A Full and Correct Account of the Military Occurrences of the Late War Between Great Britain and the United States of America: With an Appendix, and Plates, Volume 1author, 1818 - Ontario |
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Page xix
... battle of New Orleans , ' with the battles of Cressy and Agincourt . ' This sudden change from naval to military warfare recalls the author's attention to the subject immediately before him . The first point he would press upon the ...
... battle of New Orleans , ' with the battles of Cressy and Agincourt . ' This sudden change from naval to military warfare recalls the author's attention to the subject immediately before him . The first point he would press upon the ...
Page xxii
... battles , by far the greater number are deficient in this important particular . With due acknowledge- ment to the American reviewer for the hint , the author produces , as a prominent example , the celebrated battle of Azincour . Hume ...
... battles , by far the greater number are deficient in this important particular . With due acknowledge- ment to the American reviewer for the hint , the author produces , as a prominent example , the celebrated battle of Azincour . Hume ...
Page xxiii
... battle , form the most important object . As the fairest means of ascertaining this , each party will be consi- dered as unquestionable authority for the amount of his own numbers ; unless an evident contradiction , or attempt to ...
... battle , form the most important object . As the fairest means of ascertaining this , each party will be consi- dered as unquestionable authority for the amount of his own numbers ; unless an evident contradiction , or attempt to ...
Page xxvi
... battle occurs , have to repeat remarks upon , what , without reference to the fair promises just noticed , may be termed , the staple commodity of American historians , a few words on the subject will not be out of place here . Our old ...
... battle occurs , have to repeat remarks upon , what , without reference to the fair promises just noticed , may be termed , the staple commodity of American historians , a few words on the subject will not be out of place here . Our old ...
Page xxvii
... battle recorded , wherein the superiority of numbers was not on the British side ; unless , indeed , an opposite state- ment would serve to heap disgrace upon a certain commander , because he happen as to differ , in political tenets ...
... battle recorded , wherein the superiority of numbers was not on the British side ; unless , indeed , an opposite state- ment would serve to heap disgrace upon a certain commander , because he happen as to differ , in political tenets ...
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