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Identifier: historyofallnati14wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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hdraw into thenortheastern part of Bohemia. Upon this the Saxons left the armyaltogether. And thus was the burden of the war once more thrownby all the allies upon Frederick. The Austrians expected to cope with him easily. Precisely atthis time there was added to the military successes of Austria agreat political good fortune, which seemed to promise final ^nctoryto the queen of Hungary. Spain had formed the alliance with Charles Albert only toacquire in the war with Austria fresh territories in Italy for heryounger princes. But such a design was very vexatious to theHouse of Savoy. That house owed its continued maintenance tothe fact that its two powerful neighbors in the sixteenth and seven-teenth centuries, France and Spain, had always been hostile to eachother. Savoy had placed herself now on one side and now on theother, and was thereby enabled to prolong her existence. But nowSpain was under Bourbon sway, like France, and was consequently 254 THE WAR OF THE A VSTRIAX SUCCESSION.
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AUGU^TU^ 111 R£X FÜLONIARUM CCcclot ^axorUix iig. 41.—Augustus III. of Iolaiui, Elector of Saxony ; in Polish costume. After acopper-plate engraving by L. ZuccM (1704-1779); original painting by Louis deSilvestre (1075-1760). THE SCHEMES OF LOliV CARTERET. 255 leagued with the latter in the closest friendship and alliance.Should Spain, therefore, acquire additional possessions in UpperItaly, the House of Savoy would be in serious danger of beingcrushed. This was very clearly perceived by King Charles Emmanuelof Sardinia. When a corps of Spanish troops landed in Tuscany,he declared that hiasmuch as his claims were at least equal to thoseof the princes, he could not consent to new conquests by the Houseof Bourbon in Italy. In February, 1742, he concluded a treaty ofalliance \\ix\\ Maria Theresa, which reserved for the future the ad-justment of all his pretensions, and meanwhile put the excellentSardinian armj- at the queens disposal to defend Älilan. This agree-ment enabled the Aus

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