The Pictorial History of England: Being a History of the People, as Well as a History of the Kingdom, Volume 7C. Knight, 1841 - Great Britain |
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... attack , drove the French out of their quarters near Cassel . Soon after this advantage the Prussian general Sybourg effected a junction with the Hanoverian general Sporken , took three thousand French prisoners , and in the month of ...
... attack , drove the French out of their quarters near Cassel . Soon after this advantage the Prussian general Sybourg effected a junction with the Hanoverian general Sporken , took three thousand French prisoners , and in the month of ...
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... attack Mexico and Peru , and all the Spanish settlements in South America . is possible , however , that Charles would long have avoided committing himself with England if France had not tempted him with the offer of Minorca and the ...
... attack Mexico and Peru , and all the Spanish settlements in South America . is possible , however , that Charles would long have avoided committing himself with England if France had not tempted him with the offer of Minorca and the ...
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... attack you publicly in all conversations , and now in writ- ing , personally , in the most audacious manner , reproach you witl following his example . " - Adolphus , Appendix . generally had to follow that minister's mutilated scheme ...
... attack you publicly in all conversations , and now in writ- ing , personally , in the most audacious manner , reproach you witl following his example . " - Adolphus , Appendix . generally had to follow that minister's mutilated scheme ...
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... attacks on the remaining French West India islands was equally successful . Mar- tinique , the chief of the French Caribbees ... attack and the hopelessness of any succour from their mother - country . Our naval force , besides , was ...
... attacks on the remaining French West India islands was equally successful . Mar- tinique , the chief of the French Caribbees ... attack and the hopelessness of any succour from their mother - country . Our naval force , besides , was ...
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... attack on the north of the Douro with an army of 22,000 men , commanded by the Marquis of Saria , who pre- sently took Braganza , Miranda , and Torre de Moncorvo . But , on drawing nearer to Oporto , Saria was checked by the militia and ...
... attack on the north of the Douro with an army of 22,000 men , commanded by the Marquis of Saria , who pre- sently took Braganza , Miranda , and Torre de Moncorvo . But , on drawing nearer to Oporto , Saria was checked by the militia and ...
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