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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... obliged them to abandon their works . Capt . Theodore , with 8 Greeks , joined us in order to do duty : and the day concluded with firing fome bombs at the enemy , as they returned to their works . Wedn . 5. Their batteries being very ...
... obliged them to abandon their works . Capt . Theodore , with 8 Greeks , joined us in order to do duty : and the day concluded with firing fome bombs at the enemy , as they returned to their works . Wedn . 5. Their batteries being very ...
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... obliged to streng- then them behind as we could , part of the caftle wall being fo weakened that it could not bear any repair in the old places . One man was killed , and 2 wounded . Wed. 16. Both fides continued a brifk fire ; the ...
... obliged to streng- then them behind as we could , part of the caftle wall being fo weakened that it could not bear any repair in the old places . One man was killed , and 2 wounded . Wed. 16. Both fides continued a brifk fire ; the ...
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... obliged to aband on it for fome time . We fet the windmill bat- tery on fire , which they extinguished , notwithstanding our continual fire up- on them . We had one man killed . During the night the enemy did greater damage to our works ...
... obliged to aband on it for fome time . We fet the windmill bat- tery on fire , which they extinguished , notwithstanding our continual fire up- on them . We had one man killed . During the night the enemy did greater damage to our works ...
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... obliged to abandon it again , with infinite lofs ; a conftant fire be- ing made from the princefs Carolina's Lunette , fuftained by fome of our piquets . The furvivors fled with great precipitation over the palifadoes , and flew back to ...
... obliged to abandon it again , with infinite lofs ; a conftant fire be- ing made from the princefs Carolina's Lunette , fuftained by fome of our piquets . The furvivors fled with great precipitation over the palifadoes , and flew back to ...
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... obliged to re- veal it . He feems , however , ftill to have been in fome degree irrefolute , for in his confeffion to a Francifcan friar he asked whether if a man was affaulted with a temptation to kill a king , and fhould confefs it to ...
... obliged to re- veal it . He feems , however , ftill to have been in fome degree irrefolute , for in his confeffion to a Francifcan friar he asked whether if a man was affaulted with a temptation to kill a king , and fhould confefs it to ...
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