Annual Register, Volume 49Edmund Burke 1809 - History |
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... ground of which he could not be well acquainted , and farther and farther removed from supplies and reinforcements . The Russians , on the contrary , would receive re- inforcements and stores both by land and sea from Russia , Sweden ...
... ground of which he could not be well acquainted , and farther and farther removed from supplies and reinforcements . The Russians , on the contrary , would receive re- inforcements and stores both by land and sea from Russia , Sweden ...
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... ground or flattish hill , which , in the affair . It is scarcely possible , how- military phrascology of the French , eter , that the advantages gained are is called a plateaui * , which commands not greatly exaggerated , for it is noti ...
... ground or flattish hill , which , in the affair . It is scarcely possible , how- military phrascology of the French , eter , that the advantages gained are is called a plateaui * , which commands not greatly exaggerated , for it is noti ...
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... ground , tance of two feet . The point of di . which the Russians had so well de rection was lost , and the French fended the day before . columns , inclining too much to the To the military eye of Buonaparte , Jest , wandered about in ...
... ground , tance of two feet . The point of di . which the Russians had so well de rection was lost , and the French fended the day before . columns , inclining too much to the To the military eye of Buonaparte , Jest , wandered about in ...
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... ground covered with can- non - balls , howitzer shells , and am- munition ; twenty - four pieces of cannon , near which lay the bodies of their drivers , killed at the mo- ment when they were endeavouring to carry them off . All this ...
... ground covered with can- non - balls , howitzer shells , and am- munition ; twenty - four pieces of cannon , near which lay the bodies of their drivers , killed at the mo- ment when they were endeavouring to carry them off . All this ...
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... ground , inundations , the fort of into Silesia . And it was the appreWeischelmunde , garrison hension of such an auxiliary force , consisting of 12,000 Prussians and that determined Buonaparte to as . 6,000 Russians : the whole under ...
... ground , inundations , the fort of into Silesia . And it was the appreWeischelmunde , garrison hension of such an auxiliary force , consisting of 12,000 Prussians and that determined Buonaparte to as . 6,000 Russians : the whole under ...
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