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Chapter XVIII — The Affairs of Europe, from the Establishment of the Hanoverian Succession in England, to the year 1740

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Chapter XVIII — The Affairs of Europe, from the Establishment of the Hanoverian Succession in England, to the year 1740

The Affairs of Europe, from the Establishment of the Hanoverian Succession in England, to the year 1740.

CHAPTER XVIII: Walpole

George I., king of England, died in 1727; but his death made no change in the politics of the cabinet, Sir Robert Walpole continuing at the…

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