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Courage is like love: it must have hope for nourishment

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

Hubertusburg, Treaty of, 15 February 1763

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Treaty that ended fighing in the Seven Years War between Prussia and Austria, with Prussia under Frederick the Great victorious. The treaty guaranteed Prussian control of Silesia, and made Prussia the main power in Germany.
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