Early Modern Systems of Command: Queen Annes Generals, Staff Officers and the Direction of Allied Warfare in the Low Countries and Germany, 1702-1711 Stansfield Stewart
Early Modern Systems of Command: Queen Annes Generals, Staff Officers and the Direction of Allied Warfare in the Low Countries and Germany, 1702-1711 Stansfield Stewart The Anglophone history of the…
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Early Modern Systems of Command: Queen Annes Generals, Staff Officers and the Direction of Allied Warfare in the Low Countries and Germany, 1702-1711 Stansfield Stewart
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. Throughout the conflict, Marlborough was variously aided, abetted and disrupted by a number of general and staff officers. 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 forces, or liaise with those of his allies, alone.
While these individuals possessed military dignity according to their rank and station, their real authority in the army was in no small part drawn from the powers and duties delegated to These officers provided the mechanism by which supra-regimental command was effected.