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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Cond^and Turenne; Du Quesne makes France supreme in the Mediterranean. 1678—Peace of Nymwegen; height of Louiss power. 1681—Louis seizes Stras-burg. 1685—He revokes the Edict of Nantes. 1688-97—European waragainst France, victories of Marshal Luxemburg and Admiral Tourville. 1700■—Philip of France offered the Spanish crown. 1701-13—War of the SpanishSuccession ; the French defeated by Marlborough and Eugene. 1708—LouisXIV. sues for peace and appeals to the French people. 1709—Battle of Mal-plaquet. 1713—Peace of Utrecht. 1715—Death of Louis XIV. 1715-23—Regency of the Duke of Orleans. 1716-20—The MississippiBubble. 1726-43—Ministry of Cardinal Fleury. 1741—France grasps atthe dominions of Maria Theresa. 1744—Serious illness of Louis XV. bringssorrow to France. 1745—Battle of Fontenoy. 1748-64—Rule of MadamePompadour. 1754—Beginning of the war with England in America. 1757—The French defeated by the Prussians at Rossbach. 1759—Battle of Quebec
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CHARLEMAGNE RECEIVING THE EMBASSY OF HAROUN-AL-RASCHID France—Chronology 95^ loses Canada for the French. 1763—Peace of Paris surrenders Canada andIndia to England. 1768—Corsica joined to France. 1774—Death of Louis XV. 1776—Prime-minister Turgot attempts financial reforms and is dis-missed. 1778—Voltaires triumphant entry into Paris; his death. 1778-83—France lends aid to America in her war of Independence. 1787—Assem-bly of the Notables. 1789—Meeting of the States-General ; the Third Estate led by Mirabeauconstitutes itself a National Assembly ; the storming of the Bastille (July14); the royalist banquet at Versailles; the women march to Versailles, andcompel the King and Queen to return with them to Paris (October 6). 1790—The Assembly makes France a- Constitutional Monarchy. 1791—Death ofMirabeau; flight of the King and his arrest at Vincennes; disbandment of thefirst Assembly and election of the Legislative Assembly. 1792—Wardeclared against Austria; Pruss

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