Archenholz, JOHANN WILHELM VON, born at Danzig in 1745, served in the army, passed ten years in England (1769-79), and died near Hamburg in 1812. His Geschichte des Siebenjährigen Krieges (1793) reached an eleventh edition in 1879. He also wrote England und Italien (1785); Annalen der Britischen Geschichte (20 vols. 1789-98); biographies of Queen Elizabeth and Gustavus Vasa, &c.
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