[Footnote 11: "This vast addition of renown which your Grace has acquired, and the wonderful preservation of your life, are subjects upon which I can never express a thousandth part of what I feel. _France and faction are the only enemies England has to fear_, and your Grace will conquer both; at least, while you beat the French, you give a strength to the Government which the other dares not contend with."--_Bolingbroke to Marlborough, May 28, 1706. Coxe_, II. 358.] [Footnote 12: "I shall attend the Queen at the thanksgiving on Thursday next: I assure you I shall do it, from every vein within me, having scarce any thing else to support either my head or heart. The _animosity and inveteracy one has to struggle against is unimaginable_, not to mention the difficulty of obtaining things to be done that are reasonable, or of satisfying people with reason when they are done."--_Godolphin to Marlborough, May 24, 1706._] [Footnote 13: Duke of Marlborough to Mr Secretary Harley, June 14, 1706.] [Footnote 14: "The consequences of this battle are likely to be greater than that of Blenheim; for we have now the whole summer before us, and, with the blessing of God, I will make the best use of it. _For as I have had no council of war before this battle, so I hope to have none during the whole campaign_; and I think we may make such work of it as may give the Queen the glory of making a safe and honourable peace, for the blessing of God is certainly with us."--_Marlborough to Lord Godolphin, May 27, 1706. Coxe, II. 365._] [Footnote 15: Marlborough to Mr Secretary Harley, 3d June 1706. _Desp. II._ 554.] [Footnote 16: Marlborough to Duchess of Marlborough, May 31, 1706.] [Footnote 17: Marlborough to Secretary Harley, Helchin, 9th August 1706. _Desp._ III. 69.] [Footnote 18: Marlborough to Duke of Savoy, Helchin, 25th August 1706. _Desp._ III. 101.] [Footnote 19: Marlborough to Godolphin, September 4, 1706. _Coxe_, III. 10.] [Footnote 20: "If the Dutch can furnish ammunition for the siege of Mons, we shall undertake it; for if the weather continues fair, we shall have it much cheaper this year than the next, when they have had time to recruit their army. The taking of that town would be a very great advantage to us for the opening of next campaign, which we must make if we would bring France to such a peace as will give us quiet hereafter."--_Marlborough to Godolphin, October 14, 1706. Coxe_, III. 14.] [Footnote 21: "M. de Vendôme tells his officers he has one hundred and forty battalions and one hundred and eighty squadrons, and that, if my Lord Marlborough gives him an opportunity, he will pay him a visit before this campaign ends. I believe he has neither will nor power to do it, which we shall see quickly, for we are now camped in so open a country that if he marches to us we cannot refuse fighting."--_Marlborough to Lord Godolphin, October 14, 1706. Ibid._]