Example sentences for: hapsburg

How can you use “hapsburg” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Two blocks north is another lively square, Praça dos Restauradores, with its historic obelisk commemorating the overthrow of Spanish Hapsburg rule in 1640.

  • Britain seized Gibraltar — in the name of the Hapsburg claimant — and retained it when the war was over.

  • The daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella married the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian of Hapsburg.

  • A rival Hapsburg claimant was supported by Austria and Britain, who saw a powerful Spanish-French alliance as a major threat.

  • The worst of these episodes came in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1713) between the backers of Philip of Anjou, the 17-year-old grandson of Louis XIV of France, and the Hapsburg claimant, Archduke Charles of Austria.


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