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Proclamations of thanksgiving for the Treaty of Utrecht...
Proclamations of thanksgiving for the Treaty of Utrecht...
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THE LONDON GAZETTE, May 23, 1713 This issue begins with: "By the Queen, A PROCLAMATION For a Publick Thanksgiving" in celebration for the Treaty of Utrecht. It is followed by another "Proclamation" as well, and content inside relates to this also.The Treaty of Utrecht was an historic agreement among various European powers, with France being the common party within the various agreements, concluded April 11,1713 at Utrecht in the Netherlands. It is part of the series of treaties which ended the War of the Spanish Succession.
British historian G. M. Trevelyan argues: "That Treaty, which ushered in the stable and characteristic period of eighteenth-century civilization, marked the end of danger to Europe from the old French monarchy, and it marked a change of no less significance to the world at large, — the maritime, commercial and financial supremacy of Great Britain."
Complete in 6 pages, nice condition.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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