"I had not time to thank you for your kind congratulation on our success at Schelinberg before we had gain'd a second, and much greater victory, which I hope will soon make an end of the War..." - A 21 August 1704 autograph letter signed by John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, Captain-General of English and allied forces in the War of the Spanish Succession, eight days after the battle of Blenheim, to Thomas Coningsby, later first Earl of Coningsby.
Camp at Sindelfingen, Germany: 21 August 1704. Letter. This 21 August 1704 autograph letter is signed by John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough and Captain-General of English and allied forces in the War of the Spanish Succession, eight days after the battle of Blenheim, from his field camp in Germany..... More