Early Modern Systems of Command: Queen Anne's Generals, Staff Officers and the Direction of Allied Warfare in the Low Countries and Germany, 1702-1711

by Stewart Stansfield

Book Overview

The Anglophone history of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14) in the Low Countries is dominated by military biographies of John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), and studies of the battles he fought. Yet while Marlborough exercised a profound influence as a statesman and general--operating as he did in a less flexible paradigm that could emphasize high-level actors at the expense of their subordinates--he did not direct his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910294470
• ISBN13: 9781910294475
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Helion & Company
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"