Frederick William III

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noun

1. 1770–1840, king of Prussia 1797–1840.

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Frederick William III British  

noun

1. 1770–1840, king of Prussia (1797–1840)

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Frederick William III

Some two months later, King Frederick William III of Prussia and Czar Alexander I of Russia led their troops in a triumphant parade through the French capital.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012

Still standing near the Emperor's park were the condescendingly quaint log houses of the Russian Colony which Frederick William III had built for his Russian musicians.

From Time Magazine Archive

Frederick William III lost all his possessions to the west of the Elbe and all that Prussia had gained in the second and third partitions of Poland.

From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by Robinson, James Harvey

Other despots died—Alexander I in 1825, the two Ferdinands, of Sicily and of Spain, Francis II himself in 1835, and Frederick William III in 1840.

From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by Cramb, J. A. (John Adam)

He was, perhaps, the chief adviser of Frederick William III in the laying of the foundations of the university, which was surely a notable venture for those trying years.

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell