How To Use Archduke In A Sentence
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The next year the death of the emperor Joseph brought the archduke Charles to the imperial throne.
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One might an archduke kill, another a handsome president.
The Morality of Physics 101 - an elective
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Sarajevo was the site of the assassination in 1914 of Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand, which sparked World War I. 2
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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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
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In April 1701 an Austrian Habsburg army invaded Lombardy, bent on conquering Milan for the archduke Charles, Leopold's second son.
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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
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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
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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?
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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"
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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.
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His sudden departure from the Chapel Royal was resented by James I, who caused him to be dismissed from the archduke's chapel.
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An edict of the archduke of Austria in 1551 complained of the reprehensible activities of the Jews: “These scandalous evil actions are said to flow in good part from the fact that the Jews in numerous localities dwell and move about among the Christians without any distinguishing marks and without any difference in clothes and costume and thus cannot be distinguished from Christians nor recognized as Jews.”
Bloodlust
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The period between 1870 and 1914 witnessed intensifying nationalistic and imperial rivalries in Europe, culminating with the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand and the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
10. World History since 1550
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The Archduke Franz Ferdinand's name given to the band is also out of “time” in the Nîmes Arena!
Gradins - French Word-A-Day
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There were unpleasant scenes in the baroque antechambers of Vienna; archducal potentates lost their tempers; and Maximilian, after a hot exchange with Archduke Rainer, the President of the Council ofMinisters, quitted the city in disgust.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
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Once at a cocktail do in one of the vast reception areas where archdukes had cavorted, he languidly asked me to fetch him a canapé.
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On 28 May 1952, Karl Albrecht's widow, the Archduchess Alice, and her son, the Archduke Karl Stefan, signed an affidavit before the Public Notary in Stockholm certifying the origin and their ownership of the parure.
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The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, at Sarajevo on June 28 by a member of a secret society of Serbian nationalists provided the chance.
Armistice Day 2 0 0 5
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Indeed, the preceding year, the royal houses of Holland, Austria, and England had concluded a treaty of alliance at the Hague, with the intention of plucking the crown of Spain from the head of Philip V, and placing it on that of an archduke to whom they prematurely gave the title of Charles III.
Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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In the early part of the campaign, in Bavaria, Karl made some costly mistakes he was badly beaten by the French Emperor at Eckmühl, which eventually cost the Austrians Vienna; but the Archduke defeated Napoleon at Aspern/Essling, although he was defeated soon after at Wagram.
Karl von Habsburg
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During this long and dreadful war, the king had suffered no disaster so terrible as this, and the courtiers now declared openly that the archduke was the cause of the royal and national humiliation.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1600-1609)
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“The eagle,” said the expounder of dark sayings, “is the cognizance of our noble lord the Archduke — of his royal Grace, I would say — and the eagle flies the highest and nearest to the sun of all the feathered creation.”
The Talisman
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In 1648 he was again victorious over a Habsburg army under Archduke Leopold Wilhelm at Lens.
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Behind the archduke were his two liveried bodyguards, armed and vigilant.
Tai-Pan
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[38] If this does not mean that England was an accessory before the fact to the murder of the Archduke, what _does_ it mean?
Gems (?) of German Thought
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The archduke was a man of high-soaring ideas, chivalrous, brave even to the point of audacity, full of expedients and never daunted by failure, but he was deficient in stability of character, and always hampered throughout his life by lack of funds.
History of Holland
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On October 26th he writes thus: -- "Since the writing of my other letters, upon the resolution of the emperor and the archduke, I took occasion to go to the archduke, meaning to sound him to the bottom in all causes, and to feel whether such matter as he had uttered to me before (contained in my other letters) proceeded from him
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
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Hours later, when nearly 400 bodies had been removed from the smoldering ruin, the policeman heading the recovery operation reported to the emperor's famously tender-hearted cousin, Archduke Albrecht, "All saved, Your Imperial Highness.
Modernism's Austrian Rebels
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I have learnt the correct forms of address for archdukes and archbishops.
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For example, after the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand in 1914, the government of Austria sent an ultimatum to Serbia, which Austria held responsible for the assassination.
Ultimatum
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The Archduke's houseguests included artists, intellectuals and royalty.
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Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of the Austrian Empire, had come to Sarajevo on a state visit; Sarajevo was then in one of the South Slavic provinces of the Austrian Empire.
Sarajevo
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Eventually Archduke Otto, while remaining head of the Habsburg family, stopped using his titles.
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On returning from the review, Kutuzov took the Austrian general into his private room and, calling his adjutant, asked for some papers relating to the condition of the troops on their arrival, and the letters that had come from the Archduke Ferdinand, who was in command of the advanced army.
War and Peace
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He was commissioned by the archduke Rudolf to carry out fieldwork in Bosnia and Hercegovina, but his publications of South Slavic folklore were severely criticised by contemporary scholars.
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In the postings being released this week, one theme emerges: while the absence of any single political event would not have changed history much (if Gavrilo Princip hadn't shot Archduke Francis Ferdinand to start World War I, something else would have), the absence of certain inventions would have produced a world far different from the one we inherited.
The Power Of Big Ideas
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Charles became heir to the throne of the Austro‑Hungarian Empire on June 28, 1914, following the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand.
Charles of Austria
