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• The next year the death of the emperor Joseph brought the archduke Charles to the imperial throne.
• One might an archduke kill, another a handsome president. The Morality of Physics 101 - an elective
• ‡ Sarajevo was the site of the assassination in 1914 of Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand, which sparked World War I. 2 Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Four months later, in June, the assassination of an archduke in the Balkans led to World War I, which has also been called “the Third Balkan War.” Bloodlust
• In April 1701 an Austrian Habsburg army invaded Lombardy, bent on conquering Milan for the archduke Charles, Leopold's second son.
• French lives for the sole apparent use of giving an Austrian archduke the opportunity "to play at clemency" (de faire de la clemence). Maximilian in Mexico
• When Mantua fell, and Austria saw herself driven from Italy, she had called her ablest general, the Archduke Charles, from the Rhine, and given him an army of over one hundred thousand men to lead against Bonaparte. The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte
• It may not be a money-spinner - conventional hoteliers would balk at the thought of changing the flowers or turning paying guests away on a whim - but if archdukes are sleeping in your bedrooms and Sean Connery's in the bar, who cares?
• In 1469 he bought the landgraviate of Alsace and the countship of Ferrette from the archduke Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• If Philippe refused this offer - if France opted for the existing partition agreement - then the entire inheritance would automatically be offered to archduke Charles, second son of emperor Leopold.