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The End for some

 
The alarmingly insane Christian VII
was unfit to rule his long reign (ov)
x (x)
Stanislaw August, last Polish king
got his kingdom split by three 1795
x
Louis XVI lost his crown and head
here approving a secr signed document
by a "bon sign" jointly with Montbarey (hr)
 

The French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars

 
Louis Stanislav Xavier, assumed title
King in 1795 upon his nephew´s death.
Louis XVIII ruled 1814-15,1815-24 (hr)
The Committee of Public Safety ran the
Revolution from 1793 to 1795...and
Carnot was its architect! story, ov
Talleyrand, the influencial Foriegn minister of
both the Directory and the Empire, also briefly
premier in 1814 and the Kingsmaker of the era
 
Napoleon Bonaparte
here his short "Nap" signature (hr)
Napoleron´s brother Joseph Bonaparte
ruled northern Italy and then Spain(ov)
Louis Bonaparte, brother and dompteur
of the Assembly and the Dutch Kingdom
 
the youngest brother, Jerome Bonaparte
was granted the Westphalian Kingdom ov
Napoleonic Marshal Joachim Murat
became son-in-law and King of Naples
The Napoleonic Marshal Bernadotte
became swedish Carl XIV Johan (ov)
 
Gustaf IV Adolf lost Finland to Russia;
his anti-French stand brought a coup
Carl XIII, brother of Gustaf III, gained
power in 1809 and adopted Bernadotte
Carl XIII writing a personal letter ov
of "well emballaged" persuation
 
Louis-Philippe, Duc d´Orléans, writes to Lafayette
and "Waterloo" Wellington to an unknown (hr)
Czar Alexander I was architect of the
Holy Alliance "liberating" Europe (a4,hr)
Bavarian King Maximilian´s francophili
earned him both lands and crown (cont)
 
Lord Castlereagh coordinated all the
British efforts against Napoleon (lts)
The alarmingly insane Christian VII
was unfit to rule his long reign (ov)
Danish King Frederik VI lost Norway
in 1814 due to his Napoleonic alliance
 
King George IV fought the French
in his father´s name from 1810 (con)
British premier Addington /Sidmouth
unable to conduct the Napoleonic War
Montgelas was the talented minister
behind King Maximilian´s strategy
 

Unrest and uprise
in Europe

 
The bête noire of liberal historians
Czar Nikolai I repressed leaving the
upcoming revolution as the only choise! (ov)
The "bourgeois" king Louis-Philippe
installed and removed by Revolutions
signing (lts) with his premier Guizot
Cavaignac crushed the 1848 Revolt
and was given sweeping powers to
protect the Assembly from the people
 
British reformer Henry Brougham,
British reformer Brougham,
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King Edward VII (ov) and Gladstone (ov)
x
revolutions; Brit pm:s Canning and Peel
Louis-Philippe writes to Lafayette (c),
and Hungarian Lajos Kossuth heads a
revolutionary Hungarian Republic 1849
 
No one expected "Silly Billy" to rule
so training of Willian IV was poor (lts)
King Francesco ruled the Two Sicilies
in southern Italy 1825-30
Christian VIII ruled Denmark 1839-48
and was also Norwegian King in 1814
 
 

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