Word: blenheim
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...great day in 1702 when the newly proclaimed Queen made her first grand entrance into Parliament, she did so with Sarah Churchill as her attendant and John Churchill marching in front, carrying the great sword of state. And after Churchill's victory over the French at Blenheim, everyone knew the lines...
...Blenheim's tower shall triumph...
...Sarah's grandeur reached perfection in the years that followed her fall from favor. "That B.B.B.B. old B.* the Duchess of Marlbh" (as the architect of Blenheim Palace, Sir John Vanbrugh, described her) outlived not only her husband, but Anne, Anne's successor (George I) and most of her own children. Widowed at 62, she rejected offers of marriage from an earl and from the proud Duke of Somerset. Marlborough had loved her passionately (tradition has it that on coming home from the wars, he would "pleasure" her even before he had taken off his boots), and Sarah...
...George, fourth duke, exhibited the family's growing "relaxation of fiber," and "withdrew from the struggle of life into seclusion and silence." He spent lavishly on the family seat, Blenheim Palace, beautifying the grounds but so cluttering up the interior that Horace Walpole said: "It looks like the palace of an auctioneer who has been chosen King of Poland...
...when he won his first grand victory, the Battle of Blenheim (1704). By that age "Wellington had won his last and Napoleon was dead," notes Author Rowse. To the warfare of his time-a static business of formal sieges, sedate marches and textbook battles-Churchill brought a degree of speed, flexibility and dash that horrified friends and foes. After Blenheim, he fought nine more campaigns, won nine more major battles...