After several years of bloody war, victory finally seemed within the grasp of Frederick, who was strongly supported by his brother Leopold.

Leopold then offered France the support of the Association for French ownership of the entire northern bank, and sweetened the deal by proposing that, if his personal wealth proved insufficient to hold the entire Congo, as seemed utterly inevitable, that it should revert to France.

William III had no intention of continuing the war or pressing for Leopold I's claims in the Rhineland or for the Spanish succession: it seemed more important for Dutch and British security to obtain Louis XIV's recognition of the 1688 revolution.

He nevertheless was able to hold his ground against the Wittelsbach rival and after several years of bloody war, victory finally seemed to be within Frederick's grasp, as he was strongly supported by the forces of his younger brother Leopold I.

The man was King Leopold 2, of the Belgians, who in 1885 concluded that he had better grab a colony while the grabbing was still good.

Leopold was born in 1887 and educated at Yale University.

Leopold believed that harm was frequently done to natural systems out of a sense of ownership and this idea eclipsed community.

The Dowager Queen Constance was anxious for her son's life and she escaped with King Ladislaus to the court of Leopold VI, Duke of Austria.

As a student of Florian Leopold Gassmann, and a protégé of Gluck, Salieri was a cosmopolitan composer who wrote operas in three languages.

It was through Pacini that Salieri gained the attention of the composer Florian Leopold Gassmann, who, impressed with his talents and concerned for his future, took the young orphan to Vienna where he personally directed and paid for the remainder of his musical education.

For example, when Salieri was appointed Kapellmeister in 1788 he revived Figaro instead of bringing out a new opera of his own ; and when he went to the coronation festivities for Leopold II in 1790 he had no fewer than three Mozart masses in his luggage.

Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen (, also known as Karl von Österreich-Teschen ) ( Full name: Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz of Austria ) ( 5 September 1771 – 30 April 1847 ) was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of emperor Leopold II and his wife Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain.

The Congo Free State was a corporate state privately controlled by Leopold II, King of the Belgians through the Association Internationale Africaine, a non-governmental organization.

Leopold was the sole shareholder and chairman.

The melody of the Deutschlandlied was originally adapted by Joseph Haydn in 1797 to provide music to the poem " Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser " (" God save Franz the Emperor ") by Lorenz Leopold Haschka.

Although the term " dominatrix " was not used, the classic example in literature of the female dominant-male submissive relationship is portrayed in the 1870 novella Venus in Furs by Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.

He found her a publisher, and her book was reviewed by Aldo Leopold, Joseph Grinnell, and Jean Delacour.

The historic emphasis and poetic naturalist writings for protection was on wild places, from notable ecologists in the history of conservation biology, such as Aldo Leopold and Arthur Tansley, were far removed from urban centres where the concentration of pollution and environmental degradation is located.

The word ' ester ' was coined in 1848 by German chemist Leopold Gmelin, probably as a contraction of the German Essigäther-acetic ether.

By May 1683 the Ottoman threat to Emperor Leopold I's capital, Vienna, was very real.

It was at Leopold I's camp where Eugene arrived in mid-August.

His grandfather, Thomas Francis, founder of the Carignano line of the House of Savoy, was the son of Catherine Michelle – a daughter of Philip II of Spain – and the great-grandson of the Emperor Charles V. But of more immediate consequence to Leopold I was the fact that Eugene was the second cousin of Victor Amadeus, the Duke of Savoy, a connection that the Emperor hoped might prove useful in any future confrontation with France.

With the signing of the Treaty of Ryswick in September / October 1697, the desultory war in the west was finally brought to an inconclusive end, and Leopold I could once again devote all his martial energies into defeating the Ottoman Turks in the east.

With the monarchy at the point of complete financial breakdown Leopold I was at last persuaded to change the government.

Also important was forester and ecologist Aldo Leopold, one of the founders of the Wilderness Society in 1935, who wrote a classic of nature observation and ethical philosophy, A Sand County Almanac, published in 1949.

Leopold was, from 1765 to 1790, the Grand duke | Grand Duke of Tuscany

Louis XIV had hoped that a show of force would lead to a quick resolution to his dynastic and territorial disputes with the princes of the Empire along his eastern border, but his intimidatory moves only strengthened German resolve, and in May 1689 Leopold I and the Dutch signed an offensive compact aimed at repelling French aggression.

1670 ), however, a distinctly German style came only after 1700 in the works of Silvius Leopold Weiss ( 1686 – 1750 ), one of the greatest lute composers, some of whose works were transcribed for keyboard by none other than Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ), who composed a few pieces for the lute himself ( although it is unclear whether they were really intended for the lute, rather than another plucked string instrument or the lautenwerk ).

Joseph Clement was not only the candidate of Emperor Leopold I ( 1658 – 1705 ) but of all European rulers, with the exception of the King of France and his supporter, King James II of England ( 1685 – 88 ).

Resulting in the division of the mouth of the Congo River between Portugal, who obtained Cabinda, an enclave north of the Congo River situated on the Atlantic Coast, the French who seized the large area north of the River, and king Leopold II gaining only a small foothold at the mouth of the Congo River but obtaining the huge hinterland, the present-day Democratic Republic of Congo ( formerly Zaire ).

It was in part to pre-empt French objections to this outcome that in 1668, only three years after Charles II had ascended, the then-childless Leopold had agreed to partition Spanish territories between the Bourbons and the Habsburgs, even though Philip IV's will would have entitled him to the entire inheritance.

On the other hand, during discussions inside the Liberal Party Jean Rey stated on 13 March 1950: if the Catholics considered important the majority in favour of Leopold III ( 57, 68 % in Belgium as a whole ), the Walloons may also considered important their own opinion ( i. e. In Wallonia only ) against Leopold which had the same percentage.

This ultimately left 12-year-old Maria Antonia as the only potential bride left in the family for the 14-year-old Louis Auguste, who was also her second cousin once removed, through Leopold I.

Pecci encouraged the struggle for Catholic schools, yet he was able to win the good will of the Court, not only of the pious Queen Louise, but also of King Leopold I, strongly Liberal in his views.

Four children were born of this marriage ; three were daughters, and the only son, Leopold, died when he was 9 years old.

When, however, the only legitimate son of his uncle, Leopold II, died as a child, and Albert's older brother, Prince Baudouin of Belgium, who had been subsequently prepared for the throne, also died young, Albert, at the age of 16, unexpectedly became second in line ( after his father ) to the Belgian Crown.

The name Illyria only disappears from the historical record after the Ottoman invasion of the Balkans in the 15th century, and re-emerges in the 17th century, acquiring a new significance in the Ottoman – Habsburg Wars, as Leopold I designated as the " Illyrian nation " the Serbs on Hungarian territory.

Leopold I of Belgium was head of Foreign Affairs as an ancien régime monarch, the foreign ministers having the authority to do so only as ministers of the king.

Mozart biographer Maynard Solomon ( 1995 ) takes the view that the tours were lucrative and produced long-term profits for Leopold ; Ruth Halliwell ( 1998 ) states to the contrary that their income generally only covered their travel and living expenses.

The last three trips were to Italy, with only Leopold accompanying Wolfgang.

The short featured no dialogue only music which was conducted by Leopold Stokowski.

It was only thanks to the tremendous resistance of the rearguard under Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau that Styrum managed to save his army and reach Nordlingen.

In Chicago, only three people had purchased glasses with such a mechanism, one of whom was Nathan Leopold.

Christian de Bonchamps, a French explorer who served Leopold in Katanga, expressed attitudes towards such treaties shared by many Europeans, saying, " The treaties with these little African tyrants, which generally consist of four long pages of which they do not understand a word, and to which they sign a cross in order to have peace and to receive gifts, are really only serious matters for the European powers, in the event of disputes over the territories.

Missionaries were allowed only on sufferance and Leopold was able to keep quiet the Belgian Catholics.

The only daughter of Leopold I, King of the Belgians ( 1790 – 1865 ) by his second wife, Louise of Orléans, Princess of Orléans ( 1812 – 1850 ), Charlotte was born at the Royal Castle of Laeken in Laeken, Brussels, Belgium.

On 6 November 1817 the Prince Regent's only daughter, Princess Charlotte, wife of Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld ( later King Leopold I of the Belgians ), died in childbirth.

Alfred's only son, also named Alfred, committed suicide in 1899, so when Duke Alfred died in 1900, he was succeeded by his nephew the Duke of Albany, the sixteen-year-old son of Queen Victoria's youngest son, Leopold.

The five-year-old princess, who later married the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, was at this point Philip and Mariana's only surviving child.