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  • President called our Legations home and dismissed the foreign

    Eurasia Christopher Evans 1882

  • Bologna and Ferrara, known as the "Legations," the inhabitants still remembered the time of their independence, and chafed under the irritating restraints of Papal rule.

    The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898

  • Languedoc, or in the 'Legations' of the Papal territory.

    Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • Ay, I did get it; and somehow, across my brain flashed a vision of all I had ever read and heard of the siege of the Legations at

    CHAPTER XLIX 2010

  • The revolutionaries seized Avignon and papal possessions in France in 1791; the northernmost Legations in Italy were taken in 1796; two years later in 1798 the Papal States themselves fell to the armies of the First French Republic and Pius VI taken prisoner, dying in exile the next year.

    Archive 2008-09-21 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • The revolutionaries seized Avignon and papal possessions in France in 1791; the northernmost Legations in Italy were taken in 1796; two years later in 1798 the Papal States themselves fell to the armies of the First French Republic and Pius VI taken prisoner, dying in exile the next year.

    Fall of the Papal States de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • I guess I shall run up hard against the British Legations in

    Greenmantle 2005

  • After the defeat of Austria, Italy would be organized as a federation of four states with the pope as president— (1) an upper Italian kingdom of Piedmont, Lombardy, Venetia, Parma, Modena, and the Papal Legations; (2) a central kingdom of Tuscany with Umbria and the Marches; (3) Rome; (4) the kingdom of Naples.

    1852, Oct 2001

  • Foreign Affairs to the various Belgian Legations concerned, with instructions to communicate the same to the powers as soon as said

    The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Various

  • Legations should have received telegraphic orders to do so:

    The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Various

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