... party. After Queen Anne's death in 1714, George I of England ascended to the throne and the Whig party usurped the Tory party's power base. This did not do well for either the Irish people or the Irish church. Thereafter, Swift devoted himself to being "a lifelong propagandist ... six Rebellions raised on that Account; wherein one Emperor lost his Life, and another his Crown. These civil commotions were constantly fomented by the Monarchs of Blefuscu; and when they were quelled, the Exiles always fled for Refuge to that Empire. It is computed, that eleven Thousand Persons ... was precisel...

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... greatest satires, Gulliver's Travels. Though the fist quarter of the seventeenth century was relatively peaceful, the second quarter was filled with much political corruption, upheaval, and fighting. In 1625, James I died and Charles I succeeded the throne. He appointed William Laud as Archbishop of ... , who was a devout catholic, succeeded Charles II in 1685. After James abdicated the throne, William and Mary, both Protestants, became joint monarchs in 1688. After their death, Mary's sister, Anne, became queen. In 1714, Queen Anne crated the nation of Great Britain by the ... out when...

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