Excerpt from The Reign of Queen Anne, Vol. 2 of 2Marlborough had more direct dealings with Charles the Twelfth, whose co-operation, if it could be Obtained, was considered by the English Government much more important than that Of Peter. Charles had been a disturbing inuence throughout a great part Of the European Continent since his succession to the throne of Sweden, and he was looked upon as a man who might easily be prevailed upon to take an active and an important share in any dazzling enterprise which seemed to promise military glory. At a very critical period in the war Marlborough, whose presence it might have been thought could ill be spared from the field Of action, was sent on a special mission to Charles with the real, although not the avowed, Object Of securing if possible the co-opera tion, or at all events the neutrality, of the Sv. Edish Sovereign.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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