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HISTORY OF EUROPE: CHAPTER II
1768
Proceedings of the Grand Commission in Poland; among many other regulations, resolves to suppress the jurisdiction of the Nunciature (pg. 8-9). The Pope's Nuncio delivers briefs to the King, Primate, and Bishops, and a manifesto to the Great Chancellor, in which he threatens with excommunication those who subscribe to the acts of the Commissioners (pg. 9). The late Marshal of the Confederacy in Lithuania enters a protest against all the acts of the Grand Commission, and against every thing that shall be transacted under the influence of foreign arms (pg. 9-10). All the treaties between the Republic, the Empress of Russia, and the King of Prussia, are confirmed and renewed (pg. 10). Great immunities are granted to the Russian merchants (pg. 10). The Diet meets, and ratifies all the acts of the High Commission (pg. 10). The two great Confederacies are declared to be at an end; patriotic behaviour of the Grand Marshals (pg. 10-11). The Diet breaks up, and every thing is immediately after in confusion (pg. 11). Inconsistency of the accounts we receive, of the state and conduct of the different parties in that country (pg. 11-12).
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GENERAL HISTORY: CHAPTER IX
1814
Germany (pg. 101). Hamburg (pg. 101-102). Hanover, its erection to a Kingdom (pg. 102). Prince Regent's Proclamation (pg. 102-103). Hanoverian Diet assembled (pg. 103). Speech of the Duke of Cambridge (pg. 103). Free Constitution of Nassau (pg. 103-104). Prussia, its military regulations: alterations in the ritual of public Worship (pg. 104). Congress of Vienna (pg. 104-105). Views of Prussia on Saxony (pg. 105-106). Declaration of the King of Saxony (pg. 106). Frontiers of Turkey: cruel treatment of the Servians (pg. 106).
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HISTORY OF EUROPE: CHAPTER II
1766
Dissolution of the parliament of Brittany; a new commission appointed in its room (pg. 7). French King goes to Paris, and holds a bed of justice; annuls the arrets in favour of the parliament of Brittany (pg. 7-8). Execution of Lally (pg. 8-9). Commotion in Sweden, occasioned by Hoffman (pg. 9-10). Proceedings of the diet in that country, &c. (pg. 10-11). Affairs of Poland (pg. 11). Great powers guarantees of the treaty of Oliva, interpose in favour of the dissidents (pg. 11). Violent heats in the diet upon that subject (pg. 11). Russian troops enter the kingdom (pg. 11-12). The diet breaks up without making the concessions required (pg. 12-14).
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HISTORY OF EUROPE: CHAPTER VII
1771
State of the war upon the Danube (pg. 73). Invasion of Crim Tartary (pg. 73). Lines of Precop forced (pg. 73-75). Caffa taken (pg. 75). The whole Peninsula conquered (pg. 75). Turks pass the Danube, and take Guirgewo (pg. 75-76). Prince Repnin resigns his command (pg. 76). General Essen repulsed (pg. 76-77). Turkish encampments at Tulcza and Maczin forced (pg. 77). Grand Vizir attacked in his camp at Babadagh, and the Turkish army totally routed (pg. 77). Turks abandon the Danube, and fly towards the mountains (pg. 77). Mousson Oglou defeated near Bucharest (pg. 77-78). War in the Mediterranean (pg. 78). Plague appears at Moscow (pg. 78-79). Archbishop massacred (pg. 79). Appearances of peace (pg. 79-80). State of the Ottoman empire (pg. 80). Ali Bey (pg. 80). State of Poland (pg. 80-81). Attempt to assassinate the king (pg. 81-83).
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HISTORY of EUROPE: CHAPTER III
Prudent conduct of the late grand vizir, procures his disgrace; Moldovani Ali Pacha, is appointed his successor (pg. 22-23). Great losses sustained by the Turks in their rash attempts to cross the Niester (pg. 23-26). Turkish army break up their camp, abandon Choczim, and retire tumultuously to the Danube (pg. 26-27). Russians overrun the provinces of Moldavia and Walachia; Greek inhabitants of those provinces acknowledge the empress of Russia as their sovereign, and take oaths of fidelity to her (pg. 27-28). Unsuccessful attempt on the citadel of Brailow (pg. 28). Count Panin fails in his design upon the city of Bender (pg. 28). Disposition of the Russian troops for the winter (pg. 28-29). Preparations made by the Grand Signior for carrying on the war (pg. 29).
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HISTORY OF EUROPE: CHAPTER III
1768
A Confederacy formed in Podolia (pg. 12-13). The Confederates take the city and castle of Bar, and oblige the commander of the crown troops in that province to take refuge in the fortress of Kamineck (pg. 13). Several other Confederacies formed, particularly at Halics, and in the city of Lublin; in the last of which places a skirmish ensued with the Russians, by which great mischief was done, and part of the city burnt (pg. 13-14). The Russian general Podhoriczani defeats a considerable body of the Confederates of Bar near Constantinow (pg. 14-15). The Confederates of Halics, under the Starost Potocki, take the town of Brezani; but are soon after defeated by Colonel Weissman, and pursued into Moldavia (pg. 15-16). City of Cracow taken by the Confederates of Cracovia, who are besieged by the Russians (pg. 16). Engagements near Bar; the city and castle taken (pg. 16-18). Insurrection and barbarities of the Greek peasants in the Ukraine (pg. 18-19).
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HISTORY OF EUROPE: CHAPTER II
1773
Fruitless issue of the negociations for a peace at Bucharest (pg. 11-12). Nature of the war on the Danube (pg. 12-13). Wise conduct of the Grand Vizir (pg. 13). State of the army under General Romanzow (pg. 13-14). Russians pass the river; engagement; nature of the country: difficulties on the march to Silistria (pg. 14-15). Attack on the Turkish encampment (pg. 15). Retreat from Silistria (pg. 15). General Weisman killed (pg. 15-16). Russians repass the Danube (pg. 16). State and inaction of both armies (pg. 16-17). Latter campaign in Bulgaria (pg. 17). Turks defeated in different engagements (pg. 17). Attempt upon Varna; the Russians repulsed (pg. 17-18). Siege of Silistria; brave defence; the siege raised, and the Russians again obliged to repass the Danube (pg. 18). Hossein Bey (pg. 18-19). War in the Crimea (pg. 19-20). Russian operations in the Levant; alliance and connection with Ali Bey and the Chiek Daher; unsuccessful attempts: conduct with respect to the Venetians; observations on the Mediterranean War (pg. 20-22).
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HISTORY OF EUROPE: CHAPTER I
Death of the Grand Signior, Mustapha III (pg. 3). His character (pg. 3). Accession of his brother (pg. 3-4). Preparations for carrying on the war (pg. 4). Insurrections excited by the Porte among the Tartars in the Russian Empire (pg. 4-5). Armament for the Crimea (pg. 5). State of the armies on the Danube (pg. 5). Marshal Romanzow crosses that river (pg. 5-6). Turks defeated in various engagements (pg. 6). Disorder, mutiny, and desertion in the Turkish armies (pg. 6). Grand Vizir abandoned, and invested at Schumla (pg. 6-7). Proposes a suspension of arms; obliged to sign a Peace, upon the terms prescribed by the conquerors (pg. 7). Consternation at the Porte; the peace confirmed (pg. 7). Principal articles of the peace (pg. 7-8). Grand Vizir dies suddenly on the road to Adrianople (pg. 8). Rejoicings at Petersburgh (pg. 8-9). The articles fulfilled with good faith, and ambassadors appointed on both sides (pg. 9-10). Minister appointed by the Porte, to Kerim Kan, one of the despots of Persia (pg. 10).
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HISTORY OF EUROPE: CHAPTER IV
1768
Siege of Cracow (pg. 20). The confederates desire a capitulation, which is refused by the Russian Generals (pg. 20-21). The city at length taken by storm (pg. 21-22). Deplorable state of the country (pg. 22). Insurrection of the Greek peasants at Mozyr in Lithuania (pg. 22-23). A new irruption of the Haydamacks into the Ukraine; and a second insurrection of the peasants in that country (pg. 23). Town of Zwaniec plundered and burnt by the Turks (pg. 23-24). Several confederacies formed in Lithuania (pg. 24). Strange conduct of the confederates in that dutchy; those of Ocszmania invest Prince Radzivil, and are themselves surrounded and taken by the Russians (pg. 24-25). Motions of the Turks and Tartars (pg. 25). Manifestos dispersed by the confederates (pg. 25). The Russians form lines upon the frontiers (pg. 25-26).
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