In 1762, Carlos was betrothed to his first cousinMaria Luisa of Parma, the daughter of his paternal uncleFelipe, Infante of Spain, Duke of Parma, the founder of theHouse of Bourbon-Parma, andLouise Élisabeth of France, the daughter ofKing Louis XV of France. The marriage was intended to...
Original source: A particular history of the five years French and Indian war in New England and parts adjacent : from its declaration by the King of France, March 15, 1744, to the treaty with the eastern Indians, Oct. 16, 1749, sometimes called Gov. Shirley's war ; with a memoir of...
French and Indian Wars,1689–1763, the name given by American historians to the North American colonial wars between Great Britain and France in the late 17th and the 18th cent. They were really campaigns in the worldwide struggle for empire and were roughly linked to wars of the European co...
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, often referred to simply as the United Kingdom or Britain, is a European sovereign state formed from the union of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland which includes the island of Great Britain, t
Its armies were crushed by Napoleon in the twin battles of Jena and Auerstedt, and in 1807 Prussia had to accept the harsh Treaty of Tilsit, by which it lost all lands W of the Elbe and most of its share of Poland and became a virtual dependency of France. Prussia was fortunate to ...
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since it was not yet known that it originated in the Americas. The European quarter has the most abundant selection of plants, highlighting the lack of in-depth knowledge of the other areas of the world. In the centre of the page are two figures: Adam, holding a spade, and Solomon, kno...
In 2012, a skeleton was excavated at the presumed site of the Grey Friars friary in Leicester, the last-known resting place of King Richard III. Archaeological, osteological and radiocarbon dating data were consistent with these being his remains. Here we report DNA analyses of both the skeletal...
5 UMR5288-CNRS/Universite´ Paul Sabatier-Toulouse 3 Laboratoire Anthropologie Mole´culaire et Imagerie de Synthe`se Faculte´ de Me´decine Purpam 37, alle´es Jules Guesde, 31073 Toulouse, France. 6 Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, ...
John(1199-1216)---Second surviving son of HenryⅡ, who signed theMagna Carta Large territories in France passed from English control The Pope declared John excommunicated or no longer a menber of the Catholic Church The barons united in a “tenant’s rights” movement and wrote the famous do...