William ii Sentence Examples

Significant of the attitude of Germany - whose " flirtation " with the Transvaal has been noted - was an open telegram sent by the emperor William II.

It was founded in 1123 by Rahere, who, probably a Breton by birth, was a courtier in the reign of William II.

There also, in July 1905, he had his historic interview with the Emperor William II.

It is remarkable for its large crypt and its towers, a fourth having been added in 1894, the gift of the emperor William II.

Foremost among these stand the Schack Gallery, bequeathed by the founder, Count Adolph von Schack, to the emperor William II.

The Bethmann vault attracts attention by three bas-reliefs from the chisel of Thorwaldsen; and the Reichenbach mausoleum is a vast pile designed by Hessemer at the command of William II.

The town contains numerous educational institutions, including a technical college, a school of painting, a celebrated classical school, which the emperor William II.

The Hoh-Konigsburg, a great castle standing at an elevation of 2475 ft., was presented to the emperor William II.

Near Gasturi stands the Achilleion, the palace built for the Empress Elizabeth of Austria, and purchased in 1907 by the German emperor, William II.

Among ecclesiastical buildings are remains of two monastic foundations - the priory of St Botolph, founded early in the 12th century for Augustinian canons, of which part of the fine Norman west front (in which Roman bricks occur), and of the nave arcades remain; and the restored gateway of the Benedictine monastery of St John, founded by Eudo, steward to William II.

The two visits paid by Emperor William II.

Other Prussian orders are the Order of William, instituted by William II.

In this same year the states of Holland found themselves engaged in a struggle for provincial supremacy, on the question of the disbanding of troops, with the youthful prince of Orange, William II.

In 1883 the daughter of the duke of Augustenburg, the former claimant to the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, married the heir to the Prussian throne, who became William II.

He was succeeded by his eldest son, William II.

At the conference assembled at Algeciras to settle the Morocco Question, Austria supported the German position, and after the close of the conferences the emperor William II.

He preferred to support the claims of his cousin, William II.

From its sheltered harbour William II.

Uphues; presented to the United States by Emperor William II.

Various small feuds were suppressed; Henry the Lion was deprived of his duchy, which was dismembered, and sent into exile; a treaty was made with the Lombard league at Constance in June 1183; and most important of all, Frederick's son Henry was betrothed in 1184 to Constance, daughter of Roger I., king of Sicily, and aunt and heiress of the reigning king, William II.

A Prussian national memorial was unveiled here in the presence of the emperor William II.

From the south side of the Kiinigs-platz crossing the Tiergarten and intersecting the avenue from the Brandenburg Gate to Charlottenburg runs the broad Sieges-allee adorned by thirty-two groups of marble statuary representing famous rulers of the house of Hohenzollern, the gift of the emperor William II.

The city held out obstinately against the pretensions of the stadtholders, and in 1650 opened the dykes in order to prevent William II.

Another long minority followed his death, during which his brother Otto, bishop of Utrecht, acted as guardian to his nephew William II.

John of Avesnes, who took the title of John II., was the son of John of Avesnes, count of Hainaut, and Alida, sister of John IL William II.

In the adjoining Buitenhof, or "outer court," is a statue of King William II.

It was during the reigns of William II.

It is clear that the position of a chancellor holding these views in relation to a ruler so masterful and so impulsive as the emperor William II.

On the 6th of October 1891 King Charles died suddenly, and was succeeded by his cousin William II.

In August 1791 he had met Frederick William II.

He was equally loyal to William II.

Immediately after Bismarck's death Busch published the chancellor's famous petition to the emperor William II.

Frederick Henry of Orange was stadtholder of six provinces, but not of Friesland, and even during the stadtholderless periods which followed the deaths of William II.

Henry Raspe, landgrave of Thuringia, was chosen German king in opposition to Frederick in May 1246, but neither he nor his successor, William II count of Holland was successful in driving the Hohenstaufen from Germany.

The beginning of his rule inherited a war with France and Holland; the former consequent on Cromwell's failure to obtain terms for the Huguenots or the cession of Dunkirk, and the latter - for which he was not responsible - the result of commercial rivalry, of disputes concerning the rights of neutrals, of bitter memories of Dutch misdeeds in the East Indies, and of dynastic causes arising from the stadtholder, William II.

It was granted by William II.

In 1840, on the abdication of his father, he ascended the throne as William II.

He himself was a prebendary of St Paul's, and was also a clerk in the service of William II.

In 1 246 it received a charter from Count William II.

By Matilda, who died in Normandy on the 3rd of November 1083, William had four sons, Robert, duke of Normandy, Richard, who was killed whilst hunting, and the future kings, William II.