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... soon afterwards concluded another offensive and defensive alliance with Henry IV . ( May 24th ) , in which the contracting parties pledged themselves to make no separate peace or truce with Philip II .; and they invited all those States ...
... soon afterwards concluded another offensive and defensive alliance with Henry IV . ( May 24th ) , in which the contracting parties pledged themselves to make no separate peace or truce with Philip II .; and they invited all those States ...
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... soon afterwards consoled himself for this blow by taking Amiens . Its capture was effected by an ingenious stratagem of the Spanish general Puertocarrero . Setting out from Dourlens with 3,000 men , Puertocarrero halted them before dawn ...
... soon afterwards consoled himself for this blow by taking Amiens . Its capture was effected by an ingenious stratagem of the Spanish general Puertocarrero . Setting out from Dourlens with 3,000 men , Puertocarrero halted them before dawn ...
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... soon converted into a regular army by recruits from all parts of the kingdom . Henry's success against the Duke of Savoy and in Brittany has been already related . After a siege of several months Amiens submitted ( September 19th , 1597 ) ...
... soon converted into a regular army by recruits from all parts of the kingdom . Henry's success against the Duke of Savoy and in Brittany has been already related . After a siege of several months Amiens submitted ( September 19th , 1597 ) ...
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... soon afterwards captured in that town , and was detained more than a twelvemonth prisoner in a castle near Lublin , till at length the Emperor Rodolph was obliged to obtain his liberation by pay- ing a large ransom , and ceding to the ...
... soon afterwards captured in that town , and was detained more than a twelvemonth prisoner in a castle near Lublin , till at length the Emperor Rodolph was obliged to obtain his liberation by pay- ing a large ransom , and ceding to the ...
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... soon made great progress , in spite of the efforts of Germigny , the French am- bassador to the Porte , to counteract him . Germigny , indeed , succeeded at first in getting a treaty cancelled which Harburn had effected in 1580 , and ...
... soon made great progress , in spite of the efforts of Germigny , the French am- bassador to the Porte , to counteract him . Germigny , indeed , succeeded at first in getting a treaty cancelled which Harburn had effected in 1580 , and ...
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Page 427 - King James the Second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between King and people, and, by the advice of Jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of the kingdom, had abdicated the government, and that the throne had thereby become vacant.