The duke of Berwick on quitting the country, entered into the service of France, and was engaged in several battles against the English or their allies in Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain. At his death he was in the sixty-fourth year of his age. No general of his time excelled him in the art of war except his uncle, the duke of Marlborough.[211]
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
Mean Temperature 58·40.
[210] Mirror of the Months.
[211] Butler’s Chronological Exercises.