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19 hours ago · Whilst this was an inconvenient but predictable complexity given the feud over the election rights had been going on for a decade and was well publicized, the fourth elector in Frederick’s train was a genuine surprise, Henry, duke of Carinthia, who as you may remember had held the throne of Bohemia for short periods, twice.
19 hours ago · Frederick II ( German: Friedrich II.; 24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786. He was the last Hohenzollern monarch titled King in Prussia, declaring himself King of Prussia after annexing Royal Prussia from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772. His most significant accomplishments include his ...
4 days ago · On the demolition of Bedford House, the adjoining lands were laid out for building purposes, and Russell and Bedford Squares were erected about the year 1804, and were named after the Russells, Earls and Dukes of Bedford. For some time previously—as we have already shown in our account of Bloomsbury Square, Great Ormond Street, and other ...
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5 days ago · Maria Theresa. (Show more) War of the Austrian Succession, (1740–48), a conglomeration of related wars, two of which developed directly from the death of Charles VI, Holy Roman emperor and head of the Austrian branch of the house of Habsburg, on Oct. 20, 1740. In the war for the Austrian succession itself, France unsuccessfully supported the ...
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5 days ago · Dr Thomas Foerster, review of Frederick Barbarossa: the Prince and the Myth, (review no. 2018) DOI: 10.14296/RiH/2014/2018. Date accessed: 25 May, 2024. Frederick Barbarossa is arguably one of the most important German rulers of the Middle Ages, and certainly one of the best known. Still, English-speaking readers have had to wait a long time ...
5 days ago · The first stone was laid on July 27, 1848, by Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge, and the fabric (excluding the bell-turret) was erected by George Myers at a cost of £4,800 to the designs of Isaac Clarke and James Humphrys.
2 days ago · Following the battle at Prague, Frederick took 5,000 troops from the siege at Prague and sent them to reinforce the 19,000-man army under the Duke of Brunswick-Bevern at Kolín in Bohemia. Daun arrived too late to participate in the battle of Prague, but picked up 16,000 men who had escaped from the battle.
