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Marlborough The Portrait Of A Conqueror
Author: Donald Barr Chidsey

The Portrait of a C on l uem Tke John 1 ay C m p any New York COPYRIGHT, 1929, BY DONALD BARK CHIDSEY PRINTED IN THB XL 8, A POR THE JOHN DAY COMPANY, INC BY J. J. LITTLE AND IVES COMPANY, NEW YORK BOUND BY J, P TA LEY CO., X. ONO ISLAND CITY, NW YORK, MARLBOROUG1 1 From a Minting by Kucller. EugruveJ by . Pav. sr V To MY MOTHER ABOUT THE AUTHOR... more » DONALD BARR CHIDSEY was bora May 14, 1902, in Elizabeth, New Jer sey, and was educated in the public schools there. Since 1920 he has been in newspaper work, in a variety of capacities, and in many parts of the United States New York City, Elizabeth and Newark, New Jersey, Den ver, Colorado, and Jacksonville, Florida and in Paris, France. He is the author of Bonnie Prince Charlie. His work has also appeared in the old Smart Set Magazine, the American Legion Monthly, the New York Sunday Times Magazine -, The New Yorker , Judge and Life. INTRODUCTION HE did everything well. He was an admirable lover, and later a faultless husband he was a clever politician, a great diplomat in an age when com petition made traitors skillful, he was one of the best he was an expert swordsman, a graceful equestrian, a crack tennis player, an excellent dancer. , . . But genius may be defined as not just the ability to do a thing better than most men can do it which is mere talent , but as the ability to do things other men cannot do at all, things not previously considered possible. Marl boroughs talents were numerous but his genius was confined to the military he was one of the greatest generals of all history perhaps he was the greatest. It is strange that he does not loom larger in the popular imagination. For he was a fascinating man who was married to a fascinating woman, and who led a life packed with excitement. He was also a good business man. In this it is easy to com pare him with our own American heroes, the self-made millionaires for he started with nothing and died the richest man in three kingdoms, and to the end he preserved the first coins he had ever earned, anticipating a present-day tradition. He had good manners. So many great men were brusque, sharp persons that it is pleasant to record the life of one who never raised his voice, never lost his temper, and was always however hypocritical it may have been graciousness per sonified. Yii Introduction So different he was in appearance, too, from what you might have expected. Here was a man who laid waste all Bavaria, commander-in-chief of half the armies and navies of Europe for a decade of bitter war a man at the mention of whose name thousands of peasants would tremble, while nursemaids invoked him as a bogey with which to frighten their charges into good behavior. Here he was tall, hand some, mild-mannered, with innocent baby blue eyes and a girlish voice the perfect gentleman, patient, kindly, a lover of animals, a devoted husband and father, He could endure hunger, cold, shipwreck, slaughter, im prisonment, disgrace, exile, the fevered encomiums of em perors and great kings without lessening or broadening his quiet smile. He could fight all day in a pouring rain, sword in hand at the head of his regiment fight savagely, relent lessly, against a savage and relentless foe. Yet when the fight ing was finished he could rival the daintiest dandy in a dandies paradise. At the court of Charles the Second, in which he was raised, adultery was taken for granted, morning sobriety was almost unknown and great ministers like Shaftesbury signed state papers without stirring from the basset table. Yet the Great Duke didnt gamble he didnt drink and he was a faithful husband who after more than, a quarter century of marriage literally worshiped his wife. And that wife What more exquisite contrast does the history of matrimony offer There are students who believe that Sarah Jennings was the real genius of the two, and that the subject of this-book would have been little enough ex cept for her. It is a guess at best though a fascinating one...

ISBN-13: 9781406733853
ISBN-10: 1406733857
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 340
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Publisher: Barman Press
Book Type: Paperback
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