Le Verre D'Eau ou Les Effets et les Causes (Heath's Modern Language Series)

vi INTRODUCTION the rest were satisfied. Even at that time England was the richest country in Europe, and able to pay subsidies for foreign troops, so that by adding a small contingent of her own soldiers, and by the use of her navy, she became a most important member of the alliance. In addition she furnished one of the ablest generals of the age, Marlborough, whose genius soon became recognized as one of the most potent factors in the war.