But, added all the archdukes and officers, that would not be so easy as the French imagined, and they would get a good lesson.
The Emperor and the archdukesnever miss a ball; they are surrounded by a crowd of maskers who say a number of pleasant things to them, and it really appears as if this alliance had added to the Emperor's already great popularity.
If not, he had better mention which of the Archdukes should be substituted in his place.
If queens smiled and archduchesses looked kind upon him, let kings and archdukes look to it.
No other offers from the King of Spain or the Archdukes had ever been made to him, said van Berk, than those indicated in this deposition against the Advocate as coming from that statesman.
I am entirely opposed to placing any more archdukes at the head of our armies.
You refer to the Archdukes Charles and John," said Thugut, quietly.
The article alludes to the archdukes who overthrew the minister so obstinately opposed to peace, and to the Empress Claudia who profited by her power over the emperor in order to ruin an all-powerful minister, her enemy.
The Archdukeshave found it proper to make the following declaration, offer, and presentation to the States-General of the United Provinces of the Low Countries.
There was still a rallying-point left to the archdukes at the bridge of Krems, but they did not think they could defend it.
There thearchdukes and General Hiller might effect their junction, and there, therefore, must the road to Vienna be opened or closed.
The archdukes would, no doubt, it was said, nominally recognise the provinces as a free State, but without really meaning it.
It is our right hands that have gained this liberty," said Maurice, "not the archdukes that have granted it.
Why did thearchdukes not declare their intentions openly and at once?
He was informed that the paper exhibited by him was in many respects objectionable, and that they had therefore drawn up a form which he was requested to lay before the archdukes for their guidance in making out a new power.
This is so manifest that neither the king nor the archdukes can lose any of their rights over the United Provinces, even should they make this declaration.
Nothing could exceed the indignation with which the royalists and Catholics at the court of the archdukes were inspired by the extreme arrogance and obstinacy thus manifested by the rebellious heretics.
He replied in the negative, adding only a few vague commonplaces about the effusion of blood and the desire of the archdukes for the good of mankind.
The Franciscan objected that it did not comport with the dignity of the archdukes to suppose the consent of any other sovereign needful to confirm their acts.
The United Provinces were treated "as free States over which thearchdukes made no pretensions.
Henry IV had for some time been making preparations for war, and he was at the moment irritated by the protection given by the archdukes to the runaway Princess of Condé, who had fled to Brussels.
For financially the archdukes were in even worse plight than the Netherlanders, even though for a short time, with the help of Spinola, appearances seemed to favour the Belgic attacks on the Dutch frontier districts.
Jeannin was aware that the finances of Spain were at their last gasp, and that both the archdukes and Philip III were most anxious for a respite from the ever-consuming expense of the war.
The archdukes had no desire to re-open hostilities; and Pecquinius, the Chancellor of Brabant, was sent to the Hague to confer with Maurice, and was authorised to name certain conditions for the conclusion of a peace.
The Austrian nobility has always claimed the privilege of filling all superior offices, and it is furious at seeing the archdukes animated with the desire of dedicating their abilities to their fatherland and their emperor.
Which of the archdukes is to receive the new principality of the Tyrol at Bonaparte's hands?
The door of the imperial box opened at this moment, and the emperor and empress entered, followed by the archdukes and their suites.
I believe the twoarchdukes will thwart each other on all occasions," he said, in a low voice.
A few minutes afterward the two archdukes entered the room of the emperor, who slowly went some steps to meet them, and greeted them with a grave, cold glance.
And now the archdukesmarched the troops into the middle of the place, and the consecration of the flags commenced amid the peals of all the church-bells and the booming of artillery.
The two archdukesbowed to indicate their submissiveness.
Things would be even more prosperous in this campaign, if the generals serving under the archdukes had carried out the orders of their superiors with greater zeal, promptness, and willingness.
But say, Bubna, do you really think that Bonaparte was in earnest about his dreams, and that, in case he should defeat us again, he would seriously think of carrying into effect his plans regarding the Archdukes Ferdinand and John?
The Emperor Francis was aware of this; he knew that the Archdukes Charles and John were by far more popular than he was; hence he was jealous of and angry with them--nay, he almost hated them.
The greatest alarm was excited in the Belgic provinces; and nothing but the prudence of the archdukes and the forbearance of the states-general could have succeeded in averting the threatened evil.
The news of this battle reaching Brussels before it was known in Holland, contributed not a little to quicken the anxiety of the archdukes for peace.
This was nothing less than an invasion poured into the very heart of Flanders, thus putting the archdukes on the defence of their own most vital possessions, and changing completely the whole character of the war.
The archdukes Albert and Isabella arrived in the Netherlands in September, and made their entrance into Brussels with unexampled magnificence.
The archdukes Albert and Isabella were drawn into the quarrel; and they despatched Spinola at the head of twenty thousand men to support the duke of Neuburg, whose pretensions they countenanced.
The states of the Catholic provinces assembled at Brussels now gave the archdukes to understand that nothing but peace could satisfy their wishes or save the country from exhaustion and ruin.
The archdukes Albert and Isabella, during the whole course of their sovereignty, labored to remedy the abuses which had crowded the administration of justice.
The piety of the archdukes gave an example to all classes.
The king of Spain and the archdukes were well satisfied to obtain even this temporary cessation of the war; but Prince Maurice and a portion of the Provinces strenuously opposed the proposition.
Napoleon now installed himself at the stately palace of Schönbrunn, while Francis was fleeing to Olmütz and the Archdukes Charles and John were struggling in the defiles of the Alps to disengage themselves from the vanguard of Masséna.
Austria received the archbishoprics of Trent and Brixen: while her Archdukes (formerly of Tuscany and Modena) were installed in Salzburg and Breisgau.
For several ages the archdukes of Austria had been endeavoring to unite the Austrian States with Hungary and Bohemia under one monarchy.
He did not believe, he said, that the Archdukes would refuse him the passage with his forces through their territory, inasmuch as the States' army would be on the way to meet him.
The Archdukes would resist this, and thus a cause of war would arise.
The trouble of Utrecht," wrote Aerssens to Barneveld, "has been turned to account here marvellously, the Archdukesand Spaniards boasting that many more revolts like this may be at once expected.
Pecquius asserted that the Archdukes had received assurances from the States that they would do nothing to violate the truce.
The Archdukes were not justified in keeping her against her will in perpetual banishment.
He seemed to require neither sleep nor food, and his reckless habit of exposing himself to unnecessary danger was the subject of frequent animadversion on the part both of the archdukes and of the Spanish Government.
Very naturally too, it was said that the position of the archdukeshad become preposterous.
It was most natural that the Dutch republic and the French king, the archdukes and his Catholic Majesty, should be filled with anxiety as to the probable effect of this change of individuals upon the fortunes of the war.
She was the mother of Queen Marie Christina of Spain and the Archdukes Frederick, Charles Stephen, and Eugène.
The old Archdukes are all very polite, and the Archduchess Sophia, as usual, is most pleasant and attractive.
Ferdinand was the most vigorous scion of his house; and both the German Archdukes laid their own well-founded claims at his feet.
The Archdukes were eager for an immediate negotiation on the subject, and were already certain of the support of the spiritual electors.
Aerssens asked if theArchdukes would disband their troops so long as the affair of Cleve remained unsettled.
He advised them to notify the Archdukes in Brussels that they would regard the truce as broken if, under pretext of maintaining the Emperor's rights, they should molest the princes.
It seemed, he said, as if the Archdukes thought they had no further need of them, or as if a stamp of the foot could raise new armies out of the earth.
On his return, Henry said, he meant to make him prisoner as a hostage for the Prince of Conde, whom the Archdukes were harbouring and detaining.
The Archdukes will never move except on compulsion.
He said that orders had been sent from Spain to disband all troops in the obedient Netherlands except Spaniards and Italians, telling the Archdukes that they must raise the money out of the country to content them.
He wrote letters to the Archdukes and to the Elector of Cologne, sternly notifying them that he would permit no assault upon the princes, and meant to protect them in their rights.
They now sent Richardot to say that neither the Archdukes nor the King of Spain would interfere in the matter, and that they hoped the King of France would not prevent the Emperor from exercising his rightful functions of judge.
This would be the pretext, he said, but the object would be to deprive the Archdukes of any military chief, and thus to throw them into utter confusion.
The peace recently concluded by James with Philip and the archdukes placed England in a position of neutrality in the war now waging in the clove islands between Spain and the republic's East India Company.
It had been laid down by the archdukes that there was no military law at sea, and that sick soldiers captured on the water should be hanged.
Being determined to hold Ostend, they became very impatient, in the early part of the present year, that Maurice should once more invade Flanders, at the head of a relieving army, and drive the archdukes from before the town.
In the summer of 1604 King James made a treaty of peace and amity with the archdukes and with the monarch of Spain, thus extending his friendly relations with the doomed house of Austria.
The archdukes too were beginning to doubt whether the bargain were a good one.
Those who were formerly subjects to the Archdukes of Austria, to the Duke of Zeringue, and to the monks, are now the subjects of their own country.
In the rich cantons, the people are charged, for the state, with those duties which the Archdukes of Austria and the lords of the land used to exact.
On a comparison of the agreement brought by Neyen from Brussels with the draught furnished by Barneveld, of which Van der Does had a copy, so many discrepancies appeared that the document of the archdukes was at once rejected.
The Franciscan denied that because the sovereigns of Spain sent funds and auxiliary troops to Flanders, and appointed military commanders there of various degrees, the authority of the archdukes was any the less supreme.
It needed but a brief deliberation at the court of the archdukes to bring about the desired arrangement.
Walrave van Wittenhorst and Doctor Gevaerts had been allowed to come to the Hague, ostensibly on private business, but with secret commission from the archdukes to feel and report concerning the political atmosphere.
He added that it was useless now to talk of evidence, "seeing the wretch is already condemned by the public sentence of the whole Parliament, which sentence the archdukes might see if they would.
The archdukes remaining unconvinced, another and very notable argument was brought into play.
It was too late to prevent the mission of Ybarra, who, immediately after his arrival in Brussels, began to urge in the king's name that the words in which the provinces had been declared free by the archdukes might be expunged.
This prospect, not agreeable certainly for the archdukes or their subjects, was but little admired outside the Spanish court.
In March, the royal Government had expressly consented that the archdukes should treat with the rebels on the ground of their independence.
The States-General were not so unskilled in affairs as to be ignorant that the king and the archdukes were quite capable, at a future day, of declaring themselves untrammelled by any conditions.
So he informed the recorder that the archdukes had been much touched with his adroitness and zeal in facilitating the entrance of their secret agent into the presence of the Prince and the Advocate.
He reminded them of the proofs already given by the archdukes of their sincere desire to change the long and sanguinary war into a good and assured peace.
Ybarra went about, too, prating to the archdukes and to others of supplies to be sent from Spain sufficient to carry on the war for many years, and of fresh troops to be forwarded immediately by Fuentes.
That Government, moreover, on the 23rd December formally notified to the archdukes that, trusting to their declarations, and to the statements of Neyen and Verreyken, it was willing to hold conferences for peace.
The archdukes had something to hope from peace, and little but disaster and ruin to themselves from a continuance of the war.
Difficult as it seemed to be to recede, thearchdukes might be certain that a complete rupture was imminent.
As the archdukes were childless, it might be easily arranged that this youthful couple should succeed them--the result of which would of course be the reduction of all the Netherlands to their ancient obedience.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "archdukes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
