![]() In 1745, at Fontenoy in the Austrian Netherlands, a French army under the redoubtable Marshal de Saxe, clashed with a Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian force. ![]() The French, naturally, opposed the Austrian Hapsburgs. The war quickly became a European affair as old enmities surfaced once again. Frederick II of Prussia, however, used the dispute to invade Silesia in 1740 to enhance Prussian power and prestige. Despite this, Maria Theresa succeeded to most of her father's possessions, and there was an understanding among many German princes that her husband could be elected Emperor. ![]() The War of the Austrian Succession had its roots in the ancient Salic law that said no woman could inherit the Holy Roman Empire.
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