[252] Commons Journals, 8th November 1689.
[253] Schomberg, 10th February 1690, Cal. S. P., Dom.
[254] Carmarthen to the King, February 1691, Cal. S. P., Dom.
[255] Southwell, January 1690, ibid.
[256] See the very remarkable memorandum in Cal. S. P., Dom. (1691), pp. 398-400.
[257] The Irish campaigns are treated with great fulness by Colonel Clifford Walton, and Marlborough's part in them in particular in Lord Wolseley's Life of Marlborough.
[258] Four troops of life guards, ten regiments of horse, five of dragoons, forty-seven battalions of foot.
[259] I had almost written that France was then, as always, the first military nation; and though Prussia wrested the position from her under Frederick the Great and again in 1870, the lesson of history seems to teach that she is as truly the first military, as England is the first naval, nation.
[260] Belhomme, p. 153.
[261] Feuquières.