The History of Germany: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 3Bell & Daldy, 1872 |
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... petty col- lateral Saxon line of Merseburg , founded , A. D. 1653 , by Christian , a son of John George , became extinct . The last duke was such a fiddle - fancier that he was always accom- panied by a carriage filled with those ...
... petty col- lateral Saxon line of Merseburg , founded , A. D. 1653 , by Christian , a son of John George , became extinct . The last duke was such a fiddle - fancier that he was always accom- panied by a carriage filled with those ...
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... petty territory . Charles William Frederick von Ansbach , who succeeded to the government in 1729 , was feared as a madman and a ty- rant . He intrusted the administration to the nobility , more par- * He was the darling of the soldiery ...
... petty territory . Charles William Frederick von Ansbach , who succeeded to the government in 1729 , was feared as a madman and a ty- rant . He intrusted the administration to the nobility , more par- * He was the darling of the soldiery ...
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... petty princes of the empire . These Margraves of Ansbach and Bayreuth appeared as protectors of Protestantism in opposition to the princes of Hohenlohe , ( Bartenstein and Schillingsfürst , ) who , as Catholics , tyrannized over their ...
... petty princes of the empire . These Margraves of Ansbach and Bayreuth appeared as protectors of Protestantism in opposition to the princes of Hohenlohe , ( Bartenstein and Schillingsfürst , ) who , as Catholics , tyrannized over their ...
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... petty principality of Waldeck received 50,000 . The empire was in this manner bought . France had so much superfluous wealth that she also paid a subsidy of 82,700,000 livres to Austria , and another of 8,800,000 to Saxony , towards the ...
... petty principality of Waldeck received 50,000 . The empire was in this manner bought . France had so much superfluous wealth that she also paid a subsidy of 82,700,000 livres to Austria , and another of 8,800,000 to Saxony , towards the ...
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... petty advantages over the French , defeating Soubise at Wilhelmsthal and the Saxons on the Lutterbach . The spiritless war on this side was finally terminated during the course of this year , A. D. 1762 , by a peace between England and ...
... petty advantages over the French , defeating Soubise at Wilhelmsthal and the Saxons on the Lutterbach . The spiritless war on this side was finally terminated during the course of this year , A. D. 1762 , by a peace between England and ...
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