Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 7. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 401
... Charles and Louis in a very bloody battle in the plains of Fontenoy , where 100,000 Franks perifhed , in the year 842. This victory , however , bloody as it was , did not decide the fortune of the war . The conquerors having , through ...
... Charles and Louis in a very bloody battle in the plains of Fontenoy , where 100,000 Franks perifhed , in the year 842. This victory , however , bloody as it was , did not decide the fortune of the war . The conquerors having , through ...
Page 402
... Charles the fon of Adelaide , afterwards named Charles the Simple . He defeated the Normans , and repreffed the power of the nobility ; on which ac- count a faction was formed in favour of Charles , who was fent for , with his mother ...
... Charles the fon of Adelaide , afterwards named Charles the Simple . He defeated the Normans , and repreffed the power of the nobility ; on which ac- count a faction was formed in favour of Charles , who was fent for , with his mother ...
Page 705
... Charles employed every minute of his leifure in ma king arrangements for increafing and preferving his he- reditary dominions in Italy and the Mediterranean . Happily for him , the crown of Britain devolved to the houfe of Hanover ; an ...
... Charles employed every minute of his leifure in ma king arrangements for increafing and preferving his he- reditary dominions in Italy and the Mediterranean . Happily for him , the crown of Britain devolved to the houfe of Hanover ; an ...
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