The Life of NelsonAmalgamated Press, 1905 - 334 страници |
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... troops were encamped on a swampy and unwholesome plain , where they were joined by a party of the seventy - ninth regiment , from Black River , who were already in a deplorable state of sickness . Having remained here a month , they ...
... troops were encamped on a swampy and unwholesome plain , where they were joined by a party of the seventy - ninth regiment , from Black River , who were already in a deplorable state of sickness . Having remained here a month , they ...
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... troops which they had brought were no more : they had fallen , not by the hand of an enemy , but by the deadly influence of the climate . Nelson himself was saved by a timely removal . In a few days after the commencement of the siege ...
... troops which they had brought were no more : they had fallen , not by the hand of an enemy , but by the deadly influence of the climate . Nelson himself was saved by a timely removal . In a few days after the commencement of the siege ...
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... troops from Naples , to assist in garrisoning Toulon , so delighted him , that he is said to have exclaimed : " Sir William , you are a man after my own heart ! —you do business in my own way : " and then to have added , " I am now only ...
... troops from Naples , to assist in garrisoning Toulon , so delighted him , that he is said to have exclaimed : " Sir William , you are a man after my own heart ! —you do business in my own way : " and then to have added , " I am now only ...
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... troops : dressed a part of them like the people of the country , by which means they deceived and destroyed many of the patriots ; cut down the standing corn , the vines , and the olives ; set fire to the villages , and hung all the ...
... troops : dressed a part of them like the people of the country , by which means they deceived and destroyed many of the patriots ; cut down the standing corn , the vines , and the olives ; set fire to the villages , and hung all the ...
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... troops in the island effected this , they aimed at doing the people no farther mischief . Would that the conduct of England had been at this time free from reproach ! but a pro- clamation was issued by the English government , after the ...
... troops in the island effected this , they aimed at doing the people no farther mischief . Would that the conduct of England had been at this time free from reproach ! but a pro- clamation was issued by the English government , after the ...
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