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... fleet under the command of commodore Keppel , and the land forces under general Hodgfon arrived before Belleifle , on on the 7th of April , and on the 8th HISTORY [ 15 OF EUROPE . Queen Elizabeth's letter to Heaton, bishop of Ely.
... fleet under the command of commodore Keppel , and the land forces under general Hodgfon arrived before Belleifle , on on the 7th of April , and on the 8th HISTORY [ 15 OF EUROPE . Queen Elizabeth's letter to Heaton, bishop of Ely.
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... land and fea officers employed in the expedition were the fubject of very juft applaufe , who with fo no- ble a perfeverance , had struggled with , and had overcome fuch great difficulties , and who had the fpirit , after fuch a ...
... land and fea officers employed in the expedition were the fubject of very juft applaufe , who with fo no- ble a perfeverance , had struggled with , and had overcome fuch great difficulties , and who had the fpirit , after fuch a ...
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... land , under the treaty of Utrecht ; and , that this fifhery might be car- ried on with advantage , they like- wife required the reftitution of the ifle of Cape Breton , excluding them felves in return from erecting on that ifland any ...
... land , under the treaty of Utrecht ; and , that this fifhery might be car- ried on with advantage , they like- wife required the reftitution of the ifle of Cape Breton , excluding them felves in return from erecting on that ifland any ...
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... land . On the other hand , the place threatened a defence worthy of its former efforts . This city was VOL . IV . * from the beginning of the war of greater ftrength than it had com- monly been reprefented ; every at- tempt of the ...
... land . On the other hand , the place threatened a defence worthy of its former efforts . This city was VOL . IV . * from the beginning of the war of greater ftrength than it had com- monly been reprefented ; every at- tempt of the ...
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... land was abfolutely at an end ; and though the Ruffian fleet had been by a violent ftorm driven off the coaft , the fuccour from the fea was too precarious to be depended on . In this defperate fituation the prince of Wurtenburg became ...
... land was abfolutely at an end ; and though the Ruffian fleet had been by a violent ftorm driven off the coaft , the fuccour from the fea was too precarious to be depended on . In this defperate fituation the prince of Wurtenburg became ...
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