United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal, Том 110, Страница 1H. Colburn, 1866 |
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... never forget . The whole British line crowned the mountains , from wing to wing , looking like a wall of fire ... never to cut after the execution of Charles 1 ) , " when he was in London never failed to draw after him a great crowd of ...
... never forget . The whole British line crowned the mountains , from wing to wing , looking like a wall of fire ... never to cut after the execution of Charles 1 ) , " when he was in London never failed to draw after him a great crowd of ...
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... never never goes out of fashion . " At Minden , in 1759 , we find the luckless Lord George Sackville leading the cavalry in the same red coat which he had worn as a youth at Fontenoy ; and the same sentiment has prevailed in the humbler ...
... never never goes out of fashion . " At Minden , in 1759 , we find the luckless Lord George Sackville leading the cavalry in the same red coat which he had worn as a youth at Fontenoy ; and the same sentiment has prevailed in the humbler ...
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... never in one day made more than an ordinary march . " The loss in the battle was just 5,000 ; and 7,500 had straggled , from the effects of the plunder . Such cases are , however , exceptional , and the ordinary difficul- ties of ...
... never in one day made more than an ordinary march . " The loss in the battle was just 5,000 ; and 7,500 had straggled , from the effects of the plunder . Such cases are , however , exceptional , and the ordinary difficul- ties of ...
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... Never was an army placed in so desperate a position ; and never was such a position more gloriously and skilfully escaped . Pressed with famine , perishing with cold , five hundred leagues away from its base of operations , assailed in ...
... Never was an army placed in so desperate a position ; and never was such a position more gloriously and skilfully escaped . Pressed with famine , perishing with cold , five hundred leagues away from its base of operations , assailed in ...
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... never mind - I will take the little fellow who seems dying with thirst , and hunger . We will settle the account later . " " Very well , " said the Mayor . " Jean , " said the corporal . " What's his name ? " " Raymond , " added the ...
... never mind - I will take the little fellow who seems dying with thirst , and hunger . We will settle the account later . " " Very well , " said the Mayor . " Jean , " said the corporal . " What's his name ? " " Raymond , " added the ...
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