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| Tango01 | 15 Jan 2019 3:22 p.m. PST |
… the Duke of Marlborough, and a 100-year-old war tragedy in Connemara. "A certain Joycean masterpiece aside, today's literary anniversaries also include the death of one John Churchill, aka the Duke of Marlborough, after whom Dublin's Marlborough Street is named. Not that there was anything literary about him. He was a career soldier, and a very good one, once – he was much admired by Wellington. But he made the strategic error for a military hero of living too long. And when he finally expired, in his seventies, on June 16th, 1722, the event provoked a magnificently spiteful tribute from Jonathan Swift, On the Death of a Late Famous General…."
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