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... sixty-four years old. The son of Frederick William III and Queen Louisa, while yet a child he had witnessed the disasters of his country and his home, and then as a young man had had his first experience of arms towards the close of the Napoleonic wars. ...

— A History of The Nations and Empires Involved and a Study - of the Events Culminating in The Great Conflict • Logan Marshall

... purpose of his destiny clear even to the most ardent of French Royalists, and to the most contented of the servants of Francis II or Frederick William III. At Vienna the gaily-plumaged diplomatists undid in a month all that the fifteen years of unparalleled action and suffering unparalleled had achieved; whilst the most matter-of-fact of all British Cabinets invested the prison of the fallen conqueror with ...

— The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain - Nineteenth Century Europe • J. A. Cramb

... Dresden Ambassador at Berlin Austrian aristocracy Metternich at Paris Metternich on Napoleon Metternich, Chancellor and Prime Minister Designs of Napoleon Napoleon marries Marie Louise Hostility of Metternich Frederick William III Coalition of Great Powers Congress of Vienna Subdivision of Napoleon conquests Holy Alliance Burdens of Metternich His political aims His hatred of liberty Assassination of von Kotzebue Insurrection of Naples Insurrection of Piedmont Spanish Revolution ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume IX • John Lord

... calm. Scarcely had the Graf surrendered his liberty than he fell passionately in love with his wife's adopted daughter, Helmine, a beautiful girl of eighteen, the child, it was believed, of humble parents. Frederick William III. of Prussia was one of her admirers, and had offered to marry her morganatically, and create her Herzogin von Breslau. But Helmine gave her royal suitor no encouragement, and he soon consoled himself with the Princess Liegnitz. Lucie spared no pains to marry off the inconvenient beauty, ...

— Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century • George Paston