Blenheim, Queensland falling numbers attending, the church was closed and physically relocated to Laidley. Blenheim, Queensland Blenheim is a rural locality of the Lockyer Valley Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2011 census, Blenheim had a population of 259 people. Originally the district was known as Sandy Creek, but later it was named Blenheim after Blenheim Park in Oxfordshire, England, which was in turn named after the Battle of Blenheim. Blenheim State School opened on 7 Apr 1879, with an initial enrolment of 73 pupils. In 1895, a German Baptist church was established at Blenheim under the leadership of C. Muetzelburg. As time
After Blenheim he contradicts her, no, he says, it was a great victory. The poem is a scathing commentary on "man's cruelty to man". While Southey's verse, "After Blenheim", is considered by some an anti-war poem, arguably Southey was not himself anti-war: Byron himself considered Southey a puzzle: on the one hand, he denigrated the English victory at Blenheim, but praised the Battle of Waterloo in "The Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo", a popular poem that generated £215 in two months of publication. It is one of Southey's most famous poems. The internal repetition of "but 'twas a famous victory" juxtaposed with the