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Hace 1 día · On the left was a column of 18,000 men under the command of the Duke of Brunswick-Bevern. In the centre was Frederick II, himself with Field Marshal James Keith commanding a corps of 30,000 troops. Ferdinand of Brunswick was to close in on the town of Chemnitz. The Duke of Brunswick-Bevern was to traverse Lusatia to close in on Bautzen.
11 de may. de 2023 · Francesco Ferdinando Geminiano (later Francesco V) was born on 1st June 1819 in the Ducal Palace in Modena. He was the second of four children and the oldest son of Francesco IV and his wife, duchess consort and niece Maria Beatrice of Savoy. Her mother was Francesco IV's sister Maria Theresa, Queen of Sardinia.
3 de may. de 2024 · On his deathbed at Whitehall Palace in 1685, Charles asked for Father Huddlestone, who heard the king’s confession, gave him Holy Communion and finally received him into the Catholic Church. It is alleged that the Duke of York later commented that the priest had twice saved the king’s life — first his body, then his soul.
In this last, Leopold sought to give his younger son Charles the entire Spanish inheritance, disregarding the will of the late Charles II. Leopold started a war that soon engulfed much of Europe. The early years of the war went fairly well for Austria , with victories at Schellenberg and Blenheim , but the war would drag on until 1714, nine years after Leopold's death, which barely had an ...
Hace 1 día · Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg and Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen: Ernest Günther I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg: Princess Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg: 15 June 1651: John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg and Elisabeth of Brunswick-Grubenhagen
Hace 1 día · George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with George as its king. He was concurrently Duke and Prince-elector of Hanover ...
8 de may. de 2024 · A 1683 painting of Louise de Kéroualle by Simon Du Bois. At about that time, Portsmouth was instrumental in bringing to Charles II's attention a young Frenchman who proposed a solution to the longitude problem. While the Frenchman's proposal was ineffective, it led Charles to establish the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and appoint John ...
