A Compendium of the History of All Nations: Exhibiting a Concise View of the Origin, Progress, Decline and Fall of the Most Considerable Empires, Kingdoms, and States of the World, from the Earliest Times to the Present Period. Interspersed with a Short Account of the Prevailing Religions. Ornamented with a Frontispiece... and Three Other Plates |
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... Charles V ..... The Peace of Westphalia , 71 England .... From its earliest period .... Heptarchy ..... Norman Conquest ..... Plantagenets .... Conquest of Ireland ..... Civil Wars of York and Lancaster .... Reformation , James I ....
... Charles V ..... The Peace of Westphalia , 71 England .... From its earliest period .... Heptarchy ..... Norman Conquest ..... Plantagenets .... Conquest of Ireland ..... Civil Wars of York and Lancaster .... Reformation , James I ....
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... Charles V. - The Peace of West- phalia . The warlike Germans , who first resisted , then inva- ded , and at last overturned , the western monarchy of Rome , have the next claim to our attention . Ancient Germany extended over one third ...
... Charles V. - The Peace of West- phalia . The warlike Germans , who first resisted , then inva- ded , and at last overturned , the western monarchy of Rome , have the next claim to our attention . Ancient Germany extended over one third ...
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... dominions . During this reign Germany was di- vided into circles , in each of which a provincial and par- ticular jurisdiction was established . On his death , Charles V. succeeded to the throne in 1516 , whose Germany . 75.
... dominions . During this reign Germany was di- vided into circles , in each of which a provincial and par- ticular jurisdiction was established . On his death , Charles V. succeeded to the throne in 1516 , whose Germany . 75.
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... Charles V. succeeded to the throne in 1516 , whose reign abounded in great and important events . He was grandson to Maximilian , and heir to the kingdom of Spain in right of his mother Joanna . This was the period of the reformation of ...
... Charles V. succeeded to the throne in 1516 , whose reign abounded in great and important events . He was grandson to Maximilian , and heir to the kingdom of Spain in right of his mother Joanna . This was the period of the reformation of ...
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... Charles VI . who dying without male issue , the house of Austria was extinguished , after it had governed Germany upwards of three centuries . The succession to the whole Austrian dominions be . longed to the archduchess Maria Theresa ...
... Charles VI . who dying without male issue , the house of Austria was extinguished , after it had governed Germany upwards of three centuries . The succession to the whole Austrian dominions be . longed to the archduchess Maria Theresa ...
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