During the latter part of the seventeenth and the first part of the eighteenth century England was the theater of stirring events. War was sounding its clarion notes through the land. Marlborough had achieved a series of brilliant victories on the Continent, which had filled and fired the national heart with the spirit of military glory.
During the latter part of the seventeenth and the first part of the eighteenth century England was the theater of stirring events. War was sounding it...
