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| Title | The Life of General, the Right Honourable Sir David Baird, Bart. ... Volume 1 of The Life of General, the Right Honourable Sir David Baird, Bart, Theodore Edward Hook |
| Author | Theodore Edward Hook |
| Publisher | R. Bentley, 1832 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 22 Nov 2007 |
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