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Updated: June 23, 2025
The Elector of Saxony complained that bad winter quarters had been assigned to his troops; he therefore recalled them just when they should have been preparing to take the field, but very coolly offered to send them back if England and Holland would give him four hundred thousand rixdollars.
It seems that, instead of the four hundred thousand rixdollars which he had demanded, he consented to accept one hundred thousand and the Garter. His prime minister Schoening, the most covetous and perfidious of mankind, was secured by a pension. For the Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg, William, not without difficulty, procured the long desired title of Elector of Hanover.
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