George II

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Martin Rubin, The Crossover King; A heavy German accent and prickly manner, but also a shrewdness about politics, British interests and Handel. Wall Street Journal, July 1, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304070104576398663818968614.html
(book review on Andrew C Thompson, George II. Yale University Press, 2011)

Note:
(a) George II of Great Britain (1683-1760; reign 1727-1760)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_II_of_Great_Britain
(Predecessor George I; born at Hanover, Germany (House of Hanover); the last British monarch to have been born outside Great Britain; also the last British monarch to lead an army in battle (at Dettingen, in 1743))

* The book cover depicts George II in the thick of
Battle of Dettingen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dettingen
(June 27, 1743 at Dettingen in Bavaria during the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–48), George II won)

(b) Frederick the Great of Prussia (1712-1786; reign 1740-1786)
(c) Seven Years' War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War
(1756-1763; in US called French and Indian War (1754–1763))

* Louisiana (New France)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_(New_France)
(Table: 1682-1763; Split east to Great Britain 1763,  - Split west to Spain[along Mississippi River])  
* Louisiana Purchase
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase
(Napoleon Bonaparte returned Louisiana to French control from Spain in 1800, under the Treaty of San Ildefonso. However, the treaty was kept secret, and Louisiana remained under Spanish control until a transfer of power to France on November 30, 1803, just three weeks before the cession to the United States.)

(d) James II of England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_II_of_England
(1633-1701; reign 1685-1688; opposed as too pro-French, too pro-Catholic, and too much of an absolute monarch; succeeded by William and Mary in Glorious Revolution)
(e) Charles Edward Stuart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Edward_Stuart
(1720-1788; commonly known as Bonnie Prince Charlie or The Young Pretender; perhaps best known as the instigator of the unsuccessful Jacobite uprising of 1745, in which he led an insurrection which ended in defeat at the Battle of Culloden that effectively ended the Jacobite cause)

(f) philistine (n):
"1: a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia
2 often not capitalized a : a person who is guided by materialism and is usually disdainful of intellectual or artistic values"
(g) prepossessing (adj): "tending to create a favorable impression : ATTRACTIVE"

* prepossess (vt):
"obsolete : to take previous possession of
2: to cause to be preoccupied
3: to influence beforehand especially favorably"

(h) George Frideric Handel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Frideric_Handel
(1685-1759; German: Georg Friedrich Händel; born in Halle, Germany; died at London home; never married)
(i) sang-froid (adj; French literally cold blood): "self-possession or imperturbability especially under strain"

All definitions are from www.m-w.com.


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