THE HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE: WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE; AND A VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF SOCIETY, FROM THE RISE OF THE MODERN KINGDOMS TO THE PEACE OF PARIS, IN 1763; IN A SERIES OF LETTERS FROM A NOBLEMAN TO HIS SON. NEW EDITION, CONTINUED TO THE DEATH OF WILLIAM IV. OF ENGLAND. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. III. LONDON: LONGMAN, REES, & Co.; T. CADELL; J. RICHARDSON; J. M. RICHARDSON; BALDWIN A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS ΤΟ VOLUME III. PART II.-(continued.) History of Europe, from the beginning of the General War, in 1701, to the Offers of Peace made by France, in 1706, and the Union of England and The French, in violation of the treaty of Ryswick, acknowledge his son William recalls his ambassador from the court of France 1702 The lords and commons enter warmly into his resentment and views ibid. He preserved England from popery and arbitrary power, but laid the ibid. Great abilities of her ministers, Godolphin and Marlborough War is declared against France at London, the Hague, and Vienna The Imperialists on the Upper Rhine are defeated by the French Masterly movements and rapid progress of the earl of Marlborough in The fleets of England and Holland fail in an attempt upon Cadiz But capture the Spanish galleons, and take or burn a French squadron ibid. |