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Austrian Succession, War of the, Wars And Battles
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The war broke out when, on the strength of the pragmatic sanction of 1713, the Austrian archduchess Maria Theresa succeeded her father, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, as ruler of the Hapsburg lands. The elector of Bavaria, Charles Albert, advanced counterclaims to the succession while Philip V of Spain and Augustus III of Poland and Saxony advanced weak claims of their own. Frederick II of Prussia, on even less tenable grounds claimed part of the province of Silesia.
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• France
• Francis I, Holy Roman emperor
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• pragmatic sanction
• Prussia
• Saxe, Maurice, comte de
• Saxony
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• Walpole, Robert, 1st earl of Orford
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