Download or read book The Life of John Duke of Marlborough Prince of the Roman Empire Vol 1 written by Thomas Lediard and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of John, Duke of Marlborough, Prince of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1: Illustrated With Maps, Plans of Battles, Sieges, and Medals, and a Great Number of Original Letters and Papers TO all this, I have added as many Medals as I have been able to come at, which have been rucle on Occa on of the great Events of this Glorious Life, 'as well engraven as explain'd: And that nothing might be wanting to give the Reader a perfet't' Idea of the great Ablions that are here recorded, he will find exaef't' Plans of the principal Battles and Sieges. Tth re/pee't to Medals, it may not be ami/i to obfierve, that tho' the Virtuofi, in this Way, generally fit a Value on fuch Monuments, in Proportion to their Antiguity; yet, it is to be confidered, that what is now Modem, will be Antique fame hundred 2 ears hence and that ancient Hiltorians had been as careful to hand down to us the Medals and Coins of their refpettive Times, we fhould now be at a greater Certainty than we are, as to fame very important Points of Chronology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."