text:  So general was the indignation at this shameful return on the part of the Dutch generals to Marlborough for all the services he had rendered to their country that it drew forth the strongest expressions from one of his ablest but most determined opponents Lord Bolingbroke who wrote to him at this juncture:--"It was very melancholy to find the malice of Slangenberg the fears of Dopf and the ignorance of the deputies to mention no more prevail so to disappoint your Grace to their prejudice as well as ours