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The French invasion, which was Charles's last realistic chance to recover the British throne for the Stuart dynasty, was ultimately thwarted by naval defeats at Quiberon Bay and Lagos.
Charles's last years were spent in the consolidation of Normandy ( and the neutralisation of Charles of Navarre ).
Charles's last efforts to reinstate Sweden as an empire were to invade Norway.
One of Charles's last acts at Carisbrooke Castle was to entrust to Sir Thomas Herbert a copy of the book, to give to his son Henry, Duke of Gloucester.
Reggie and Adam go to the location of Charles's last appointment and find an outdoor market.
Based on reconnaissance, Charles's officers were confident that the garrison's food and ammunition would not last long ; they argued that the city could be taken in less than 10 days, with Parliament lacking an effective army to relieve the city.
Lady Antonia Fraser ( Charles II, page 82 ) points out that such a match would have taken one of " the last aces " Charles had, his " marriageability " to some foreign princess which, conceivably, could have brought him aid in regaining his throne. On the other hand, Monmouth's biographer J. N. P. Watson (" Captain-General and Rebel Chief ", 127 ) has argued there is a substantial amount of circumstantial evidence to support the marriage between Lucy Walters and Charles, including letters from Charles's sister ( a confidante of Lucy Walters ) in the 1640s which refer to Charles's " wife ".

Charles's and years
The first years of Charles's reign, up to the death of Lothair I in 855, were comparatively peaceful.
Three years later, in 1778, Charles's second son, Charles Ferdinand, was born and was given the title of a Duke of Berry.
In the ensuing years 1593 — 1595, Charles's task was extraordinarily difficult.
It was an ignominious end to Charles's 15 years of struggle to create a major territory for himself and his line in France.
Charles's support allowed Clement to survive — he would not have been able to maintain his position without the aid of the King — and led to the Papal Schism, which would divide Europe for nearly 40 years.
Three years afterward, when all the dignitaries of the Empire met at Augsburg to receive commands from the emperor, and Titian came at Charles's bidding to paint King Philip II of Spain, John Frederick asked Cranach to visit the city ; and here for a few months he stayed in the household of the captive elector, whom he afterward accompanied home in 1552.
" Zita wore mourning black in Charles's memory throughout her 67 long years of widowhood.
Unfortunately Charles's political judgment was appalling – he reigned for eleven years without convening the Parliament of England, as he was not disposed to accept direction from it when it was sitting, and the ensuing Civil War eventually cost Charles both his crown and his head.
Most significant is Charles's apparent conversion, which is expressed very subtly at the end of the book, set more than 20 years after his first meeting Sebastian.
Waugh himself said that " Charles's romantic affection for Sebastian is part due to the glitter of the new world Sebastian represents, part to the protective feeling of a strong towards a weak character, and part a foreshadowing of the love for Julia which is to be the consuming passion of his mature years.
At the séance, she inadvertently summons Charles's first wife, Elvira, who has been dead for seven years.
Charles's move to the Senior PGA Tour ( now called Champions Tour ) was very lucrative and successful with 23 titles ; and in three years 1988, 1989 and 1993, he recorded lowest scoring average.
Charles's final years were rife with conflict and unhappiness.
Charles's suicide in 1923 when he was 46 years old was a severe shock to his wife and four children.
In July Æthelwulf became engaged to Charles's daughter, Judith, who was no more than fourteen, while Æthelwulf was about fifty years old, and on 1 October 856 they were married at Verberie in northern France.
In the earlier years of the latter, though the richer colonels uniformed their men ( as, for instance, the Marquess of Newcastle's " Whitecoats " and King Charles's own red-coated Lifeguard of foot ), the rustics and the citizens turned out for war in their ordinary rough clothes, donning armour and sword-belt.
Charles's health became more infirm as well through these years.
William intrigued to have Charles declared of-age at fifteen years old via large advances of money to Charles's grandfather Emperor Maximilian, and to be appointed Grand Chamberlain.
In the one hastily-arranged Test Match played at the Oval that year ( the first ever on British soil ), he took Charles's place as Australian opener and scored the first Test run in England, just as the older Bannerman brother had taken the first ( off Alfred Shaw ) in Australia almost four years before.

Charles's and were
Matters remained unresolved until 1640 when, in a renewal of hostilities, Charles's northern forces were defeated by the Scots at the Battle of Newburn to the west of Newcastle.
Charles's intervention allowed the Black Guelphs to overthrow the ruling White Guelphs, whose leaders, including the poet Dante, allegedly in Rome at the time to argue Florence's case before Boniface, were sentenced to exile.
Louis and Charles were also first cousins once removed, Louis's grandmother, Anne of Austria, being sister of Charles's father, Philip IV of Spain.
With the death of the Burgundian duke Charles the Bold in 1477, the Boulonnais and Artois were seized by the French crown, while Flanders and Hainaut were inherited by Charles's daughter Marie.
These territories formed an integral part of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands as they were defined during the reign of Philip's son, Emperor Charles V, and passed to Charles's son, Philip II of Spain.
At Henry's death in 1807, Charles's remains were moved to the crypt of Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican where they were laid to rest next to those of his brother and his father.
Charles's relations with John were always more or less strained.
Thomas Fairfax emerged for a moment from his retirement to organize the Yorkshire levies, and the best of these as well as of the Lancashire, Cheshire and Staffordshire militias were directed upon Warrington, which Harrison reached on 15 August, a few hours in front of Charles's advanced guard.
Charles's designs were well known in advance and in early April 1364 this force seized many of Charles's remaining strongholds before the Captal de Buch could reach Normandy.
After substantial revisions, the fortifications were completed in 1553, under Charles's son Philip II.
At first the States of Holland were disinclined to grant Charles's demands: as England had accomplished nothing in the war, it was, in their opinion, not entitled to anything.
Their father, who was still alive during these events, made Joseph and his brother Charles sign the Mutual Pact of Succession, ensuring that Joseph's daughters would have absolute precedence over Charles's daughters, neither of whom were born at the time and that Maria Josepha would ascend both the throne of the Holy Roman Empire and the throne of the Kingdom of Spain.
With popular anger at Charles's policies, many MPs were opposed to him, including Pym, Coke and a young Oliver Cromwell.
At the beginning of the reign, Charles was more often than not away from Vienna, so he had a telephone line installed from Baden ( where Charles's military headquarters were located ) to the Hofburg.
The children were being looked after at Wartegg Castle in Switzerland by Charles's step-grandmother Maria Theresa, although Zita managed to see them in Zurich when her son Robert needed an operation for appendicitis.
After Charles's death, the former Austrian imperial family were soon to move again.
His plans were that Charles's forces would move forward to Moscow and then he could create his own uprising in Ukraine.
Although a Generalissimus, with supreme authority over the entire Austrian army, Charles's position was constantly undermined by his Imperial brother and the war party at the Court, who were corresponding directly on military matters with his Chief of Staff, General Major Wimpffen and some of the Corps commanders.

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