The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 7Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1811 - Artists |
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... head of 50,000 men ; threw the Spar- tans into the utmost terror ; restored liberty to the cities of the Peloponesus , and gave to Sparta new and implacable enemies by recalling into their country the fugitive Messenians . Upon his ...
... head of 50,000 men ; threw the Spar- tans into the utmost terror ; restored liberty to the cities of the Peloponesus , and gave to Sparta new and implacable enemies by recalling into their country the fugitive Messenians . Upon his ...
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... heads of the Greeks , dissatisfied with Pausanias , king of Lacedæmon , that he persuaded them to give to the Athenians the government of Greece . On this occasion he was made choice of to take cognizance of the wealth of all the Greek ...
... heads of the Greeks , dissatisfied with Pausanias , king of Lacedæmon , that he persuaded them to give to the Athenians the government of Greece . On this occasion he was made choice of to take cognizance of the wealth of all the Greek ...
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... head of a for- midable armament . The object of this expedition was the conquest of the country , and the consequent hope of destroying the power of Great Britain in India . On the 19th of May , 1798 , the fleet sailed from Toulon , and ...
... head of a for- midable armament . The object of this expedition was the conquest of the country , and the consequent hope of destroying the power of Great Britain in India . On the 19th of May , 1798 , the fleet sailed from Toulon , and ...
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... head of his troops , and crossing the Alps with unex- ampled celerity , proceeded to the attack of the Aus- trians on the plains of Marengo , over whom he obtained a decisive victory , and compelled Melas , the Austrian general , to ...
... head of his troops , and crossing the Alps with unex- ampled celerity , proceeded to the attack of the Aus- trians on the plains of Marengo , over whom he obtained a decisive victory , and compelled Melas , the Austrian general , to ...
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... famine in Rome , by the mono- poly of corn , and carrying his atrocity to such a pitch as to wish that the Roman people had only one head that he might cut it off at a single blow . The folly of Caligula was equal to his cruelty .
... famine in Rome , by the mono- poly of corn , and carrying his atrocity to such a pitch as to wish that the Roman people had only one head that he might cut it off at a single blow . The folly of Caligula was equal to his cruelty .
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