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Crusades

CRUSADES

French Revolution 1789

FRENCH REVOLUTION 1789

Napoleon Bonaparte

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

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Memorabilia of Gideon Ernst von Laudon (1717-1790), Austrian Fieldmarshal who distinguished himself in the Seven-Year War against Friedrich II of Prussia. Laudon's three-cornered hat, medals, his sabre and sash and popular books written about him.
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Memorabilia of Gideon Ernst von Laudon (1717-1790), Austrian Fieldmarshal wh...

Portrait bust of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States of America (1743-1826).
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Portrait bust of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States of...

Books and instruments from Jefferson's architectural library.
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Books and instruments from Jefferson's architectural library.

Emperor Joseph II (1741-1790), oldest son of Empress Maria Theresia and Emperor Franz Stephan. The "revolutionary on the throne" was a contemporary of the French Revolution, whose prominent victim was his sister Marie-Antoinette, wife of Louis XVI. Canvas, 38 x 28 cm
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Emperor Joseph II (1741-1790), oldest son of Empress Maria Theresia and Emperor...

Archduke Karl's victory over Napoleon I at Aspern near Vienna, May 21/22, 1809. In the foreground a model of the "Lion of Aspern", the monument commemorating the battle, and an Austrian and a French flag.
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Archduke Karl's victory over Napoleon I at Aspern near Vienna, May 21/22, 1809....

Camillo Benso Cavour, Count (1810-1861), Italian statesman, cofounder of the newspaper "Il Risorgimento" which gave its name to the movement for Italian unity. 1852 Prime Minister of Piemont-Sardinia; 1860/61 in- strumental in the unification of Italy.
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Camillo Benso Cavour, Count (1810-1861), Italian statesman, cofounder of...

Count Cavour's Prime Minister's office in Torino, Italy. Camillo Benso Cavour was cofounder of the newspaper "Il Risorgimento" which gave its name to the movement for Italian unity, in which Cavour took part. Except for Venice, all of Italy was united in 1860/61.
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Count Cavour's Prime Minister's office in Torino, Italy. Camillo Benso Cav...

Seal with equestrian figure and coat-of-arms ("Bindenschild") of Friedrich II, last Duke of the Babenbergs, attached to a treaty of April 29th, 1233, between the Duke and the Abbot of Freising.
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Seal with equestrian figure and coat-of-arms ("Bindenschild") of Frie...

Deed by which King Rudolf I of Habsburg invested his sons Albrecht and Rudolf with the Duchies of Austria and Styria. December 27, 1282
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Deed by which King Rudolf I of Habsburg invested his sons Albrecht and Rudolf...

Deed by which Margarethe Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol, made over the counties of Tyrol and Goricia to the Dukes of Austria. Parchment with the seal of Margarethe and those of fourteen of her squires. January 26, 1363
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Deed by which Margarethe Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol, made over the counties o...

"Hand-register" of Emperor Friedrich III, with coats of arms, list of popes, emperors and towns, copies of important privileges etc.,to provide ready information to the Emperor about his lands and subjects. The motto "AEIOU" may mean "Austriae est imperare orbi universo."
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"Hand-register" of Emperor Friedrich III, with coats of arms, list of popes,...

Ladislaus "Postumus", King of Hungary and Bohemia, born 1440, four months after the death of his father King Albrecht II. Betrothed to Magdalena, daughter of King Charles VII of France in 1457, he died that same year. Parchment on wood, 32x27 cm Inv. 2984
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Ladislaus "Postumus", King of Hungary and Bohemia, born 1440, four months a...