The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: and a View of the Progress of Society, from the Rise of the Modern Kingdoms to the Peace of Paris, in 1763, Volume 4William Young Birch and Abraham Small, 1802 - Europe |
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... sent to Versailles to implore the clemency of the French monarch ibid . Glory and greatness of Lewis XIV . now at their height ib . He sustains an irreparable loss in the death of Colbert , his prime minister 124 ibid . View of ...
... sent to Versailles to implore the clemency of the French monarch ibid . Glory and greatness of Lewis XIV . now at their height ib . He sustains an irreparable loss in the death of Colbert , his prime minister 124 ibid . View of ...
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... sent against him with a body of regu- lar troops ibid . Battle of Killicranky 171 Glorious victory gained by the Highlanders ibid . Death and character of lord Dundee ibid . His army disperses , and all Scotland submits to the autho ...
... sent against him with a body of regu- lar troops ibid . Battle of Killicranky 171 Glorious victory gained by the Highlanders ibid . Death and character of lord Dundee ibid . His army disperses , and all Scotland submits to the autho ...
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... sent orders to de Ruyter , who was cruising with a fleet in the Mediter- ranean , for the purpose of chastising the piratical states of Barbary , to sail toward the coast of Guinea , and put the Hollanders again in possession of those ...
... sent orders to de Ruyter , who was cruising with a fleet in the Mediter- ranean , for the purpose of chastising the piratical states of Barbary , to sail toward the coast of Guinea , and put the Hollanders again in possession of those ...
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... sent the dis- abled ships to different docks to be refitted , they remained on board their own . The whole fleet was soon ready to put to sea , and a new engagement was eagerly sought . Nor was it long denied them . Ruyter and Tromp ...
... sent the dis- abled ships to different docks to be refitted , they remained on board their own . The whole fleet was soon ready to put to sea , and a new engagement was eagerly sought . Nor was it long denied them . Ruyter and Tromp ...
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... sent to sea under de Ruyter ; and the king of France , though pleased to see England and Holland weakening each other's naval force , hastened the sailing of the duke of Beau- fort , lest a second defeat should oblige his friend de Wit ...
... sent to sea under de Ruyter ; and the king of France , though pleased to see England and Holland weakening each other's naval force , hastened the sailing of the duke of Beau- fort , lest a second defeat should oblige his friend de Wit ...
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