This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...the wife of Louis XIV.'s brother, the duke of Orleans, the king laid claim to the allodial lands of the family, a claim which he soon extended to the greater portion of the country. Another ground for Frederio V. (kine; of Boiemia). t 1632. J i i Sophia m. Charles Louis, iSrnest Augustus, t 1680. of Hanover. George I. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...the wife of Louis XIV.'s brother, the duke of Orleans, the king laid claim to the allodial lands of the family, a claim which he soon extended to the greater portion of the country. Another ground for Frederio V. (kine; of Boiemia). t 1632. J i i Sophia m. Charles Louis, iSrnest Augustus, t 1680. of Hanover. George I. Charles, Charlotte Elizabeth, of England. t 1685. m. Philip, duke of without Orleans, brother of male iesue. I.ouis XIV. war was found in the quarrel over the election of the archbishop of Cologne, which Louis was resolved to secure for Von Fiirstenburg, bishop of Strasburg, in place of prince Clement of Bavaria (1688). Meantime the unfavorable impression produced throughout Protestant Europe by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes had contributed to the success of the plans of William of Orange, and 1686. The League of Augsburg, directed against France, was signed July 9. by the Emperor, the kings of Sweden and Spain, the electors of Bavaria, of Saxony, and the palatinate. In 1688 occurred the revolution in England which placed William of Orange on the throne of that country, and added a powerful kingdom to the new foes of Louis. The exiled James II. took refuge with the French monarch (court at St. Germain, p. 385). 1688. Invasion and frightful devastation of the Palatinate, by Oct. order of Louvois, executed by Melac Heidelberg, Mannheim, Speier, Worms, and the whole country as far as the borders of Alsace ravaged and burnt). The military successes of the French on the Rhine were unimportant, especially after 1693, when prince Louis of Bavaria assumed the chief command against them. 1689. The Grand Alliance, between the powers who had joined the League of Augsburg and England and Holland (Savoy had joined the league in 1687). The principal...
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