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Identifier: medivalmodernh00myer (find matches)
Title: Mediæval and modern history
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
Subjects: Middle Ages History, Modern World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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§ 407) DEATH OF THE KING 365 grandson of Louis XIV. The duke, a mere lad of seventeen years,assumed the bequeathed crown with the title of Philip V, andthus became the founder of the Bourbon dynasty in Spain. Thereare no longer any Pyrenees, is the way in which Louis is re-ported to have expressed his exultation over this virtual unionof France and Spain. France, through Spanish favor, might also now easily becomepowerful in the colonial world and realize her dream of a greatcolonial empire. The common danger led to the forming of a sec-ond Grand Alliance ^ against France, a main object, of which wasto eject Philip from the Spanish throne and to seat thereon anAustrian prince. For thirteen years all Europe was shaken with war.- Thestruggle was ended by the treaties of Utrecht (1713) and Rastadt(1714). By the provisions of these treaties the Bourbon princePhilip was left upon the Spanish throne, but on the conditionthat there should never be a union of the French and Spanishcrowns upo

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