The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . THE FRENCH WARS OF Arms of the Chur-Pfaltz. ETURNING ONCEmore to Europe, it isfound that when event-ually France, under therule of Louis XIV, be-came the political and in-^tellectual leader ofEurope, a policy wasinaugurated whereby herborders were extended eastward at Germanys ex-pense. The royal power was asserted by the king,who, aide
The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . THE FRENCH WARS OF Arms of the Chur-Pfaltz. ETURNING ONCEmore to Europe, it isfound that when event-ually France, under therule of Louis XIV, be-came the political and in-^tellectual leader ofEurope, a policy wasinaugurated whereby herborders were extended eastward at Germanys ex-pense. The royal power was asserted by the king,who, aided by Alazarin, used it to further his ambi-tions and unjust plans of aggrandizement. Thus itbecame possible for him to maintain his wars of con-quest in Holland, devastate Wiirtemberg and thePalatinate, occupy the city of Strasburg, and event-ually detach Alsace and Lorraine. In this course of rapine and murder upon Germansoil, the French were neither opposed by the German 144 ^^^^ Pennsylvania-German Society. emperor Leopold, nor by England, which was thenrent by internal dissension. In justice to the em-peror, it may be said that at that critical period hewas even harder pushed in the far east by the Turks,whose triumphant advance was only checked underthe walls of Vien
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