Kings & Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth-century EnglandA. A. Knopf, 1942 - 323 sivua Life in eighteenth century England in the time of the French Revolution. |
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... France and Spain united , French sovereignty in Europe would be too dan- gerous . Not , however , for France - wherefore Louis sup- ported Philip's claim , while England , Holland , and Austria banded together to oppose it at any cost ...
... France and Spain united , French sovereignty in Europe would be too dan- gerous . Not , however , for France - wherefore Louis sup- ported Philip's claim , while England , Holland , and Austria banded together to oppose it at any cost ...
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... France and against England's allies , at the Peace of Utrecht ( 1713 ) . By it England swam up to the first place in European affairs . She came off with Newfoundland and Nova Scotia , Minorca and Gibraltar , with the rights to the ...
... France and against England's allies , at the Peace of Utrecht ( 1713 ) . By it England swam up to the first place in European affairs . She came off with Newfoundland and Nova Scotia , Minorca and Gibraltar , with the rights to the ...
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... France , that the long drama that agitated the seventeenth century plays itself out . On the score of blood , the Pretender - as the legitimate son of James II - should have possessed the throne . Even there , however , his claim was ...
... France , that the long drama that agitated the seventeenth century plays itself out . On the score of blood , the Pretender - as the legitimate son of James II - should have possessed the throne . Even there , however , his claim was ...
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