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== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_73047" /> ==
 
<p> [[Emperor]] of [[Germany]] (1619-37), grandson of the preceding and son of Charles, younger brother of Maximilian II., born at Grätz; his detestation of the Protestants, early instilled into him by his mother and the Jesuits, under whom he was educated, was the ruling passion of his life, and involved the empire in constant warfare during his reign; an attempt on the part of Bohemia, restless under religious and political grievances, to break away from his rule, brought about the [[Thirty]] Years' War; by ruthless persecutions he re-established Catholicism in Bohemia, and reduced the country to subjection; but the war spread into [[Hungary]] and Germany, where Ferdinand was opposed by a confederacy of the [[Protestant]] States of [[Lower]] [[Saxony]] and Denmark, and in which the Protestant cause was in the end successfully sustained by the Swedish hero, Gustavus Adolphus ( <i> q. v </i> .), who had opposed to him the imperial generals Tilly and [[Wallenstein]] ( <i> q. v </i> .); his reign is regarded as one of disaster, bloodshed, and desolation to his empire, and his connivance at the assassination of [[Wallenstein]] will be forever remembered to his discredit (1578-1637). </p>
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<p> King of the Two Sicilies, grandson of the preceding and son of Francis I.; after the death of his first wife, a daughter of [[Victor]] [[Emmanuel]] I., he married the Austrian princess Maria-Theresa, and fell under the influence of [[Austria]] during the rest of his reign; in 1848 he was compelled to grant constitutional rights to his people, but was distrusted, and an insurrection broke out in Sicily; with merciless severity he crushed the revolt, and by his savage bombardment of the cities won him the epithet "Bomba"; a reign of terror ensued, and in 1851Europe was startled by the revelations of cruel injustice contained in Mr. Gladstone's famous Neapolitan letters (1810-1859). </p>
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<ref name="term_73045"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/ferdinand+ii.+(2) Ferdinand Ii. from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref>
<ref name="term_73047"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/ferdinand+ii. Ferdinand Ii. from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref>
       
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Ferdinand Ii. [1]

King of the Two Sicilies, grandson of the preceding and son of Francis I.; after the death of his first wife, a daughter of Victor Emmanuel I., he married the Austrian princess Maria-Theresa, and fell under the influence of Austria during the rest of his reign; in 1848 he was compelled to grant constitutional rights to his people, but was distrusted, and an insurrection broke out in Sicily; with merciless severity he crushed the revolt, and by his savage bombardment of the cities won him the epithet "Bomba"; a reign of terror ensued, and in 1851Europe was startled by the revelations of cruel injustice contained in Mr. Gladstone's famous Neapolitan letters (1810-1859).

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  1. ↑ Ferdinand Ii. from The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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