The History of Modern Europe: From the Fall of Constantinople, in 1453, to the War in the Crimea, in 1857, Том 3

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J. Murray, 1864

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Стр. 338 - ... Meanwhile Admiral Vernon, setting sail with the English fleet from Jamaica, captured Porto Bello, on the Isthmus of Darien, December 1st — an exploit for which he received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament. His attempt on Carthagena, in the spring of 1741, proved, however, a complete failure through his dissensions, it is said, with General Wentworth, the commander of the land forces. A squadron, under Commodore Anson, despatched to the South Sea for the purpose of annoying the Spanish...
Стр. 199 - Bay, either by way of restitution or cession ; and that both nations should continue to enjoy whatever territories they might be possessed of in North America at the ratification of the treaties. She likewise insisted upon a security that the crowns of France and Spain should never be united on the same head.
Стр. 270 - words of art" as he calls them, which Philemon Holland, a voluminous translator at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century...
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Стр. 107 - Porte, and terminated a war in which the Venetians are said to have lost 30,000 men, and the Turks upwards of 118,000.
Стр. 296 - Louis XIV. was read amid a silence of disapprobation. Philip then protested against an act which, he said, had been extorted from the late King ; he silenced the attempted remonstrances of the Duke du Maine, and the Parliament proclaimed him Regent by acclamation. He was also invested with the guardianship of the young King, and with the command of the forces ; in short, he was intrusted with an almost absolute power, and the testament of Louis, as, indeed, that Sovereign had anticipated, was entirely...
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Стр. 109 - September 11, the allies reached the heights of Kahlenberg, within sight of Vienna, and announced their arrival to the beleaguered citizens by means of rockets. On the following day the Turks were attacked, and after a few hours' resistance completely routed.

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