... against province, regarding not the populations who had bled for him or thrown themselves upon his mercy. This inglorious and passive chapter of Italian history is continued to the date of the French Revolution with the records of three dynastic wars,... The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Ita to Lor - Page 321911Full view - About this book
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - History, Modern - 1856 - 606 pages
...powers stand behind and look on with an interest in the issue. Three distinct wars, called respectively the War of the Polish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, and the Seven Years' War, agitated Europe in this manner between the year 1731 and the year 1763 ;... | |
| Hugh Chisholm - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 1040 pages
...battlefields of northern Europe. A Bourbon at Versailles, a Habsburg at Vienna, or a thick-lipped Lorraincr, with a stroke of his pen, wrote off province against...respectively to diplomatic terminations. Italy, handled and rchandlcd, settled and resettled, upon each of these occasions, changed masters without caring or knowing... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 976 pages
...Revolution with the records of three dynastic wars, the war of the Spanish succession, the war of Ihc Polish succession, the war of the Austrian succession,...disputes. Humiliating to human nature in general as arc the annals of the 18th-century campaigns in Europe, there is no point of view from which they appear... | |
| Joseph Heller - Fiction - 2000 - 356 pages
...First Northern War, the Second Northern War, the War of Devolution, the War of the Grand Alliance, the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the...Polish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years' War, the First Silesian War, the Second Silesian War, the War of the Bavarian Succession,... | |
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