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Marlborough Arrives Ghent to Lead Campaign Plans
Long dispatches report Marlborough reaching Ghent to marshal British forces for the campaign. French designs falter as European powers coordinate moves. Saxony and Hanover respond to financial and military pressures amid allied troop movements. Crowns’ armies in Spain and Savoy are enumerated. Londons letters confirm reviews and reinforcements as custody of officers and privateers circulate.
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Ryswick
Duke of M Marlborough
Ghent
Hague
Duke of Marlborough
Sas van Ghent
Audenarde
Saxony
King Augustus
Hanover
Augustus
Eugene
Catalonia
Spain
Duke of Savoy
Whitehall
Atay
Duke of Burgundy
Paris
Rhine
Dauphine
Monsieur d’Auverquerque
France
Duke of Noailles
Gironne
Duke of Orleans
Tarragona
Tortosa
London
Thomas Smith
Anthony May Alias Smith
Edward Horwood
Marquis of Huntley
Erroll
Marshal
Seaforth
Nithsdale