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Ch. 5: The Religious Conflict Merged in the Great War, Pt. 2

In The Counter-Reformation

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Adolphus Ward

The Counter-Reformation, also called the Catholic Reformation, and remembered for its infamous Inquisition, was the period of Catholic resur…

Themistokles, Pt. 1

In Lives of Greek Statesmen

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George William Cox

In the darkest days of the Persian War when the armies of Xerxes were overrunning northern Greece, Athens faced destruction. The desperate A…

Ch. 5: The Peloponnesian War. The Sicilian Expedition, Pt. 3

In The Athenian Empire

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George William Cox

The British historian, George W. Cox writes that the "whole duration of the Athenian empire extends over little more than two generatio…

Ch. 10: 1692-1693, Pt. 1

In William the Third

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Henry Duff Traill

William Henry, Prince of Orange and Nassau, Dutch William to the English, was born in a state threatened by the military ambitions of Louis …

Ch. 11: From the Battle of Issos to the Battle of Gaugamela, Pt. 2

In Rise of the Macedonian Empire

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Arthur M. Curteis

Through diplomacy and conquest the Kingdom of Macedonia under Philip II (382-336 BC) came to dominate ancient Greece. To the classical Greek…

Ch. 2, Section 2: The Revolution at Prague (March-May 1618)

In The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648

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Samuel Rawson Gardiner

Samuel Rawson Gardiner remains a respected source on the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), which began as a civil conflict between Protestant p…

Bk. 2, Beginning of a Regeneration of Catholicism, Pt. 1: Opinions Analogous to…

In The History of the Popes During the Last Four Centuries, Volume 1

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Leopold Von Ranke

Leopold von Ranke was a German Lutheran historian and a founder of modern historical writing based on primary sources. This is a panoramic a…

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