...French yoke, and married their young princess Mary to Maximilian, son of the emperor Frederic III. The Low Countries became the inheritance of the house of Austria, and the subject as well as theatre of a long series of wars, the most celebrated that have ever disturbed Europe....

...Louis XL, who in his youth had experienced the valour of the Swiss, inflamed the quarrel till it became irreconcileable. and then sat down the quiet spectator of the event. The gendarmerie of Burgundy was discomfited in three great battles, by the firm battalions of Swiss infantry,...

...XT., who in his youth had experienced the valour of the Swiss, inflamed the quarrel till it became irreconcileable. and then sat down the quiet spectator of the event. The gendarmerie of Burgundy was discomfited in three great battles, by the firm battalions of Swiss infantry,...

...French yoke, and married their young Princess Mary to Maximilian, son of the Emperor Frederic III. The Low Countries became the inheritance of the House of Austria, and the subject as well as theatre of a long series of wars, the most celebrated that have ever disturbed Europe.'...

...This marriage, which took place in 1477, is of great importance in the history of Germany; as by it the Low Countries became the inheritance of the house of Austria, and was the cause of a long series of wars, the most celebrated that ever desolated Europe. Mary of Burgundy...

...concludes the Decline and Fall; and after the Burgundian wars, in which the Swiss role is de-mythologised, the Low Countries became the inheritance of the House of Austria, and the 63 EE, p. 163. I* EE, pp. 175-6, 187. 65 EE, p. 167 ('the Arabs of Mauritania . . . spread the terror...