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| Title | The Theory of War: Illustrated by Numerous Examples from Military History |
| Author | Patrick Leonard Macdougall |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 13 Jun 2007 |
| ISBN | 0865777756, 9780865777750 |
| Length | 354 pages |
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