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Peace of Westphalia   /pis əv wˈɛstfˌeɪliə/   Listen
Peace of Westphalia

noun
1.
The peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648.





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"Peace of Westphalia" Quotes from Famous Books



... rail up the valley of the Rhine to Bingebruck, near Bingen, and thence across through Saarbrucken to Remilly, where we left the railway and rode in a hay-wagon to Pont-a-Mousson, arriving there August 17, late in the afternoon. This little city had been ceded to France at the Peace of Westphalia, and although originally German, the people had become, in the lapse of so many years, intensely French in sentiment. The town was so full of officers and men belonging to the German army that it was difficult to get lodgings, but after some delay we found ...
— The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Complete • General Philip Henry Sheridan


Words linked to "Peace of Westphalia" :   peace, peace treaty, pacification


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