Feb 9
Warfare and the consolidation of the European state system
key terms:
fiscal-military state; War of the Spanish Succession; asiento;
Hanoverians; Robert Walpole; blue water vs. continental strategy;
Admiral Vernon; Silesia; War of the Austrian Succession
the
fiscal-military state
I. keeping
France in check
War of the League of
Augsburg 1689-1697 [W&K, 15]
Battles of the Boyne
and Aughrim Hill
War of the Spanish
Succession 1701-1713 [W&K, 15-16]
Treaty of Utrecht 1713
asiento
II. Russian
supremacy in the Baltic
Peter the Great
St. Petersburg
the Great Northern
War 1700-1721 [W&K, 81]
III.
emergence of Great Britain as the preeminent maritime power
Hanoverian succession
House of Hanover
the Whigs; Robert
Walpole
British history
Act of Union 1707
the 15 and the 45
penal laws
IV.
diplomatic interlude
the balance of power
Treaty of Utrecht: Art. VI. "Whereas the
most destructive flame of War which is to be extinguished
by this Peace, arose chiefly from hence, that the Security and Libertys
of Europe could by no means bear the Union of the Kingdoms of France
and
Spain under one and the same King: And whereas it has at length been
brought
to pass by the Assistance of the Divine Power, upon the most earnest
instances
of her Sacred Majesty of Great Britain, and with the Consent of both
the
most Christian [i.e. French] and of the Catholic [i.e. Spanish] King,
that
this evil should in all times to come be obviated, by means of
Renunciations
drawn in the most effectual Form, and executed in the most solemn
Manner,
the Tenor whereof is as follows."
Walpole and Cardinal
Fleury
blue water strategy
Robert Walpole 1676-1745
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Cardinal Fleury 1653-1743
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V.
the War
of the Austrian succession 1739-1748
War of Jenkins Ear
Robert Jenkins
James Oglethorpe and
the founding of Georgia colony
War of the
Austrian Succession
Charles VI and
the Pragmatic Sanction
Maria Theresa
Battle of
Dettingen 1743
Treaty of
Aix-la-Chapelle 1748
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Britain (Stuart/Hanover)
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France (Bourbon)
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Austria (Habsburg)
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Prussia (Hohenzollern)
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Russia (Romanov)
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1640s
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[Cromwell 1649-1660]
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Louis XIV (1643-1715) |
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Frederick William Elector
(1640-88) |
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1650s
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Leopold I (1658-1705) |
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1660s
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Charles II (1660-1685) |
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1670s
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1680s
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James II (1685-1688)
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1690s
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Wm & Mary (1689-1702)
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Peter the Great
(1689-1725) |
1700s
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Anne (1702-1714)
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Joseph I (1705-1711)
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Frederick III (1701-13)
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1710s
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George I (1714-1727) |
Louis XV (1715-1774) |
Charles II (1711-1740)
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Frederick William I
(1713-1740)
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1720s
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George II (1727-1760) |
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1730s
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1740s
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Maria Theresa (1740-1780) |
Frederick II (1740-1786) |
Elizabeth (1741-1762)
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1750s
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1760s
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George III (1760-1820)
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Catherine the Great
(1762-1796) |
1770s
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Louis XVI (1775-1789) |
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1780s
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Joseph II (1780-1790) |
Frederick William
(1786-1797) |
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1790s
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Paul I (1796-1801) |