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After the War of the Spanish | HISTORY OF FRANCE

French and British on land

After the War of the Spanish Succession the French and the British often act in a somewhat uneasy alliance. The main reason is that both nations have political leaders, Cardinal Fleury and Robert Walpole, who see peace a...

After the War of the Spanish | THE WAR OF THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION

French and British on land

After the War of the Spanish Succession the French and the British often act in a somewhat uneasy alliance. The main reason is that both nations have political leaders, Cardinal Fleury and Robert Walpole, who see peace a...

After the War of the Spanish | HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN (from 1707)

French and British on land

After the War of the Spanish Succession the French and the British often act in a somewhat uneasy alliance. The main reason is that both nations have political leaders, Cardinal Fleury and Robert Walpole, who see peace a...

The French forces meet stronger opposition | HISTORY OF MEXICO

A tale of two emperors

The French forces meet stronger opposition than they expect (they are defeated in their first engagement against the Mexicans, at Puebla in May 1862), but with the help of reinforcements from France they have more succes...

The French revolution and Napoleon`s reforms | HISTORY OF THE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE

Austria and ethnic nationalism

The French revolution and Napoleon's reforms inspire suppressed minorities throughout Europe with the dream of self-determination. This is particularly true in those parts of the Austrian empire where people of non-Germa...

The French revolution and Napoleon`s reforms | HISTORY OF HUNGARY

Austria and ethnic nationalism

The French revolution and Napoleon's reforms inspire suppressed minorities throughout Europe with the dream of self-determination. This is particularly true in those parts of the Austrian empire where people of non-Germa...

The French revolution and Napoleon`s reforms | HISTORY OF BOHEMIA

Austria and ethnic nationalism

The French revolution and Napoleon's reforms inspire suppressed minorities throughout Europe with the dream of self-determination. This is particularly true in those parts of the Austrian empire where people of non-Germa...

The French neurosis about being tainted | HISTORY OF LANGUAGE

Imperial tongues

The French neurosis about being tainted by English (though the intrusion is trivial compared to the overwhelming effect of Norman French on English in the past) is linked to a wider aspect of the evolutionary struggle be...

On that first occasion the French | HISTORY OF FRANCE

Second Republic

On that first occasion the French king, Louis Philippe, thinks it wise to underplay this feeble act of insurrection. Louis Napoleon is quietly deported to the United States. But the would-be emperor is not so easily disc...