The Magazine of Magazines: Compiled from Original Pieces, with Extracts from the Most Celebrated Books, and Periodical Compositions, Published in Europe... The Whole Forming a Complete Literary and Historical Account of that Period..., Том 13Andrew Welsh, 1757 |
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... four fhot in exchange . Sunday 2. The French Beet ap- apeared fome leagues to the Weft , and in the afternoon a large party of the enemy advanced with imple- ments for erecting batteries towards Cape Mola ; but our fire from the fort ...
... four fhot in exchange . Sunday 2. The French Beet ap- apeared fome leagues to the Weft , and in the afternoon a large party of the enemy advanced with imple- ments for erecting batteries towards Cape Mola ; but our fire from the fort ...
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... four 32 pounders , which had the defired ef- fect ; however , a little before day , they opened another battery , which if I mistake not , is called a requafee . because of the elevation of the guns , in which pofition lefs powder is ...
... four 32 pounders , which had the defired ef- fect ; however , a little before day , they opened another battery , which if I mistake not , is called a requafee . because of the elevation of the guns , in which pofition lefs powder is ...
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... four hundred had been killed in the camp , as many wounded , and a great number fick of various difor- ders . The night coming on , the ri- gour of war feemed to flacken a little , by a flow firing on both fides , till a bout midnight ...
... four hundred had been killed in the camp , as many wounded , and a great number fick of various difor- ders . The night coming on , the ri- gour of war feemed to flacken a little , by a flow firing on both fides , till a bout midnight ...
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... Four men and two women were wounded before night , when the attack on both sides was as brifk as by day . We had one man killed by a cannon ball at the new ftone battery , and another by the fplinter of a thell . Monday naked into the ...
... Four men and two women were wounded before night , when the attack on both sides was as brifk as by day . We had one man killed by a cannon ball at the new ftone battery , and another by the fplinter of a thell . Monday naked into the ...
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... four 32 poun- ders from the royal battery , to replace thofe rendered useless . A very brisk fire was continued , and the enemy , from their 5 gun battery , deftroyed all our embrafures , difmounted one of our guns , and broke another ...
... four 32 poun- ders from the royal battery , to replace thofe rendered useless . A very brisk fire was continued , and the enemy , from their 5 gun battery , deftroyed all our embrafures , difmounted one of our guns , and broke another ...
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