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Identifier: americanaunivers07newy (find matches)
Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
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s armymore formidable. In 1743 on the death of thelast Count of Ea.st Friesland, he took possessionof that country, the reversion of which had beengranted to his family in 1644 by the emperor.The war of the .■\ustrian Succession continued;the Emperor Charles VII. was driven from hishereditary estates of Bavaria, and the Aus-trians were everywhere victorious. Frederick,apprehensive that an attempt would be madeto recover Silesia, entered into a secret alliancewith France (.\pril I7m)i and with the em-peror, the palatinate, and Hesse-Cassel, in Frank-fort (22 May 1744). He promised to supportthe cause of the emperor by the invasion ofBohemia, on condition that he should receive thecircle of Koniggratz. He entered Bohemia sud-denly. 10 Aug. 1744, and captured Prague: butthe Austrians and Saxons compelled him toevacuate Bohemia before the close of the year.The death of the emperor (18 Jan. 1745). andthe defeat of the Bavarians at Pfaffenhofen,obliged Maximilian Joseph, the young elector
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FREDERICK THE GREAT, ONE OF THE STATUES PRESENTED TO HARVARD INIVERSITY BY EMPEROR WILLIAM II. FREDERICK of Bavaria, to conclude the Peace of Fuessenwith Maria Theresa, and occasioned the dissolu-tion of the AIHance of Frankfort, after Hesse-Cassel had already declared itself neutral. Thevictory of the Prussians over the Saxons atKesselsdorf. 15 Dec. 1745, led to the Peace ofDresden (25 December). Frederick retainedSilesia, acknowledged the husband of MariaTheresa, Francis I., as emperor, and Sa.xonypromised to pay 1,000,000 Saxon dollars toPrussia. During the 11 following years of peace Fred-erick devoted himself with the greatest activityto the domestic administration, to the improve-ment of the army, and at the same time tothe Muses. It was at this time that he wrotehis Memoires pour servir a IHistoire de Bran-denbourg. his poem, LArt de la Guerre, andother works in prose and verse. He encouragedagriculture, the arts, manufactures, and com-merce, reformed the laws, increased the re

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