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| Title | Waterloo, the Downfall of the First Napoleon: A History of the Campaign of 1815 Bohn's standard library |
| Author | George Hooper |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | G. Bell, 1890 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 12 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 345 pages |
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