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... proved to be the last of the contests between France and Austria until the Revolution ; it also marked the end , for all practical purposes , of the Anglo - Dutch and the Anglo- Austrian alliances . Frederick's timing of his invasion ...
... proved to be the last of the contests between France and Austria until the Revolution ; it also marked the end , for all practical purposes , of the Anglo - Dutch and the Anglo- Austrian alliances . Frederick's timing of his invasion ...
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... proved to be an enlightened monarch , a patron of art and letters , the founder of an Academy in Stockholm . But eventually the Swedish nobility proved too strong for him , and in March 1792 he was assassinated . Even before that event ...
... proved to be an enlightened monarch , a patron of art and letters , the founder of an Academy in Stockholm . But eventually the Swedish nobility proved too strong for him , and in March 1792 he was assassinated . Even before that event ...
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... proved himself one of the ablest continuators of Newton in the eighteenth century . Among his many discoveries was that of the periodic variations in the major axes of the solar system . He survived the Revolution , to be rewarded by ...
... proved himself one of the ablest continuators of Newton in the eighteenth century . Among his many discoveries was that of the periodic variations in the major axes of the solar system . He survived the Revolution , to be rewarded by ...
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PART | 11 |
CONTINENTAL EMPIRES MONARCHIES | 48 |
OVERSEAS SETTLEMENT AND TRADE | 74 |
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