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John, 123
    Huddlestone, Father John, 109
    Hudson’s Bay Company, 110, 135
    Huguenots:
    flee France, 129–30
    refugee troops against French, 330
    Humières, Marshal Louis de Crevant, duc d’, 159–62
    Hungary:
    rebellion against Austrian Empire, 250–1
    Huntingdon, George Hastings, 8th Earl of, 228
    Huy:
    captured, 247, 249
    French threaten, 259, 332
    Villeroi captures, 310
    trenches, 312
    garrison exchanged for prisoners of war, 367
    Hyde, Anne see York, Duchess of
    Hyde, Lieutenant James, 99
    Hyde, Laurence see Rochester, 1st Earl of
    Iberian Peninsula see Portugal; Spain Indulgence, Declarations of:
    (1672), 67, 77
    (1688), 28
    Industrial Revolution, 14, 31
    infantry tactics:
    battalion and platoon firing, 284–5
    Ingoldsby, Lieutenant General Richard, 204, 312, 478
    Ingolstadt, 250
    siege (1704), 279
    Innocent XI, Pope, 146
    interest and influence (patronage), 22–7, 31
    Ireland:
    troops raised, 50
    and religious persecution, 130
    army reformed under James II, 132–4
    campaign in (1690–1), 159, 164–71
    foreign troops in, 169–70
    Marlborough’s expedition to, 169–70
    troops at Malplaquet, 427
    see also Boyne, battle of the
    Irwin, Major, 405
    Italy:
    campaigns, 224, 309, 329–30, 359
    Marlborough plans visit to, 331
    French withdraw from, 350, 356, 359
    Jacobites and Jacobitism:
    as threat, 15
    Marlborough maintains links with, 153, 165–6, 184, 191, 392, 467, 471, 474
    rebellion (1715), 153, 470–1
    ex-officers embrace, 158
    Godolphin’s links with, 165
    plots, 187
    attempted landing in Scotland (1708), 215, 364, 369, 370
    Whigs fear invasion, 463
    rebellion (1745), 471
    Jaeger, Marie Sophie, 366
    James I, King of England (James VI of Scotland), 27, 67
    James II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland ( earlier Duke of York):
    Marlborough abandons, 3, 151–3
    mistresses and affairs, 14, 47, 87
    deposed, 15–16
    and cruel punishments, 18, 95
    exile in Netherlands, 26, 92–3
    Declaration of Indulgence (1688), 28
    and military officers, 36
    Arlington serves, 45
    affair and children with Arabella Churchill, 47–8
    marriage to Anne Hyde, 47
    and Marlborough’s army commission, 55
    Marlborough serves, 57–8, 70, 92
    as colonel of Lord High Admiral’s Regiment, 61
    naval command against Dutch, 68–9
    favours Marlborough, 77, 89
    Catholicism, 78, 95, 128–9, 131–3, 138–9
    resigns office over religion, 78
    second marriage (to Mary of Modena), 78
    reliance on Irish Catholics, 90
    and exclusion crisis, 91–3
    in Scotland, 93–5
    Argyllopposes, 95–6
    character, 96
    returns to England (1682), 96–7
    escapes from sinking Gloucester , 97–9
    and Anne’s marriage to Prince George, 106
    accession, 109
    and Charles II’s deathbed Catholic reconciliation, 109
    financial support from Louis XIV, 109
    grants English barony to Marlborough, 110
    and Monmouth rebellion, 111, 113–14
    unpopularity, 128–9, 166
    army, 131–5
    dissolves Parliament, 131–2
    allows decline of militias, 132
    conspiracies against, 135–6, 141–4
    birth of son, 137
    seeks repeal of Test Acts, 137
    touches for King’s Evil, 138
    and William’s invasion of England, 142, 145, 147, 149–50, 155
    nosebleeds, 149–50
    Marlborough maintains relations with, 150, 165–6
    abandons plans to resist William, 151
    flees to France, 155–6
    campaign in Ireland, 159, 164, 166–8
    letter of submission from Anne, 166
    and death of daughter Mary, 186
    and Jacobite plots, 187
    court at St Germain en Laye, 193
    supports assassination of William, 193
    death, 194
    James Francis Edward Stuart, Prince of Wales (‘the Old Pretender’):
    portrait, 12
    birth, 137, 141
    and succession to James II, 141
    and Jacobite rebellion (1715), 153, 471
    claims to throne, 166, 191
    Louis XIV recognises as James’s heir, 194
    Marlborough demands expulsion from France, 201
    attempted landing in Britain (1708), 215, 364, 369
    on campaign in Low Countries, 226
    with Burgundy at battle of Oudenarde, 392
    warns French against offering battle for Lille,