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  • noun Plural form of Hanoverian.

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Examples

  • Well he was going over to the Prussians/Hanoverians who owed the British from the help in that seven years war I talked about last week.

    Lynne's Soap Wonderland, Bunnies and Postcards Elizabeth McClung 2009

  • Well he was going over to the Prussians/Hanoverians who owed the British from the help in that seven years war I talked about last week.

    Archive 2009-11-01 Elizabeth McClung 2009

  • The irony of the 18th century - as Clark has shown in his English Society 1688-1832 and The Language of Liberty - was that post-1745 and the collapse of the Jacobite threat, the Hanoverians increasingly appropriated Tory-Anglican political ideology to defend the State against the challenges posed by radicalism, by the rebellious Whigs of the North American colonies and then by the friends of the Revolution in France.

    The King across the Water Burke's Corner 2009

  • The Hanoverians were all unpopular and the precedent had been set.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Declaration of Independence and the Case for Non-Ethnic Secession: 2009

  • So if one were inclined, one could field the Allied army using nothing but Minden Miniatures British, Hanoverians and Prussians standing in for Hessians and Brunswick and Schaumburg-Lippe forces.

    Minden Miniatures - Prinz Ferdinand's Army Der Alte Fritz 2009

  • The irony of the 18th century - as Clark has shown in his English Society 1688-1832 and The Language of Liberty - was that post-1745 and the collapse of the Jacobite threat, the Hanoverians increasingly appropriated Tory-Anglican political ideology to defend the State against the challenges posed by radicalism, by the rebellious Whigs of the North American colonies and then by the friends of the Revolution in France.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Burke's Corner 2009

  • If we fail, the whole of the Commonwealth from Belarus to Brandenburg will be at the mercy of the Bolsheviks, and the Hanoverians and Bavarians will find themselves with some unpleasant new neighbors.

    DBTL 16: Of Course You Know This Means War Johnny Pez 2009

  • The position of the Jacobite Society overseas is to support the Hanoverians as a practical measure, since not doing so would have worse effects.

    URGENT The "Reform of the Reform" is in motion 2009

  • If we fail, the whole of the Commonwealth from Belarus to Brandenburg will be at the mercy of the Bolsheviks, and the Hanoverians and Bavarians will find themselves with some unpleasant new neighbors.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Johnny Pez 2009

  • So if one were inclined, one could field the Allied army using nothing but Minden Miniatures British, Hanoverians and Prussians standing in for Hessians and Brunswick and Schaumburg-Lippe forces.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Der Alte Fritz 2009

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