. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. completed in Opusculos Legales of Alfonso werepublished by the Royal Academy of Ma-drid in 1836. ALFONSO XII., King of Spain, theonly son of Queen Isabella II. and hercousin, Francis of Assisi, was born Nov. ALFONSO 113 ALFRED THE GREAT 28, 1857. He left Spain with his motherwhen she was driven from the throne bythe revolution of 1868, and till 1874 re-sided partly in France, partly in 1874 Alfonso came forward himselfas claimant to the Spanish throne
. Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps. completed in Opusculos Legales of Alfonso werepublished by the Royal Academy of Ma-drid in 1836. ALFONSO XII., King of Spain, theonly son of Queen Isabella II. and hercousin, Francis of Assisi, was born Nov. ALFONSO 113 ALFRED THE GREAT 28, 1857. He left Spain with his motherwhen she was driven from the throne bythe revolution of 1868, and till 1874 re-sided partly in France, partly in 1874 Alfonso came forward himselfas claimant to the Spanish throne, andin the end of the year was proclaimedby Gen. Martinez Campos as king. Hewas enthusiastically received, most ofthe Spaniards being by this time tiredof the Republican Government, whichhad failed to put down the Carlist was successful in bringing theCarlist struggle to an end in 1876, andafter an uneventful reign died in 1885. ALFONSO XIII., King of Spain, sonof the late Alphonso XII. and MariaChristina, daughter of the late KarlFerdinand, Archduke of Austria, bornafter his fathers death, May 17, ALFONSO XIII., KING OF SPAIN His mother was made Queen Regent dur-ing his minority. In Spain the sovereigncomes of age at 16, hence on May 17,1902, the regency ceased and AlfonsoXIII. assumed his full powers, after be-ing crowned with the usual elaborateceremonies. He was married to PrincessEna of Battenberg in 1906. An anar-chist attempt was made to kill the royalpair on their wedding day. In the Euro-pean War, King Alfonso favored theAllies, though, of course, adhering offi-cially to his countrys neutrality. He de-voted his time and efforts to the improve-ment of the conditions of prisoners ofwar and of the civil population of war-stricken regions. ALFRED THE GREAT, King of theWest Saxons, was born at Wantage, Berkshire, in 849, and in 853 was takento Rome. The fifth and youngest son ofKing Ethelwulf, he succeeded to thecrown in 871, on the death of his brothe
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