Annual Register, Volume 49Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1809 - History |
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... carried to a pitch of extravagance , on the side of the Russian as well as the French generals , altogether uuprecedented . That the French accounts were more to be depended on in general than the Russian , was clear from the evidence ...
... carried to a pitch of extravagance , on the side of the Russian as well as the French generals , altogether uuprecedented . That the French accounts were more to be depended on in general than the Russian , was clear from the evidence ...
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... carried off half a company of the voltigeurs of the 8th regiment of the line , who were at the ad- vanced posts of the cantonment . " 54th Bulletin of the grand French army , War- saw , January 27 , 1807. - But , in the same bulletin we ...
... carried off half a company of the voltigeurs of the 8th regiment of the line , who were at the ad- vanced posts of the cantonment . " 54th Bulletin of the grand French army , War- saw , January 27 , 1807. - But , in the same bulletin we ...
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... carry the day before , pre- sented itself still as the most im- portant object of attack . Till this should be carried the centre of his army could not act offensively against the enemy : for , in order to do this , it was necessary ...
... carry the day before , pre- sented itself still as the most im- portant object of attack . Till this should be carried the centre of his army could not act offensively against the enemy : for , in order to do this , it was necessary ...
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... carry off . Brandy and bread were carried to them , and they were successively carried to the ambulance , or train of carriages . On the space of a square league were seen 9 or 10,000 dead bodies ; 4 or 5,000 horses killed ; > whole ...
... carry off . Brandy and bread were carried to them , and they were successively carried to the ambulance , or train of carriages . On the space of a square league were seen 9 or 10,000 dead bodies ; 4 or 5,000 horses killed ; > whole ...
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... carried off one of his posts . The general of brigade , Fischer , pursu- ed , routed them , and killed 60 men , one ... carrying relief to Dantzig , by means of a maritime expedition , appeared very extraordinary to such military men as ...
... carried off one of his posts . The general of brigade , Fischer , pursu- ed , routed them , and killed 60 men , one ... carrying relief to Dantzig , by means of a maritime expedition , appeared very extraordinary to such military men as ...
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