in favour of continuing the war.


Marlborough deprived of his command: Ormonde to

succeed him.


Peace Conference at Utrecht.


Act against Occasional Conformity.



1713    (March 3). Treaty of Utrecht: Spain to Philip:

Minorca and Gibraltar to England: Spanish lands

in Italy and Netherlands to Emperor Charles: Sicily

to Savoy. Prussia made a kingdom.



1714    Quarrel between Harley and Bolingbroke: Harley

dismissed.


Schism Act: schoolmasters to belong to the Church of

England.


Bolingbroke's free trade proposals defeated by the Whigs.


Death of Electress Sophia: George of Hanover now heir

to the British throne.


(July 30). Death of Anne: Accession of George I.




Oxford: HORACE HART, Printer to the University




Herbert Strang's Stories for Boys

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