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Hace 3 días · Philip's uncle and high commander of the Greek expeditionary force, King Constantine I, was blamed for the defeat and was forced to abdicate in September 1922. The new military government arrested Andrew, along with others.
30 de jun. de 2024 · Reared chiefly in Great Britain, Philip was educated at Gordonstoun School, near Elgin, Moray, Scotland, and at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, Devon, England. From January 1940 to the end of World War II, he served with the Royal Navy in combat in the Mediterranean and the Pacific.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hace 5 días · Philip's initial aim was to achieve a decisive 'great victory' in the long-running war against the rebellious Dutch provinces of the Spanish Netherlands, while placing renewed pressure on the English government of Queen Elizabeth I in an effort to terminate English support for their Dutch colleagues.
Hace 6 días · King Philip’s War (1675-1678) was a brutal and pivotal conflict between Native American tribes and English colonists in New England. Named after Metacom, the Wampanoag leader known as King...
Hace 1 día · On the Spanish side, the Treaty of London (1604), which ended 16 years of Anglo-Spanish war, was negotiated on the initiative of Philip II’s son-in-law, the archduke Albert, to whom Philip II in his last year had handed over the nominal sovereignty of the Spanish Netherlands.
25 de jun. de 2024 · Philip II, king of Spain (1556–98) and Portugal (1580–98) who was a champion of the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation. During his reign the Spanish empire attained its greatest power, extent, and influence, though he lost the ‘Invincible Armada’ in the attempted invasion of England (1588).
Hace 2 días · Philip was confirmed as king of Spain, but renounced any claim to the French throne. He also ceded the Spanish Netherlands and much of Spain's Italian territories to Austria, and confirmed British possession of Gibraltar and Menorca, captured during the war.
