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STADION, JOHANN PHILIPP KARL JOSEPH (1763—1824)

STADION, JOHANN PHILIPP KARL See also:
JOSEPH
JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)
JOSEPH (1763—1824) , See also:

AUSTRIAN

Austrian statesman, entered the See also:

DIPLOMATIC

diplomatic service and See also:

rose See also:

early to a high position. In 1790—1793 he was See also:

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador in See also:

LONDON

London. After some years of retirement he was entrusted (1800) with a See also:

MISSION

mission to the Prussian See also:

court, where he endeavoured in vain to effect an See also:

ALLIANCE

alliance with See also:

Austria. He had greater success as See also:

ENVOY (Fr. envoye, " sent ")

envoy at St See also:

PETERSBURG

Petersburg, where he played a large See also:

PART

part in the formation of the third See also:

COALITION (Lat. coalitio, the verbal substantive of coalescere, to grow together)

coalition against See also:

NAPOLEON

Napoleon (18o5). Notwithstanding the failure of this alliance he was made See also:

FOREIGN

foreign See also:

MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister, and in See also:

CONJUNCTION (from Lat. conjungere, to join together)

conjunction with the See also:

ARCHDUKE (Lat. archidux, Ger. Erzherzog)

archduke See also:

Charles pursued a policy of quiet preparation for a fresh trial of strength with See also:

France. In 18o8 he abandoned the policy of procrastination, and with the help of Metternich hastened the outbreak of a new See also:

war. The unfortunate results of the See also:

CAMPAIGN

campaign of 1809 compelled his resignation; but in 1813 he was commissioned to negotiate the See also:

convention which finally overthrew Napoleon. The last ten years of his See also:

LIFE

life were spent in a strenuous and partly successful See also:

ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to reorganize the disordered finances of his See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country. See A. See also:

BEER

Beer, Zehn Jahre osterreichischer Politik, 1801—1810 (See also:

LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1877); See also:

Die Finanzen Oesterreichs See also:

IM(K2+a2+h2—2 ah cos 0)

im I9 Jahrhundert (See also:

PRAGUE (Ger. Prag; Bohemian Praha)

Prague, 1877) ; Krones, Zur Geschichte Oesterreichs, 1792—1876 (See also:

GOTHA

Gotha, 1886).

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