The Quarterly Review, Volume 120John Murray, 1866 - English literature |
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... fact that , I apprehend , is unknown as to the Duke of Wellington , and it is a very important one .'- Notes on the Battle of Waterloo , by the late General Sir James Shaw Kennedy , K.C.B. , & c . London , 1865 . Unable Unable to marry ...
... fact that , I apprehend , is unknown as to the Duke of Wellington , and it is a very important one .'- Notes on the Battle of Waterloo , by the late General Sir James Shaw Kennedy , K.C.B. , & c . London , 1865 . Unable Unable to marry ...
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... fact there is nothing to be got in the army but credit , and as it is not always that the best intentions and endeavours to serve the public succeed , it is hard that when they do succeed they should not receive the approbation which it ...
... fact there is nothing to be got in the army but credit , and as it is not always that the best intentions and endeavours to serve the public succeed , it is hard that when they do succeed they should not receive the approbation which it ...
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... fact not sufficiently known that General Harris himself conducted the details of the victorious army which he commanded " in Mysore . ' This sentence is placed in the title - page of Mr. Lushington's Life of Lord Harris , in which he so ...
... fact not sufficiently known that General Harris himself conducted the details of the victorious army which he commanded " in Mysore . ' This sentence is placed in the title - page of Mr. Lushington's Life of Lord Harris , in which he so ...
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... fact is , that the night was very dark , that the enemy expected us , and were strongly posted in an almost impenetrable jungle , we lost one officer killed , and nine men of the 33rd wounded , and at last as I could not find out the ...
... fact is , that the night was very dark , that the enemy expected us , and were strongly posted in an almost impenetrable jungle , we lost one officer killed , and nine men of the 33rd wounded , and at last as I could not find out the ...
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... fact , we made war pretty much as Alexander the Great seems to have done , and as all men must do in such a country ... facts of the case , and to the principles involved in the particular war referred to . Although the Duke ...
... fact , we made war pretty much as Alexander the Great seems to have done , and as all men must do in such a country ... facts of the case , and to the principles involved in the particular war referred to . Although the Duke ...
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