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  • In A-H the two parts had almost complete autonomy: A common Ministerial Council ruled the common government: it comprised the three ministers for the joint responsibilities joint finance, military, and foreign policy, the two prime ministers, some Archdukes and the monarch.

    Daimnation!: The Canadian Constitution: A political fantasy 2006

  • Stars might come loose, Prime Ministers be knighted, Archdukes restored, towns swallowed up by earthquakes, together with all other forms of catastrophe, so long as Jack Muskham could blend St. Simon on Speculum with the right dashes of Hampton and Bend Or; or, in accordance with a more original theory of his own, could get old

    Flowering Wilderness 2004

  • Spaine, France and Ireland, defenders of the faith, Archdukes of

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • If, alternatively, the Grande Armée held its present ground indefinitely, the future held scarcely brighter prospects; the Archdukes Charles and John were already amidst the Alps en route for the Danube theater, and in due course Napoleon might well find himself between two formidable fires, the Russians and the Prussians on one side, the 90,000 Austrians from Italy and the Tyrol on the other.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • If, alternatively, the Grande Armée held its present ground indefinitely, the future held scarcely brighter prospects; the Archdukes Charles and John were already amidst the Alps en route for the Danube theater, and in due course Napoleon might well find himself between two formidable fires, the Russians and the Prussians on one side, the 90,000 Austrians from Italy and the Tyrol on the other.

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • The celebrated Wansvietten, her physician, went daily, to visit the young imperial family, and afterwards to Maria Theresa, and gave the most minute details respecting the health of the Archdukes and Archduchesses, whom she herself sometimes did not see for eight or ten days at a time.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • As we were not Archdukes, we had our Hades lighted only by a pound of short sixteens.

    A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie

  • Jaurès, who was worth more to France and to Europe than ten army corps and a hundred Archdukes.

    New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Various

  • Archdukes, creatures in the pay of England, persons jealous of the descendants of immigrant Germans.

    The Prussian Mind 1917

  • Netherlands, or United Provinces, from the southern provinces, and ruined for two centuries the port of Antwerp, there was a short respite, under the wise rule of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella

    Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day Emile Cammaerts 1915

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