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6 days ago · Historian's Curiosity. Leopold I. 2024.07.02. Leopold I was emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1640-1705). His reign was long, from 1658 to 1705. During this period, he had to fight severely against France and the Ottoman Empire. He withstood the second siege of Vienna and managed to isolate France. On the other hand, he attempted to carry out ...
3 days ago · The youngest son of Francis, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Leopold took a commission in the Imperial Russian Army and fought against Napoleon after French troops overran Saxe-Coburg during the Napoleonic Wars.
4 days ago · The elder of the two, Leonidas II, was said to be in love with wealth, luxury, and a foreign woman. All, supposedly, not very Spartan. In contrast, the 20-year-old Agis IV publicly rejected luxury in favor of traditional Spartan dress and austere virtues ( Plutarch, Agis, 4.1).
Jun 30, 2024 · Leopold I was Holy Roman Emperor and King in Germany for a time during the last part of the 17th Century and the first few years of the 18th Century. His long reign included the prosecution of a handful of European wars. He was born on June 9, 1640, in Vienna.
Jun 27, 2024 · Aware enough to see he was under threat, Emperor Leopold I called upon the Holy League (a group of friendly Christian states formed for the express purpose of resisting the Ottomans) for help.
Jun 29, 2024 · Leopold I was a prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal and reformer and inventor of the iron ramrod; he founded the old Prussian military system that, generally unchanged until 1806, enabled Frederick II the Great to propel Prussia to the position of a European power.
Jun 26, 2024 · Leopold I was the first King of Belgium, ruling for more than three decades in the 19th Century. He was born on Dec. 16, 1790, at Ehrenburg Palace, in Coburg, in the duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, which is now in Germany but was then in the Holy Roman Empire.
