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Parliament drew up 27 articles in November 1644 and presented them to Charles I of England at Oxford. [1] Much input into these Propositions of Uxbridge was from Archibald Johnston. [2] The conditions were very assertive, with Presbyterianism to be established south of the border, and Parliament to take control of all military matters. [3]
The war became the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829. The Treaty of Adrianople , signed by Russia and Turkey on 14 September 1829, ended the Russo-Turkish War. Besides recognising the independence of Greece, Turkey was forced by the treaty to give the Danube Delta and its islands and a considerable portion of the Black Sea south of the Kuban ...
The Congress of Vienna brought together the European great powers in Austria to discuss the future of Europe following the defeat of France in the 1813-14 War of the Sixth Coalition. The principal allies of the Sixth Coalition, Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia together with representatives from minor nations and the defeated power, France (now ...
The Anglo-Russian War was a war between the United Kingdom and the Russian Empire which lasted from 2 September 1807 to 18 July 1812 during the Napoleonic Wars. It began after Russia signed the Treaty of Tilsit with the First French Empire , which ended hostilities between the two nations.
'England not Europe.' 'Our foreign policy cannot be conducted against the will of the nation.' 'Europe's domain extends to the shores of the Atlantic, England's begins there.' [78] 1821–32: Britain supports Greece in the Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire ; the 1832 Treaty of Constantinople is ratified at the London Conference ...
The Kingdom of England and Tsardom of Russia established relations in 1553 when English navigator Richard Chancellor arrived in Arkhangelsk – at which time Mary I ruled England and Ivan the Terrible ruled Russia. He returned to England and was sent back to Russia in 1555, the same year the Muscovy Company was established. The Muscovy Company ...
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) [a] was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.. Charles was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life.
Henrietta of England, sister of Charles II of England and sister-in-law of Louis XIV of France, who helped negotiate the secret terms. [7] Charles's motives for secretly entering into negotiations with France, while England was still part of the Triple Alliance against France, have been debated among historians.