Finally Jutland was invaded and conquered, and Van Moltke was already preparing for a landing in Fuenen when Christian IX gave up all the duchies by the Vienna preliminaries (August 1st), confirmed by treaty on October 30th following.
This was abolished in 1858, and afterwards the Danes sought to grant complete autonomy to the duchies of Schleswig and Lauenburg, this movement being with the purpose of making more complete the union of Schleswig with their country.
It was not the original intention to go beyond the borders of the duchies and invade Denmark, but when Christian IX tried to resist the invasion this was done.
Napoleon III at this juncture proposed the holding of a congress for settling the duchies question and that of federal reform.
It was not until 1866 that the Treaty of Vienna definitely assigned the future of the duchies to the Powers.
Prussia and Austria and Denmark were whirled in a maelstrom of incessant warfare concerning the duchies of Schleswig-Holstein.
Some of the very elements which had contributed most to the upbuilding of his great empire with its dependent kingdoms and duchies were in the long run elements of weakness and instability--vital causes of its eventual downfall.
The Hundred Years' War had finally freed the western duchies and counties from English control.
After the division of the Empire of Charlemagne the Belgian counties and duchies found themselves plunged in the throes of feudal disputes and divided between the Kings of France and the Emperors of Germany.
The history of the relations of Denmark and the Duchies to the Romano-Germanic Empire is a very small part of the great Schleswig-Holstein controversy.
Po, and founded the duchies of Spoleto and Benevento, leaving the rest of the country to be governed by the exarch of Ravenna as viceroy of the Eastern crown.
On the Relations to the Empire of the Kingdom of Denmark and the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein 398 NOTE C.
Because Barbarossa had overrun Lombardy with a Transalpine host they fancied themselves entitled to demand duchies for themselves and their relatives, and to entangle the Empire in wars wherein no interest but their own was involved.
Duchies of Parma, Modena and Romagna, transferred to, iii.
Lords Palmerston and John Russell asked for further powers during the Recess, and recommended that we should give an opinion in favour of annexation of duchies to Sardinia.
Prince Metternich declared that Austria kept her Army ready because she could not permit either the military occupation of the Duchies by Sardinia or their annexation to that kingdom.
France and Austria should both agree not to interfere in Italy--France withdrawing her troops from Rome, and Sardinia to be asked not to send any troops into the Duchies until there has been a final vote expressive of their wishes.
Footnote 27: The dispute as to the Duchiesof Schleswig and Holstein.
After the peace of Villafranca, he was chosen dictator of the duchies of Parma and Modena, and was mainly instrumental in inducing them to unite with the Piedmontese monarchy.
French corps under Prince Napoleon had a political mission in the duchies of middle Italy; one division of this corps, however, followed the main army.
Different rumours went about: the Prince Consort was informed that Savoy was to go for Lombardy, and Nice for Venetia; others said that Nice was to be the price of the Duchies and Legations.
The annexation of the Duchies to Piedmont will be an unfathomable good for Italy at the same time as for France and for Europe.
The people of the Duchies have as much right to change their sovereigns as the English people, or the French, or the Belgian, or the Swedish.
The object nearest his heart was the union or rather reunion of Parma and Modena with Piedmont, to which those duchies had annexed themselves spontaneously in 1848.
The allies passing the Maese, took up their winter-quarters in the duchies of Limeburgh and Luxembourg; while the French cantoned their troops in the places which they had newly conquered.
As to the French troops, they shall remain in the rest of the duchies of Bremen and Verden, till the definitive reconciliation of the two sovereigns.
From him his cousin Philip the Good inherited the duchies of Brabant and Limburg and the marquisate of Antwerp.
A difficult question as to the succession to the Jülich-Cleves duchies arose at the very time of the signing of the truce, which called for delicate and wary treatment.
He met with very slight opposition, declared the duchies to be immediately dependent upon the Empire, made Vienna an imperial city, and imposed other changes upon the constitution of Austria.
War was the result, and in November 1276 Ottakar submitted to Rudolph, and renounced the duchies of Austria, Styria and Carinthia.
At this time the principle of primogeniture was unknown in the house of Habsburg, and for many years the duchies were ruled in common by two, or even three, members of the family.
At the time of the death of the emperor Maximilian in 1519 the Habsburg dominions in eastern Germany included the duchies of Upper and Lower Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola and the county of Tirol.
The duchies of Austria and Styria were now claimed by the emperor Frederick II.
For some time the three duchies were administered by Rudolph in his capacity as head of the Empire, of which they formed part.
He did something to improve the condition of the duchies by restoring order, introducing German colonists into the eastern districts, and seeking to benefit the inhabitants of the towns.
Denmark provoked a fresh crisis and revived in an acute form the question of succession to the duchies of Schleswig-Holstein.
The German Diet did not regard this arrangement as binding, and the feeling in the duchies themselves, especially in Holstein, was against the claims of Denmark.
The duchies of Hanover and Brunswick become an electorate; Ernest Augustus elector.
The War of the Polish Succession which now disturbed Europe is only important in Italian history because the treaty of Vienna in 1738 settled the disputed affairs of the duchies of Parma and Tuscany.
The duchies of Spoleto in the centre, and of Benevento in the south, inserted wedge-like into the middle of the peninsula, and enclosing independent Rome, were but loosely united to the kingdom at Pavia.
In the Austrian provinces and in the duchies it carried all before it, and gained many adherents in the Legations, Rome and Naples, although in the latter regions the autonomist feeling was still strong even among the Liberals.
Two months later Ferdinand of Naples sought for an armistice, the central duchies were easily overrun, and, early in 1797, Pope Pius VI.
They proposed to summon the Estates of Holstein, and at the same time brought the question of the Duchies before the Diet.
The Duchies were to join the Prussian Customs' Union and assimilate their system of finance with that of Prussia.
The real object of his diplomacy must be to get the Duchies offered to Prussia; it was, however, very improbable, as the Czar once said to him, that this would happen.
Prussia had the distinct advantage that she was more truly in possession of the Duchies than Austria.
He recognised that if the complaints of the Duchies led again to a war between Germany and Denmark all the loss would fall on Prussia; the coast of Prussia was exposed to the attacks of the Danish fleet.
Against this proposed separation of the two Duchies violent protests were raised, and in 1848 a rebellion broke out.
The Prussian House, in its address to the King, had declared that the only result of this policy would be to give back the Duchies to Denmark.
He wished for annexation, but he wished to have it peacefully; he had not forgotten his own resolution to have a war with Austria, but he did not wish to make the Duchies the occasion of a war.
He would have either surrendered Venetia, which was really a source of weakness, to Italy, or agreed with Prussia over the Duchies and the German problem, thereby gaining Prussian support against Italy.
He came forward with a new proposal and one which was extremely surprising, that the Estates of the Duchies should be summoned, and negotiations entered into with them.
The people of the Duchies were equally determined in their opposition to the scheme; attempts were made by Bismarck's friends and agents to get up a petition to incorporate them with Prussia, but they always failed.
Fresh threats of war ended in the conclusion of a new treaty of peace, but the question whether liege or simple homage was due for the duchies remained unsettled when the fall of Mortimer gave the young king full mastery of affairs.
Prussia received more territory on the Lower Rhine, the Duchies of Parma and Piacenza in Italy were given to Spain, and the claims of Augustus III.
Brandenburg was subjected to the same fate; the two Mecklenburg duchieswere seized as the booty of the Empire; and Wallenstein, marching on without opposition, plundered and wasted Holstein, Jutland and Pomerania.
He gave the Duchies of Mecklenburg to Wallenstein, and promised him one of the Hapsburg States in Austria; he gave him the entire disposal of all the territory he should conquer, and agreed to pay the expenses of his army.
On the 30th of October, the war was ended by the relinquishment of the Duchies to Prussia and Austria, not to Germany.
The inhabitants of the disputed Duchies were for the most part Germans, and the Danish Government had done violence to their national sentiment.
The Duchies were overrun by Prussian troops, while the Danish Navy held the sea.
Even when Otto had placed all the duchies in the hands of his own kinsmen or connections, his power was still precarious.
Within the borders of the duchies Henry had little power except as the patron of the church.
He was willing that the war should continue, in the hope that he might be able to gain a couple of duchies for his nephews.
Rudolf was the first prominent member of the family; he established its position and influence by seizing the duchies of Austria and Styria, which were to become, under his successors, the nucleus of the extensive Austrian possessions.
Just how these duchies originated is something of a mystery, but two things at least are clear which help to explain their appearance.
The duchies consequently fell repeatedly into the hands of the king, who then claimed the right to assign them to whom he wished.
Lombardy, and has let her take the duchies and Naples.
Then Prussia, which had long looked with jealousy on the power of Austria and considered a war with her inevitable sooner or later, opposed her desire to form the duchies into a separate state under the Duke of Augustenburg.
The Danes fought well, but were forced to submit and eventually the duchies were made over to their enemies.
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