id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 37505 Defoe, Daniel A Short Narrative of the Life and Actions of His Grace John, D. of Marlborogh .txt text/plain 16915 770 70 Actions of his grace, John, Duke of Marlborough, published 20 Defoe remarks, "our General wants neither Conduct or Courage" and The Life of Marlborough is part of a stream of pamphlets which Defoe was writing Reasons for a Peace; Or, the War at an End. Taken in chronological order, Defoe's 1711 pamphlets indicate two In the Life, Defoe defends the general from the charge of avarice, Defoe's concern--even Marlborough could be mistaken in battle and lose, Defoe's Life of Marlborough serves as a kind of barometer for the age party of the King's Forces; both his Majesty and my Lord Marlborough Places at Court and in the Army: I write this to the common People Lord has done for the French King, for a great many Years to this that a great General, I mean such a one as the Duke of Marlborough, John Duke of Marlborough, has a great share of it. ./cache/37505.txt ./txt/37505.txt