Prussia

Examples

• Then Prussia declared war in support of Austria, and the allied forces, under the Duke of Brunswick, prepared to invade France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Roebling, a native of Prussia, born there in 1806, and who died in New York in 1869. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• By 1810 a new Prussia existed, the nucleus of a new Germany. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At Schladebach, in Prussia, there is one nearly a mile deep. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• We begin to read less and less of the schemes and ambitions of King This or That, and more of the Designs of France or the Ambitions of Prussia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But the amount of potash thus obtained is far too limited to supply the needs of agriculture; and to-day the main sources of potash are the vast deposits of potassium salts found in Prussia. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• About 1841 the celebrated Needle Gun was invented in Prussia, and its superiority over all muzzle-loaders was demonstrated in 1848 in the first Schleswig-Holstein war. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I have not seen the King of Prussia's posthumous works; what you mention makes me desirous to have them. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• For though it was a united Germany that had overcome French imperialism, it had Prussia in the saddle. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Unlike its three neighbours, Prussia, Russia, and the Austro-Hungarian monarchy of the Habsburgs, Poland had not developed a Grand Monarchy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the present times, if you except the king of Prussia, to accumulate treasure seems to be no part of the policy of European princes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Four years later came the next step towards the natural political map of Europe, when Napoleon III plunged into war against Prussia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It brooded upon the _Revanche_, the return match with Prussia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He tried to strike down his neighbor, Prussia--and fell. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It may have been a weakness, but if so, it was equally the weakness, I believe, of King Frederick of Prussia. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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