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... party which supported the claim of Albert's posthumous son , the infant Ladislaus , to the Hungarian throne , promised to render that Kingdom an easy prey to the Turkish arms . In the spring of 1440 Amurath marched to attack Belgrade ...
... party which supported the claim of Albert's posthumous son , the infant Ladislaus , to the Hungarian throne , promised to render that Kingdom an easy prey to the Turkish arms . In the spring of 1440 Amurath marched to attack Belgrade ...
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... parties should cross the Danube ; and that Wallachia should be under the protection of Hungary . This peace was scarcely concluded when the Christians pre- pared to break it . The campaign of Wladislaus had excited great interest in ...
... parties should cross the Danube ; and that Wallachia should be under the protection of Hungary . This peace was scarcely concluded when the Christians pre- pared to break it . The campaign of Wladislaus had excited great interest in ...
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... party in Bohemia : but Sigismund , a little before his death , 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 ...
... party in Bohemia : but Sigismund , a little before his death , 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 ...
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... party in May , 1438 ; but the Hussites , incited by Barbara , in a great assembly which they held at Tabor , chose for their King the youthful Prince Casimir , brother of Wladislaus , King of Poland ; a subject to which we have already ...
... party in May , 1438 ; but the Hussites , incited by Barbara , in a great assembly which they held at Tabor , chose for their King the youthful Prince Casimir , brother of Wladislaus , King of Poland ; a subject to which we have already ...
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... party of the Hungarian nobles , retired to Stuhlweissen- burg ( Alba Regalis ) , where the child was crowned by the Arch- bishop of Gran . But the party of the King of Poland , headed by John of Hunyad , proved the stronger . Elizabeth ...
... party of the Hungarian nobles , retired to Stuhlweissen- burg ( Alba Regalis ) , where the child was crowned by the Arch- bishop of Gran . But the party of the King of Poland , headed by John of Hunyad , proved the stronger . Elizabeth ...
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