The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 1John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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Page 315
... Protestant instinct to prefer the Dutch . The French were set free to throw their strength into the War of Devolution , an attempt to fortify their eastern frontiers at the expense of Spain , and to advance the claim of their Queen to ...
... Protestant instinct to prefer the Dutch . The French were set free to throw their strength into the War of Devolution , an attempt to fortify their eastern frontiers at the expense of Spain , and to advance the claim of their Queen to ...
Page 320
... Protestants had seemed to denote " an universal design to destroy all that would not go to mass throughout Europe " , did the English , the Dutch and other Protestant peoples feel that a new effort must be made . The brutal treatment of ...
... Protestants had seemed to denote " an universal design to destroy all that would not go to mass throughout Europe " , did the English , the Dutch and other Protestant peoples feel that a new effort must be made . The brutal treatment of ...
Page 352
... Protestants else- where , because Protestant princes aimed at choosing a Protestant emperor or at forming a Protestant fleet , because the Catholic emperor had qualms about supporting the Guelphs against the Stuarts or even , on ...
... Protestants else- where , because Protestant princes aimed at choosing a Protestant emperor or at forming a Protestant fleet , because the Catholic emperor had qualms about supporting the Guelphs against the Stuarts or even , on ...
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