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A mounted officer came galloping up.
[See CHAPTERX.]

Herbert Strang's Historical Series

With Marlborough to Malplaquet

NOW READY IN THIS SERIES.

With the Black Prince: a Story of the Reign of EdwardIII. By HERBERT STRANG and RICHARD STEAD.

A Mariner of England: a Story of the Reign of QueenElizabeth. By the same authors.

With Marlborough to Malplaquet: a Story of the Reign ofQueen Anne. By the same authors.

With Marlborough to Malplaquet

A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne

by

Herbert Strang

and

Richard Stead
Fellow of the Royal HistoricalSociety

With Four Illustrations in Colour and a Map

NOTE

The object of this series is to encourage a taste for historyamong boys and girls up to thirteen or fourteen years of age. Anattempt has been made to bring home to the young reader theprincipal events and movements of the periods covered by theseveral volumes.

If in these little stories historical fact treads somewhatclosely upon the heels of fiction, the authors would plead theexcellence of their intentions and the limitations of theirspace.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I: A BOUT ATSINGLESTICK

CHAPTER II: THE ATTACK ON THECOLLIERY

CHAPTER III: THE FIRE AT BINFIELDTOWERS

CHAPTER IV: THE RESCUE

CHAPTER V: GEORGERECONNOITRES

CHAPTER VI: THE ROCK OFGIBRALTAR

CHAPTER VII: BLENHEIM

CHAPTER VIII: COMRADES INARMS

CHAPTER IX: ANNUS MIRABILIS

CHAPTER X: "OUR OWN MEN,SIR!"

CHAPTER XI: THE HARDEST FIGHT OF THEMALL

CHAPTER XII: CONCLUSION

HISTORICAL SUMMARY: REIGN OFQUEEN ANNE

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF PRINCIPALEVENTS

PRESS OPINIONS

ILLUSTRATIONS

A MOUNTED OFFICER CAME GALLOPINGUP

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