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    The Declaration of Pillnitz was a statement of five sentences issued on 27 August 1791 at Pillnitz Castle near Dresden (Saxony) by Frederick William II...
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    surrounded by a park. Pillnitz is known for the Declaration of Pillnitz of 1791: Emperor Leopold II and King Frederick William II of Prussia, urged by Charles...
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    Pillnitz Palace (German: Schloss Pillnitz) is a restored Baroque schloss at the eastern end of the city of Dresden in the German state of Saxony. It is...
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    monarchies had deteriorated following the Declaration of Pillnitz in August 1791. Eight months later, following a vote of the revolutionary-led Legislative Assembly...
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    of Austria (brother of Marie Antoinette) and Frederick William II of Prussia. On 27 August 1791, these foreign leaders made the Pillnitz Declaration,...
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    troops on its French border and together with Prussia, issued the Declaration of Pillnitz, which threatened severe consequences should anything happen to...
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    the émigrés would try to make of it. In face of the reaction in France to the Declaration of Pillnitz, the intrigues of the émigrés, and attacks made...
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    invasion of France. Austria and Prussia responded to the royal brothers' appeals and released the Declaration of Pillnitz in August. The declaration stated...
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  • chronological list of international declarations, declarations of independence, declarations of war, etc. |} Also known as the Book of Sports. Also known...
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  • authority. This was explicitly stated in the Declaration of Pillnitz (17 August 1791) by king Frederick William II of Prussia and emperor Francis II (Austria...
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    establishment of a republic became an increasing possibility. In the August 1791 Declaration of Pillnitz, the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia threatened...
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    "I do know nothing of it." Back in July 1791, the Declaration of Pillnitz was being drafted by Leopold II of Austria (brother of Queen Marie Antoinette)...
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    Frederick William II of Prussia issued the Declaration of Pillnitz declaring their support for Louis, and hinting at an invasion of France on his behalf...
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    Britain for the production of maps. Translation of Voltaire Priestley Riots Champ de Mars massacre Declaration of Pillnitz July 8 – Austrian composer...
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    Brunswick Manifesto (category Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick)
    the law of war, and denial of national sovereignty. War of the First Coalition House of Bourbon La patrie en danger Declaration of Pillnitz Doyle, William...
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    1792. In August 1791, the Declaration of Pillnitz threatened an invasion of France. This led in turn to a French declaration of war in April 1792, which...
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    Prussia and the French émigrées in Saxony, which resulted in the Declaration of Pillnitz 25 August 1791. In 1806, she and her family fled Saxony for Prague...
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    Legislative Assembly (France) (category 1791 events of the French Revolution)
    1911 Encyclopædia Britannica as "mostly persons of little mark". The 27 August 1791 Declaration of Pillnitz already threatened France with an attack by its...
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    bore fruit when the rulers of Prussia and the Holy Roman Empire gathered at Dresden. They released the Declaration of Pillnitz in August 1791, which urged...
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    the face of revolutionary agitation in France. The Declaration of Pillnitz warned of the possibility of military action against the French revolutionary...
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    William II of Prussia, in consultation with émigrés French nobles, issued the Declaration of Pillnitz, which declared the interest of the monarchs of Europe...
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    end of 1791 after the 27 August 1791 Declaration of Pillnitz. Louis Philippe served under his father's crony, Armand Louis de Gontaut the Duke of Biron...
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  • 1791 in France (category Years of the 18th century in France)
    breaks out in the French colony of Saint-Domingue. 27 August Declaration of Pillnitz: A proclamation by Frederick William II of Prussia and the Habsburg Leopold...
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    begins in Saint Domingue (Haiti) August 27: Declaration of Pillnitz - A proclamation by Frederick William II of Prussia and Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Leopold...
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    of the Declaration of Pillnitz between Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor and King Frederick William II of Prussia and the subsequent French declaration of...
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    Austria joined with Prussia in the Declaration of Pillnitz on 27 August. Austria renounced any expansion at the expense of the Ottoman Empire. In return,...
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    Britain for the production of maps. Translation of Voltaire Priestley Riots Champ de Mars massacre Declaration of Pillnitz July 8 – Austrian composer...
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    court-in-exile in the Electorate of Trier. On 25 August, the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire and Prussia issued the Declaration of Pillnitz, which called on other...
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    Maximilien Robespierre (category People of the War of the First Coalition)
    speech would not be printed. The Declaration of Pillnitz (27 August 1791) from Austria and Prussia warned the people of France not to harm Louis XVI or...
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    Charles Alexandre de Calonne (category Viscounts of France)
    the Count of Artois, the reactionary brother of Louis XVI, at Pillnitz in August 1791 at the time of the issuance of the Declaration of Pillnitz, an attempt...
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