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	Silesian Wars: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Silesian Wars were a series of wars between Prussia[For more, click on this link] and Austria[For more, click on this link] (and their changing allies) for control of Silesia Silesia quick summary:
		In the Peace of Breslau[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] 1742 most of Silesia was ceded to Prussia and was organized into the Silesian province.
		Cieszyn is a town in southern poland with 37,300 inhabitants (1995), situated in the silesian voivodship (since 1999), previously in bielsko-biala voivodship...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/si/silesian_wars.htm (756 words)

	History of Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the War of the Schmalkaldic League in 1546/1547, the Emperor Charles V defeated the Protestant rulers.
		The war ended in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia, signed in Münster and Osnabrück: German territory was lost to France and Sweden and the Netherlands left the Holy Roman Empire.
		The war was decided in favour of the Prussians, who carried the decisive victory at the Battle of Königgratz, under the command of Helmuth von Moltke.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Germany (7834 words)

	ARTILLERY - LoveToKnow Article on ARTILLERY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Even in the War of bl rnerican Independence a dispute arose as to whether a general p1 ficer, whose regimental service had been in the Royal Artillery, at is entitled to command troops of all arms, and the artillery ic ivers were not actually soldiers until 1793 at the earliest.
		In the early Silesian wars, heavy or reserve guns th otected the deployment of the army and endeavoured to th epare for the subsequent advance by firing upon the hostile W)ops; the battalion guns remained close to the infantry, pc companied its movements and assisted in the fire fight.
		When war broke out, a train of artillery was in ~anized, consisting of a certain number of field (or siege) guns, ar tnned by garrison gunners; and when peace was proclaimed (J e train was disbanded, the materiel being returned into store, H d the gunners reverting to some fort or stronghold.
	www.12.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AR/ARTILLERY.htm (13101 words)

	SILESIAN WARS - LoveToKnow Article on SILESIAN WARS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On the western theatre of war Prince Ferdinand after the victory of Warburg had pressed the French back to the Rhine and besieged Wesel, but was compelled to raise the siege after suffering the defeat of Kloster-Kamp (i6th Oct.) and to withdraw to Lippstadt and Warburg.
		In 1757 the naval war began to be pushed with a vigour hitherto unprecedented.
		By the close of 1761 the helplessness of France at sea had been demonstrated, but the maritime war was revived for a few months by the intervention of Spain.
	www.1911ency.org /S/SI/SILESIAN_WARS.htm (6970 words)

	Silesia: History
		The Silesian Piasts encouraged German colonization of their lands, the larger part of which became thoroughly Germanized, and in the early 14th cent.
		The political division of the Silesian industrial district was carried out so arbitrarily that the boundaries often cut through mines; some workers slept in one country and worked in another.
		After World War II the pre-1938 boundaries were restored, but all formerly Prussian Silesia E of the Lusatian Neisse was placed under Polish administration (a small section of Lower Silesia W of the Neisse was incorporated with the East German state of Saxony).
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0861088.html (999 words)

	SILESIAN WARS - Online Information article about SILESIAN WARS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		SILESIAN WARS - Online Information article about SILESIAN WARS
		WARS, the name given to the contests between See also:
		Succession (q.v.), and the third war (1756-1762) similarly a part of the Seven Years' War (q.v.).
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SHA_SIV/SILESIAN_WARS.html (177 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Silesia
		The German colonization was vigorously carried on and towards the end of the thirteenth century Lower Silesia was mainly German, while in Upper Silesia the Slavs were in the majority.
		In the seventeenth century Silesia obtained great renown through the two Silesian schools of poetry, the chief of these poets being Martin Opitz, Friedrich von Logau, and Andreas Gryphius.
		At the close of the three Silesian wars (1740-2, 1744-5, 1756-63) the greater part of Silesia belonged to Prussia.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13790b.htm (1447 words)

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