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  Great Britain. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Britain’s overseas possessions (see British Empire) were augmented by the victorious outcome of the War of the Spanish Succession, ratified in the Peace of Utrecht (1713).
Great political leaders of the late 18th cent., such as the earl of Chatham (see Chatham, William Pitt, 1st earl of) and his son William Pitt, could not govern in disregard of the crown.
Britain’s sometimes stormy relationship with the EU was heightened in 1996 when an outbreak of “mad cow disease” (see prion) in England led the EU to ban the sale of British beef; the crisis eased when British plans for controlling the disease were approved by the EU.
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 Genealogy of the Royal Family of Great Britain and Hanover   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
of the Belgians, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony
HRH Prince Octavius of Great Britain and Ireland, Prince of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg
HRH Prince Alfred of Great Britain and Ireland, Prince of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg
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 Alfred the Great - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alfred is noted for his defence of the kingdom against the Danish Vikings, becoming the only English King to be awarded the epithet 'the Great' (although not English, Canute the Great was another King of England given this title by the Danes).
Alfred's relations to the Celtic princes in the western half of the Britain are clearer.
A new biography of Alfred the Great by Justin Pollard was published by John Murray in 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_the_Great   (4296 words)

  
 1832-62. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
The Greek assembly proclaimed Prince Alfred of Great Britain as king, after a plebiscite.
GEORGE I, a Danish prince (17 years old), was finally chosen with the consent of the powers.
Britain ceded to Greece the Ionian Islands (under British protectorate since 1815).
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 Amazon.com: King Alfred the Great: Books: Alfred P. Smyth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
When Alfred came to power in the south of England at age 23, his grandfather, father, and four of his brothers had all been kings before him, and Anglo-Saxon society was facing its greatest challenge in the growing incursions of the Vikings and the seemingly invincible progress of the Great Army of Danes.
Alfred not only turned the tide of war, so that his sons and grandsons could eventually unite the whole of England under one king, but he was also a scholar whose writings and translations constitute a treasury of Old English prose.
Alfred's life is thoroughly examined to reveal a man of great physical stamina who had been a scholar all his life and who used his intellectual abilities, military prowess and administrative skills to change the course of English history prior to the Norman Conquest.
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 Alfred (black Prince) Sailing Ship
Launched in the autumn of 1774 as relations between the American colonies and the mother country grew increasingly tense, BLACK PRINCE was fitted out quickly so that she could load and sail for Bristol on the last day of 1774.
ALFRED was placed in commission on 3 December 1775, Capt. Dudley Saltonstall in command, and became Hopkins' flagship.The new fleet dropped down the Delaware River on 4 January 1776; but a cold snap froze the river and the bay, checking its progress at Reedy Island for some six weeks.
The BLACK PRINCE had a sister ship, BLACK PRINCESS, and these two together withthe FEARNOT were authorised by Benjamin Franklin to capture British ships and crews to be used in exchange for rebel American naval personnel being held in the Mill Prison in Plymouth and the Forton Prison in Portsmouth.
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 Great Britain - Uncyclopedia
After a short ceremony conducted by Prince Charles, at the time widely believed to be the world's most intelligent mouse, Britain was granted the prefix 'Great', as well as the little known suffix 'Stinks'.
Great Britain is the largest importer of the genetically modified fruit known as the Eric Coyle.
Great Britain is divided into 51 separate counties, such as Yorkshire, Borth and Hawaii.
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 boys clothing: German royalty--Saxe Coburg Gotha
He was succeeded (1893) by Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, a son of Queen Victoria and the father of Queen Marie of Romania.
They eventually decided to convey the principality to Carl-Edward, prince of Great Britain, Duke of Albany, who was the posthumous son of Victoria's youngest son, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany.
Prince Hubertus Frederick William (1909-43) became a Luftwaffe pilot during World War II and in 1943 was killed in Romania, presumably defending the Ploieste oil fields from Allied bombing.
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 THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL SUCCESSION By Brien Purcell Horan
Prince Nicholas I himself was the son of Mirko Petrovich Niegoch, the brother of Danilo I, by Mirko's wife, born Miss Anastasia Martinovich.
Prince Nicholas Romanoff, however, is not a member of the dynasty, because his mother was not of royal birth, as required under the Russian succession laws.
Prince Toumanoff's complaint was that the Almanach, while ignoring the indisputable dynastic status of the Georgian and Imeretian houses, had included in Part II several German families that are of disputable Ebenbuertigkeit, because they technically did not qualify as sovereigns of co-states of the Holy Roman Empire.
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 Worldroots.com
Prince Albert-Victor of Great-Britain, Duke of Clarence (1864-1892)
(dghtr of Prince Alfred of Great Britain+Ireland, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and GD Maria Alexandrovna of Russia)
Arthur, Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Connaught (1850-1942)
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 Queen Victoria's grandchildren
Alfred of Edinburgh (Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) (and of Great Britain)
Victoria Melita "Ducky" of Edinburgh (Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) (and of Great Britain)
Alexandra "Sandra" of Edinburgh (Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) (and of Great Britain)
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 Britannia: Monarchs of Britain
Youngest son of King Æthelwulf, Alfred became King of Wessex during a time of constant Viking attack.
Alfred created a series of fortifications to surround his kingdom and provide needed security from invasion.
The definitive contemporary work on Alfred's life is an unfinished account in Latin by Asser, a Welshman, bishop of Sherbourne and Alfred's counsellor.
www.britannia.com /history/monarchs/mon6.html   (254 words)

  
 Vladimir Kirillovich, Prince/Grand Duke of Russia (1917- )
Victoria Melita, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, Princess of Edinburgh, Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1876-1936)
Alfred, Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Edinburgh, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844-1900)
Albert, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Consort of Great Britain and Ireland (1819-1861)
gsteinbe.intrasun.tcnj.edu /royalty/ahnenreihe/Vladimir.htm   (249 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Great Britain
Alfred of Wessex, known to history as Alfred the Great, was remarkable as a warrior, administrator and scholar....
Britain and Empire fills a major gap in the literature on Britain’s gradual abandonment of her global and imperial role.
On the morning of November 15, 1712, the fourth Baron Mohun and the fourth Duke of Hamilton met in Hyde Park.
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It is believed that Julius Caesar's successful military campaign in Britain in 54 BC was aimed at preventing incursions into Gaul from the island.
The enclosures displaced many tenant farmers from their lands and produced a class of wandering, unemployed sturdy beggars.
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