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Page 634
... European domination under the most favourable auspices . Before the Grand Alliance of European Powers could be got together to oppose him , Spain and France were firmly united , the blue - coated armies had swamped the carefully ...
... European domination under the most favourable auspices . Before the Grand Alliance of European Powers could be got together to oppose him , Spain and France were firmly united , the blue - coated armies had swamped the carefully ...
Page 877
... Europe in the interests of the Holy Three . By so doing he was , on the one hand , deliberately wrecking the most hopeful scheme hitherto propounded for perpetuating European peace , but on the other he was saving Europe from an ...
... Europe in the interests of the Holy Three . By so doing he was , on the one hand , deliberately wrecking the most hopeful scheme hitherto propounded for perpetuating European peace , but on the other he was saving Europe from an ...
Page 936
... European tragedy that had begun at Vienna and was to close - not without the prospect of a sequel - at Versailles . The key of the European situation was at Paris , for between Anglo - Saxondom , on the one hand , and the Holy Three ...
... European tragedy that had begun at Vienna and was to close - not without the prospect of a sequel - at Versailles . The key of the European situation was at Paris , for between Anglo - Saxondom , on the one hand , and the Holy Three ...
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