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and Kingdom, by taking upon him to declare the pretended Prince of Wales King of England Scotland and Ireland--but the real end of this war was to put the House of Austrea in Possession of the Throne of Spain and procure a barrier for the Dutch in the Netherlands. The Earl of Marlborough at the head of 60,000-- Men obliged the Duke of Burgundy who commanded the French Army to retire before him. The success which the French armies met with in Italy and on the Rhine greatly hightened the reputation of the Earl of Marlborough who in the beginning of the onset had given so severe a mortification to the Duke of Burgundy that he returned to Versailles and left the command of the Kings troops to-- Boufflers--Sr George Rook who commanded the Naval force of England gained great reputation by attacking the Spanish Galleons comeing from the West-Indies under the convoy of a French Squadron--Ten Ships of War were taken and eleven Galleons, the rest were distroyed the the Enemy to prevent
