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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II.

CHAPTER IV
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The duke continued deaf to all his addresses.
TRANSACTIONS in HUNGARY and CATALONIA.
France had been alike successful in her intrigues at the courts of Rome and Constantinople.

The vizier at the Porte had been converted into a pensionary and creature of Louis; but the war in which the Turks had been so long and unsuccessfully engaged, rendered him so odious to the people, that the grand seignor deposed him in order to appease their clamours.

The English and Dutch ambassadors at Constantinople forthwith renewed their mediation for a peace with the emperor; but the terms they proposed were still rejected with disdain.

In the meantime general Heusler, who commanded the imperialists at Transylvania, reduced the fortresses of Jeno and Villaguswar.

In the beginning of July the duc de Croy assumed the chief command of the German army, passed the Danube and the Saave, and invested Belgrade.


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