For lukewarm, useless, or impotent friends, France has the Pope, who is indifferent; the King of England [James II] expelled from his country; the Grand Duke of Tuscany; the Dukes of Mantua, Modena, and Parma [all in Italy]; and the other faction of the Swiss. Some of these are sun...
List of notable or famous bankers from the United Kingdom, with bios and photos, including the top bankers born in the United Kingdom and even some popular ...
England is without a true king, being run by a ruler without the right of divine providence on his side– altogether, a very difficult situation for a young, inexperienced, and slightly delinquent Prince to take on. The task of proving himself a reliable Prince and a concerned ruler is of...
Hostilities lapsed for years until trouble between England and Spain led to the so-called War ofJenkins's Ear(1739–41), which merged into the War of theAustrian Succession(1740–48). The American phase, King George's War, did not begin until 1744, when the French made an unsuccessful as...
The Spanish Empire remained an enormous global confederation, but its economic supremacy was increasingly challenged by the Dutch Republic and England, and its position in Europe destabilised by the expansionist policies of Louis XIV of France. Her ability to respond effectively to the challenges ...
Which king of England fought Robert the Bruce? Who was king when Gutenberg created the printing press? Who led the House of Habsburg from 1740-1780? Who started the Crusades? Who ruled after Franz Joseph? Who killed Ramesses III? Who founded the Tughlaq dynasty?
‘If I could do all this with so little, what might I have done if I had had the population of France or the riches of England?’ was his unspoken question. It was all greatly overdone. Much of the soil of Brandenburg may have been infertile, but at least it was not mountainous. ...
The 1628 chartering of the Massachusetts Bay Colony resulted in a wave of mi- gration; by 1634, New England had been settled by some 10,000 Puritans. Between the late 1610s and the Americ- an Revolution, an estimated 50,000 convicts were shipped to England's, and later Great Britain's...
Frederick the Great was the King of Prussia; he ruled in this capacity from 1740 until 1786. Prussia was a German kingdom that comprised the northwestern part of the country along the Baltic Sea, up into Poland and modern-day Kaliningrad....
The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales : comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to t Histories England 22,780 The annals of England Histories England 22,712 The Battle Abbey roll : with some account of the Norman lineages Histories England 22,440 ...