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235: Blackadder at the Battle of Blenheim
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The real Blackadder who fought at the Battle of Blenheim, 1704.
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Long before Rowan Atkinson's comic creation, a real Blackadder was fighting in some of the bloodiest battles in British military history. Lieutenant-Colonel John Blackadder was a Scottish soldier who served under the Duke of Marlborough and fought at the Battle of Blenheim—where he nearly died from a musket ball to the throat.
Born in 1664 to a…
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