In 1631 Gustavus II Adolphus of Sweden occupied Brandenburg, forcing the elector to join the Protestants, but, after the Swedish defeat by an imperial army at Nördlingen (1634), George William withdrew from the conflict.
Once the Allies had combined their forces, the Elector and Marsin moved their 40,000 troops into the entrenched camp between Dillingen and Lauingen on the north bank of the Danube.
Even if electors force a tie, the House would likely choose to elect Trump again.
The special session was called by Republican legislative leaders, who maintained that they were being forced to name electors.
As in Brandenburg, Frederick William ignored the privilege of the Prussian estates to confirm or veto taxes raised by the elector: while in 1656, an Akzise was raised with the estates' consent, the elector by force collected taxes not approved by the Prussian estates for the first time in 1674.
In the wake of these conquests by anti-Habsburg forces, in January 1742 the electors of the Holy Roman Empire rejected the candidacy of Maria Theresa's husband and chose as emperor Charles Albert of Bavaria (called Charles VII as emperor), the only non-Habsburg to serve in that capacity from 1438 to the empire's demise in 1806.
The Crown lands were to be also affected, as in July 1626 the Swedes took Pillau and forced Duke George William, Elector of Brandenburg and vassal of the Commonwealth in the attacked Ducal Prussia, to assume a neutrality stance.
But Hillary Clinton's big, expanding margin in the popular vote reduces the moral force of any argument that electors must somehow consider themselves bound to vote for Trump.
The electors will be forced to consider second- and third-place finishes when they cast their ballots.
Nationally, Tory council leaders have complained to Boles about housing targets that are "out of scale" and fear defeat at the polls if they are forced to build against their electors' wishes.
