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5 days ago · Hanseatic League, organization founded by north German towns and German merchant communities abroad to protect their mutual trading interests. The league dominated commercial activity in northern Europe from the 13th to the 15th century.
6 days ago · The Hanseatic League was a medieval commercial and defensive network of merchant guilds and market towns in Central and Northern Europe. Growing from a few North German towns in the late 12th century, the League expanded between the 13th and 15th centuries and ultimately encompassed nearly 200 settlements across eight modern-day countries, ranging from Estonia in the north and east, to the ...
May 19, 2024 · The Hanseatic League, formed in the early 12th century, originated as a voluntary association of merchants' guilds and trading towns in Northern Europe. In the political insecurity of the medieval period, there was a need for both protection and cooperation to facilitate trade. Centered in Lübeck, Germany, it soon grew along the Baltic and ...
May 14, 2024 · Battle of Waterloo (June 18, 1815), Napoleon’s final defeat at the hands of the duke of Wellington’s combined allied army and a Prussian army under Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher. The battle, fought south of Waterloo, Belgium, ended 23 years of recurrent warfare between France and the other powers of Europe.
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- What was the Battle of Waterloo?The Battle of Waterloo was a conflict on June 18, 1815, during the Hundred Days, the period from Napoleon’s escape from exile to the return of Loui...
- Why is the Battle of Waterloo important?The Battle of Waterloo marked the final defeat of Napoleon. On June 22, 1815, four days after losing the conflict, Napoleon abdicated as emperor of...
- How did the Battle of Waterloo start?Napoleon, emperor of France, launched a series of wars that temporarily ended in 1814, when he was forced to abdicate. Exiled to Elba, he left the...
- How was the Battle of Waterloo won?Following secondary battles, the Battle of Waterloo began on June 18, 1815. Four French attacks on the allied army’s centre failed to break through...
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5 days ago · March 1535, 1-10. 1 March. R. O. 305. Sir Fras. Bryan to Cromwell. About Michaelmas last his servant, Edward Conquest, had two geldings stolen from his stable by two thieves, of whom one was hanged at Aylesbury since Christmas and the other fled. The former confessed the sale of the horses in Southwark.
1 day ago · Pavia alone held out, and on 24 February 1525 (Charles's twenty-fifth birthday), Charles's forces led by Charles de Lannoy captured Francis and crushed his army in the Battle of Pavia. In 1535, Francesco II Sforza died without heirs, and Charles V annexed the territory as a vacant Imperial state with the help of Massimiliano Stampa, one of the ...
6 days ago · A popular belief (omen) is that Hamburg will be free and Hanseatic so long as swans are living on the Alster river. In 1712/13, the plague raged in Hamburg and Altona. The latter was burned down by a trespassing Swedish army (Altona was not part of Hamburg at the time); Sweden's adversaries retaliated by burning down Wolgast in Swedish Pomerania.
