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This is a fact that , I apprehend , is unknown as to the Duke of Wellington , and it is a very important one .'- Notes on the Battle of Waterloo , by the late General Sir James Shaw Kennedy , K.C.B. , & c . London , 1865 .
This is a fact that , I apprehend , is unknown as to the Duke of Wellington , and it is a very important one .'- Notes on the Battle of Waterloo , by the late General Sir James Shaw Kennedy , K.C.B. , & c . London , 1865 .
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... fact there is nothing to be got in the army but credit , and as it is not always that the best intentions and endeavours to serve the public succeed , it is hard that when they do succeed they should not receive the approbation ...
... fact there is nothing to be got in the army but credit , and as it is not always that the best intentions and endeavours to serve the public succeed , it is hard that when they do succeed they should not receive the approbation ...
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We would quote , as an antidote , the result of his subsequent experience : It is " a fact ‡ not sufficiently known that General Harris himself conducted the details of the victorious army which he commanded " in Mysore .
We would quote , as an antidote , the result of his subsequent experience : It is " a fact ‡ not sufficiently known that General Harris himself conducted the details of the victorious army which he commanded " in Mysore .
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The fact is , that the night was very dark , that the enemy expected us , and were strongly posted in an almost impenetrable jungle , we lost one officer killed , and nine men of the 33rd wounded , and at last as I could not find out ...
The fact is , that the night was very dark , that the enemy expected us , and were strongly posted in an almost impenetrable jungle , we lost one officer killed , and nine men of the 33rd wounded , and at last as I could not find out ...
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In fact , we made war pretty much as Alexander the Great seems to have done , and as all men must do in such a ... It is equally out the question that Mr. Gleig should have invented a conversation directly contrary to the facts of the ...
In fact , we made war pretty much as Alexander the Great seems to have done , and as all men must do in such a ... It is equally out the question that Mr. Gleig should have invented a conversation directly contrary to the facts of the ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 120 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1866 |
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