Blenheim Palace Blenheim Palace Blenheim Palace (pronounced ) is a monumental country house in Blenheim, Oxfordshire, England. It is the principal residence of the Dukes of Marlborough, and the only non-royal, non-episcopal country house in England to hold the title of palace. The palace, one of England's largest houses, was built between 1705 and 1722, and designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. The palace is named for the 1704 Battle of Blenheim, and thus ultimately after Blindheim (also known as Blenheim) in Bavaria. It was originally intended to be a reward to John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough for his
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