Blenheim, South Carolina Blenheim, South Carolina Blenheim is a town in Marlboro County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 137 at the 2000 census. It is named for Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England which itself is named for the Battle of Blenheim, a major English victory of the War of the Spanish Succession at what is now Blindheim, Germany. Blenheim Palace was the residence of the Duke of Marlborough, after whom Marlboro County is named. Blenheim Ginger Ale was originally bottled in Blenheim, with the local mineral water. Blenheim is located at (34.507513, -79.653088). According to the United States Census Bureau, the
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