débarquait en Sardaigrne: by the treaty of Utrecht

(171 3) Philip V. of Spain had ceded Gibraltar and Minorca to England. Sicily to Savoy, and Naples, Milan, Sardinia and the Xetherlands to Austria ; but instigated by his minister Alberoni, who wanted to restore Spain to its

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former splendeur, he soon invaded Sardinia and Sicily in the hope of stirring up a gênerai war which might enable him to exécute this ambitious design.

73. 12. qu'elle en ferait la conquête : the construction is not strictly grammatical, as the noun Sardaigne, to which the pronoun en and the article refer, is used indeterminately.