Word: xiv
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Britain's plenipotentiaries sat down at Utrecht in 1713 to write an end to the War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War to American colonists) they despoiled France's Louis XIV of his important eastern Canada holdings except Cape Breton Island off the east end of Nova Scotia. From there French fishermen still went out to the Grand Banks and there they built a mighty fortress at Louisburg. From Nantasket, Mass, in 1746 set forth 4,000 colonists under Lieut. General William Pepperell to reduce this French threat to Anglo-Saxon supremacy...
...allowed to live in peace in Adolf Hitler's Europe. And in Hitler's Europe France faced an unknown future, blaming for the past, not Hitler, but her own people and leaders who had let slip through their fingers the heritage of Louis XIV...
...time in 352 years, Britain's Royal Navy set forth last week to meet a major challenge to Britannia's rule of the waves. Under Effingham in 1588, Britain acquired that rule by beating the Armada of Spain in the English Channel. The French Navy of Louis XIV was vanquished at La Hogue (1692). Since then four other masters of bulging European powers have forced a showdown on that rule. Under Nelson at Aboukir Bay in 1798 and at Trafalgar in 1805 Britain's fleet crushed Napoleon's dream of making France an overseas power. Under...
...Roman courtesans squinted at their reflections in polished silver, bronze. Louis XIV's mistresses had tin-and-mercury-backed mirrors at Versailles Palace...