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... caused them to be executed , and conferred the Principality on Dan , Voyvode of Moldavia . The wish that lay nearest the Regent's heart was to retrieve his reputation against the Turks , so sadly damaged by the defeat at Varna ; but the ...
... caused them to be executed , and conferred the Principality on Dan , Voyvode of Moldavia . The wish that lay nearest the Regent's heart was to retrieve his reputation against the Turks , so sadly damaged by the defeat at Varna ; but the ...
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... causes assigned , the most probable seems to be that which derives it from the sacredness belonging to the person of the Emperor in the later ages of Rome . However this may be , during nearly all the period embraced in this work the ...
... causes assigned , the most probable seems to be that which derives it from the sacredness belonging to the person of the Emperor in the later ages of Rome . However this may be , during nearly all the period embraced in this work the ...
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... caused her to be arrested ; and , assembling the Hungarian and Bohemian nobles at Znaim , in Moravia , persuaded them , almost with his dying breath , to elect Duke Albert as his successor . day ( December 9th , 1437 ) . Tillier , Gesch ...
... caused her to be arrested ; and , assembling the Hungarian and Bohemian nobles at Znaim , in Moravia , persuaded them , almost with his dying breath , to elect Duke Albert as his successor . day ( December 9th , 1437 ) . Tillier , Gesch ...
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... caused the Italian belligerents to reflect on the pernicious nature of the contest in which they were engaged ; and Pope Nicholas V. summoned a congress at Rome to consider of the means of making head against the common enemy . None of ...
... caused the Italian belligerents to reflect on the pernicious nature of the contest in which they were engaged ; and Pope Nicholas V. summoned a congress at Rome to consider of the means of making head against the common enemy . None of ...
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... caused the Duke of Orleans to be assassinated at Paris , and openly avowed and justified the deed . A civil war ensued . France was divided into two furious parties : the Armagnacs , so called from the Count of Armagnac , father - in ...
... caused the Duke of Orleans to be assassinated at Paris , and openly avowed and justified the deed . A civil war ensued . France was divided into two furious parties : the Armagnacs , so called from the Count of Armagnac , father - in ...
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