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Peace with Spain in 1411 prompted Portugal to seek overseas conquests.
Obviously the short-lived French conquests in the region left behind words and names; here a crazy man is foo [for Fr fou ] or, if you want to insult him, a crapaud toad, while on our little island resolutely British placenames (Grenville, Victoria) nestle beside villages like Perd-mon-Temps, La Tante, Crochu.
He managed to simultaneously pursue foreign conquests in Germany and Austria and domestic reforms that included a modernized university, a police force, and proper supplies of drinking water for Parisians.
Although the British made no military conquests here during the War of Spanish Succession (1700–1713), their negotiators forced the French in the ensuing Treaty of Utrecht to give up all of Acadia (Nova Scotia) except Cape Breton.
At one point, Rivera confides to friends that his wife has become so depressed that he can't even cheer her up by telling her about his latest sexual conquests.