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by Old John » Fri Apr 07, 2017 2:54 pm
Regarding Camaret Bay letter, have you read Frank Taylor's Marlborough's Wars Volume 2 1707-1709 Appendix 7 "Disgrace" which gives a different perspective to the background of the letter, would appear culprit was Godolphin's Jacobite contact who alerted Louis XIV to the proposed raid a month or so before Marlborough's letter, the preparations for a raid were well known in France and the raid was talk of London well before Marlborough's letter, enabling Vauban to improve defences
many senior figures at the time were in touch with St Germain so as protect their titles, land, families in case succession to British Throne came into question whether, Mary, William, Anne, Hanoverian or a Protestant Pretender succeeded
Slightly different topic, who commanded Allied forces at Waterloo ? Wellington of course, ergo BRITISH VICTORY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
cheers Old John Defender of Corporal John