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	Knowledge King - Great Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Great Britain is an island located in the north Atlantic Ocean to the northwest of continental Europe, comprising the main territory of the United Kingdom.
		The term Great Britain is most commonly used in a sense that includes both the main island and its outliers such as Anglesey, the Isle of Wight, the Hebrides, the Orkney Islands and the Shetland Islands.
		The term Great Britain was first widely used during the reign of King James VI of Scotland, I of England to describe the island, on which co-existed two separate kingdoms ruled over by the same monarch.
	www.knowledgeking.net /encyclopedia/g/gr/great_britain.html (732 words)

	George (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)
		King of Great Britain and Ireland and Hanover from 1820 to 1830.
		King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820.
		King of Great Britain and Elector of Hanover from 1727 to 1760 (1683-1760).
	www.hyperdic.net /dic/george.htm (309 words)

	George III of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George III (George William Frederick) (4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain, and King of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until 1 January 1801, and thereafter King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death.
		In Great Britain, George III used the official style "George the Third, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc." In 1801, when Great Britain united with Ireland, George III took the opportunity to drop his claim to the French Throne.
		Dukes in the Peerage of Great Britain
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_III_of_the_United_Kingdom (4456 words)

	George II of Great Britain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George II (George Augustus) (10 November 1683–25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and Archtreasurer and Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death.
		Great Britain, Hanover and Prussia were thus pitted against many major European powers, including Austria, Russia, France, Sweden and Saxony.
		In Great Britain, George II used the official style "George the Second, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc." In some cases (especially in treaties), the formula "Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Archtreasurer and Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire" was added before the phrase "etc."
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_II_of_Great_Britain (2444 words)

	The Kingdom of King James VI & I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		King James was the first to call his island kingdom, "Great Britain".
		Great Britain consists of England, Scotland, and Wales.
		This was of course altered in 1922 to "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" with the establishment of the Irish Free State.
	www.jesus-is-lord.com /kjkingdo.htm (316 words)

	United Kingdom / Great Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Great Britain is the term used for the island containing the contiguous nations¹ of England, Scotland and Wales.
		Great Britain is used to distinguish Britain from Brittania Minor, or Brittany, in France.
		The term "Great Britain" was officially used only after King James I (who was also James VI of Scotland) acceded to the throne of England and Wales in 1603, styling himself King of Great Britain, although legislative union between Scotland and England did not take place until 1707.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /home/scotland/britain.html (432 words)

	List of British monarchs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (The UK after the Irish Free State was formed and became a separate kingdom in the 1920s).
		In 1328, on the death of the French king, Charles IV, Edward III (nephew of the Charles IV) claimed the French throne.
		For clarity and because the 'United' is far more strongly associated with the later name United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland produced in the Act of Union 1800, the 1707 kingdom is generally referred to as the Kingdom of Great Britain.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/list_of_british_monarchs (1004 words)

	thePeerage.com - Person Page 10139
		Sophie Dorothea Prinzessin von der Pfalz was the daughter of Friedrich V von der Pfalz, King of Bohemia and Elizabeth Stuart, Princess of England.
		Frederik II Oldenburg, King of Denmark was the son of Christian III Oldenburg, King of Denmark and Dorothea von Sachsen-Lauenburg.
		Charles II Stuart, King of Great Britain was the son of Charles I Stuart, King of Great Britain and Henrietta Maria de Bourbon.
	www.thepeerage.com /p10139.htm (2231 words)

	George II of Great Britain
		King George II (November 10, 1683 - October 25, 1760 - reigned June 11, 1727 - October 25, 1760) was the second Hanoverian king of Great Britain; previously he was the Prince of Wales.
		He arrived in Britain as Prince of Wales in 1714, when his father acceded to the throne on the death of Queen Anne, as George I of Great Britain.
		George II is remembered as the last King of Britain to lead his own troops onto the battlefield, which he did at the Battle of Dettingen.
	usapedia.com /g/george-ii-of-great-britain.html (627 words)

	The Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
		The eldest son of a monarch is from birth Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Great Steward of Scotland.
		The children of a sovereign, the children of his/her sons and the oldest son of the oldest son of a Prince of Wales are Royal Highness, Prince/Princess of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
		The great-grandchildren of King George V are styled Lord/lady Windsor.
	www.nettyroyal.nl /britain.html (888 words)

	George VI, king of Great Britain and Ireland. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		George VI, king of Great Britain and Ireland.
		(Albert Frederick Arthur George), 1895–1952, king of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1936–52), second son of George V; successor of his elder brother, Edward VIII.
		A tour of Australia and New Zealand, scheduled for 1949, was postponed indefinitely because of the king’s illness at the end of 1948.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ge/Georg6GB.html (273 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents: Paristreaty 1763
		In the East Indies Great Britain shall restore to France, in the condition they are now in, the different factories which that Crown possessed, as well as on the coast of Coromandel and Orixa as on that of Malabar, as also in Bengal, at the beginning of the year 1749.
		GEORGE R. GEORGE the Third, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Lunenbourg, ArchTreasurer, and Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, andc.
		DON CARLOS, by the grace of God, King of Castille, of Leon, of Arragon, of the two Sicilies, of Jerusalem, of Navarre, of Granada, of Toledo, of Valencia, of Galicia, of Majorca, of Seville, of Sardinia, of Cordova, of Corsica, of Murcia, of Jaen, of the Algarves.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/D/1751-1775/7yearswar/paris.htm (1347 words)

	thePeerage.com - Person Page 10097
		George II Augustus Hanover, King of Great Britain was the son of George I Louis Hanover, King of Great Britain and Sophie Dorothea Herzogin von Braunschweig-Lüneburg.
		He was crowned King of Great Britain on 11 October 1727 at Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, and styled 'King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, Elector of Hanover, Defender of the Faith.
		Frederick Louis Hanover, Prince of Wales was the son of George II Augustus Hanover, King of Great Britain and Wilhelmine Charlotte Karoline Prinzessin von Brandenburg-Ansbach.
	www.thepeerage.com /p10097.htm (2201 words)

	George IV, king of Great Britain and Ireland. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		George IV, king of Great Britain and Ireland.
		1762–1830, king of Great Britain and Ireland (1820–30), eldest son and successor of George III.
		As regent and as king, George was hated for his extravagance and dissolute habits, and he aroused particular hostility by an unsuccessful attempt, immediately after his accession (1820) to the throne, to divorce his long-estranged wife, Caroline.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ge/Georg4GB.html (321 words)

	Descendants of George III of Great Britain
		George Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales, reigned as King George IV of Great Britain and Hanover (1762-1830).
		William Henry, Duke of Clarence, reigned as King William IV of Great Britain and Hanover (1765-1837).
		Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, reigned as King Ernest of Hanover (1771-1851).
	www.people.virginia.edu /~jlc5f/charlotte/genealogy1.html (196 words)

	MSN Encarta - George I (of Great Britain and Ireland)
		George I (of Great Britain and Ireland) (1660-1727), king of Great Britain (1714-1727) and elector of Hannover (1698-1727), first of the Hannoverian line of British rulers (see House of Hannover).
		George was born in Osnabrück, Hannover (now part of Germany), the son of Ernest Augustus, elector of Hannover, and Sophia, granddaughter of King James I of England.
		Their sound administrative skills strengthened the position of the house of Hannover in Great Britain.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552011/George_I_(of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland).html (335 words)

	United Kingdom
		The United Kingdom, consisting of Great Britain (England, Wales, and Scotland) and Northern Ireland, is twice the size of New York State.
		In England, the great poverty and discontent caused by the war were intensified by the Black Death, a plague that reduced the population by about one-third.
		King Edward VIII succeeded to the throne on Jan. 20, 1936, at his father's death, but he abdicated on Dec. 11, 1936 (in order to marry an American divorcée, Wallis Warfield Simpson), in favor of his brother, who became George VI.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0108078.html (2682 words)

	AllRefer.com - George II, king of Great Britain and Ireland (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		George II (George Augustus), 1683–1760, king of Great Britain and Ireland (1727–60), son and successor of George I. Though devoted to Hanover, of which he was elector, George was more active in the English government than his father had been.
		Caroline of Ansbach (whom he married in 1705), through the subtle influence she exerted over him, furthered the ascendancy of the great Whig minister, Sir Robert Walpole.
		However, just as George had quarreled with his father over personal matters, so Frederick Louis, prince of Wales, was strongly at odds with the king and became nominal head of the opposition group that ousted Walpole in 1742.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/Georg2GB.html (415 words)

	thePeerage.com - Person Page 10078
		Oskar Frederik Vilhelm Olaf Gustaf VI Adolf Bernadotte, King of Sweden was the son of Oskar Gustaf V Adolf Bernadotte, King of Sweden and Sophie Marie Viktoria Prinzessin von Baden.
		George III William Frederick Hanover, King of Great Britain was the son of Frederick Louis Hanover, Prince of Wales and Auguste Prinzessin von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg.
		He was crowned King of Great Britain on 22 September 1761 at Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England, and styled 'King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, Elector of Hanover, Defender of the Faith.
	www.thepeerage.com /p10078.htm (3046 words)

	21ST GENERATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He was married to Alexandra of DENMARK Queen of England (daughter of King Christian IX of DENMARK and Princess Louisa of HESSE-CASSEL Queen of Denmark) on 10 Mar 1863 in St.George's Chapel, Windsor.
		Albert Edward Victor of CLARENCE Duke of Clarence was born in 1864 in England - son of Edward VII.
		King George V of ENGLAND King of Great Britain.
	home.att.net /~hamiltonclan/hamilton/gilbert/d4954.htm (227 words)

	George III, King of Great Britain
		The Peace of Paris (1763) ended the Seven Years' War with France, with the strenuous, anti-French policies of the elder Pitt emphasizing naval superiority in the colonial warfare.
		Great Britain emerged from the conflict as the world's greatest colonial power.
		A second Act of Union was passed in 1801, bringing Ireland under the umbrella of Great Britain until the Government of Ireland Act (1920) established the modern arrangement.
	laughtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/kings/george_iii_1760.html (866 words)

	King v The Great Britain-China Centre [1991] IRLR 513
		There was a difference in race - King was Chinese and the other applicants shortlisted for the position were all white.
		King had shown that her application and qualifications met with the criteria initially requested in the advertisement.
		The ET were entitled to take into account the evidence in respect of both the number of Chinese people entering the recruitment process in question and the levels of Chinese staff within the GB-China Centre.
	www.cre.gov.uk /legal/direct/case_005king.html (808 words)

	AllRefer.com - George VI, king of Great Britain and Ireland (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		George VI, king of Great Britain and Ireland, British And Irish History, Biographies
		George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George), 1895–1952, king of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1936–52), second son of George V; successor of his elder brother, Edward VIII.
		During World War II the king worked to keep up British morale by visiting bombed areas, inspecting war plants, and touring theaters of war action.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/Georg6GB.html (372 words)

	Trenches on the Web - Bio: King George V of Great Britain and Ireland
		King George V of Great Britain and Ireland
		George Frederick Ernest Albert, better known as King George V, was the king of Britain during World War I. He was born in 1865 as second son of King Edward VII and the grandson of Queen Victoria.
		Together they had five children who held court: King Edward VIII; Albert, Duke of York, later King George VI (upon Edward's abdication); the Duke of Gloucester; the Duke of Kent; and Mary, Countess of Harewood.
	www.worldwar1.com /biokingg.htm (255 words)

	Federalist No. 69
		The person of the king of Great Britain is sacred and inviolable; there is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable; no punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution.
		The king of Great Britain and the governor of New York have at all times the entire command of all the militia within their several jurisdictions.
		There is evidently a great inferiority in the power of the President, in this particular, to that of the British king; nor is it equal to that of the governor of New York, if we are to interpret the meaning of the constitution of the State by the practice which has obtained under it.
	www.utulsa.edu /law/classes/rice/constitutional/FedPapers/Fed69.htm (1888 words)

	George II (1683-1760), king of Great Britain and Ireland (1727-1760)
		Son of George I, George II was the last British king to lead his troops in battle.
		The second Jacobite Revolt (the 45), forced Britain to withdraw troops from the continent, although the Jacobites were eventually beaten back into Scotland by George II's third son, the duke of Cumberland, who inflicted a final defeat on them at Culloden (16 April 1746).
		He was forced to accept William Pitt the Elder as effective commander in chief, and by the time of George's death, he had withdrawn from active politics, a landmark in the develop of the constitution.
	www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/people_george2.html (263 words)

	George III, king of Great Britain and Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		George III, 1738–1820, king of Great Britain and Ireland (1760–1820); son of Frederick Louis, prince of Wales, and grandson of George II, whom he succeeded.
		George III, king of Great Britain and Ireland: Early Reign - Early Reign After his father's early death (1751), young George was educated for his future role as...
		George III, king of Great Britain and Ireland: England in the Reign of George III - England in the Reign of George III Before George died in 1820 the fabric of English life had been...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0820545.html (428 words)

	AUE: Britain/Great Britain/United Kingdom &c: Some Common Confusions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A geographical term referring to the islands off the north-west coast of continental Europe, including the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, groups such as the outer and inner Hebrides, Shetlands and Orkneys, and countless others.
		The southernmost islands are the Channel Islands (though these are not universally regarded as belonging to the group), and the northernmost the Shetlands.
		Whilst generally speaking it is the Roman Catholics who are in favour of a merger with the Irish Republic, and the Protestants who desire a continuation of the union with Britain, it is advisable to use the terms "Nationalist" and "Unionist" respectively as the most neutral terms for the two bodies of opinion.
	www.alt-usage-english.org /english_british_uk_et_al.shtml (1311 words)

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