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WAR OF THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Prussia and Austria fought over Silesia and most of the rest of Europe took sides; 1740-1748
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Instance hypernyms:
war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)
Meronyms (parts of "War of the Austrian Succession"):
Battle of Fontenoy; Fontenoy (a battle in 1745 in which the French army under Marshal Saxe defeated the English army and their allies under the duke of Cumberland)
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