John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (Malborouk), 19th century. Illustration from a French broadside to the song "Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre" ("Marlborough Has Left for the War"). The burlesque lament on the death of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722) was written on a false rumour of that event after the Battle of Malplaquet in 1709, the bloodiest battle of the War of the Spanish Succession.

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