Declaration of Pillnitz

(noun)

A statement issued on August 27, 1791 at Pillnitz Castle near Dresden (Saxony) by Frederick William II of Prussia and the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II who was Marie Antoinette's brother. It declared the joint support of the Holy Roman Empire and of Prussia for King Louis XVI of France against the French Revolution.

Related Terms

  • War of the Second Coalition
  • War of the First Coalition
  • Brunswick Manifesto
  • Feuillants
  • French Revolutionary Wars
  • Girondins
  • Jacobins

Examples of Declaration of Pillnitz in the following topics:

  • Foreign Intervention

    • In August 1791, Leopold and King Frederick William II of Prussia, in consultation with emigrant French nobles, issued the Declaration of Pillnitz, which declared the interest of the monarchs of Europe in the well-being of Louis and his family and threatened vague but severe consequences if anything should befall them.
    • Although Leopold saw the Pillnitz Declaration as a way of taking action that would enable him to avoid actually doing anything about France, at least for the moment, Paris saw the Declaration as a serious threat and the revolutionary leaders denounced it.
    • The meeting at Pillnitz Castle in 1791, oil painting by Johann Heinrich Schmidt.
    • The National Assembly of France interpreted the declaration to mean that Leopold was going to declare war.
    • Radical Frenchmen who called for war used it as a pretext to gain influence and declare war on April 20, 1792, leading to the campaigns of 1792 in the French Revolutionary Wars.
  • The Declaration of Independence

    • The Declaration was ultimately a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.
    • The Independence Day of the United States of America is celebrated on July 4, the day Congress approved the wording of the Declaration.
    • The most famous version of the Declaration, a signed copy that is usually regarded as the Declaration of Independence, is displayed at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
    • Although the wording of the Declaration was approved on July 4, the date of its signing was August 2.
    • Explain the major themes and ideas espoused by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence
  • [PF content: The Declaration of Independence]

  • The Unilateral Declaration of Independence

  • The Declaration of the Rights of Man

    • The spirit of secular natural law rests at the foundations of the Declaration.
    • Freedom of speech and press were declared and arbitrary arrests outlawed.
    • The Declaration, together with the American Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights, inspired in large part the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
    • The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789  by Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier.
    • Identify the main points in the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
  • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a non-binding declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, partly in response to the barbarism of World War II.
    • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot, Paris.
    • For this reason, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a fundamental constitutive document of the United Nations.
    • Eleanor Roosevelt with the Spanish language version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    • Understand the purpose and legal effect of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • Political Strife and American Independence

    • That same day the Virginia Convention instructed its delegation in Philadelphia to propose a resolution that called for a declaration of independence, the formation of foreign alliances, and a confederation of the states.
    • The records of the Continental Congress confirm that the need for a declaration of independence was intimately linked with the demands of international relations.
    • Congress would formally adopt the resolution of independence, but only after creating three overlapping committees to draft the Declaration, a Model Treaty, and the Articles of Confederation.
    • Congress next turned its attention to a formal explanation of this decision, the United States Declaration of Independence, which was approved on July 4 and published soon thereafter.
    • Describe the steps taken by the Continental Congress after declaring independence from the British Empire
  • The Declaration of Independence

    • Declaration of Independence.
    • Proponents of Lee’s resolution, however, argued that foreign governments were unlikely to grant aid to a party to an internal British struggle, making a formal declaration of independence even more urgent.
    • Moreover, many members of Congress already viewed the 13 colonies as de facto independent, making the declaration a mere formality rather than a revolutionary break from what already had been.
    • The text of the Declaration of Independence was drafted by a “Committee of Five” appointed by Congress, which consisted of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R.
    • The official title given to the document was “A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress Assembled.”
  • Ending Punctuation

    • Periods are used at the end of declarative or imperative sentences.
    • (declarative sentence containing an imperative statement)
    • Declarative sentences sometimes contain direct questions.
    • (declarative sentence with a direct question)
    • (declarative sentence that includes an exclamation)
  • Liberty and Property

    • On October 19, 1765, Congress drafted the Declaration of Rights and Grievances to protect British colonists from unconstitutional taxes.
    • To protect the rights of colonists, delegates of the Stamp Act Congress drafted the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, declaring that taxes imposed on British colonists without their formal consent were unconstitutional.
    • The Declaration of Rights raised fourteen points of colonial protest.
    • In Virginia, a series of resolutions were passed by the Virginia House of Burgesses in response to the Stamp Act of 1765.
    • Differentiate between the Declaration of Rights and Grievances and the Virginia Resolves
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