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In proof of a somewhat combative dis- position , ' two fights are recorded : the one with Bobus Smith , ' at whom , whilst swimming , he had - according to the old and questionable story - thrown a stone or ( only ) a clod , and the ...
In proof of a somewhat combative dis- position , ' two fights are recorded : the one with Bobus Smith , ' at whom , whilst swimming , he had - according to the old and questionable story - thrown a stone or ( only ) a clod , and the ...
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... and the position was taken as he had predicted " as a matter of course , " and without the loss of a man ! Thus , in this little affair - the first of the details of which we have any record - the only one in the whole course of his ...
... and the position was taken as he had predicted " as a matter of course , " and without the loss of a man ! Thus , in this little affair - the first of the details of which we have any record - the only one in the whole course of his ...
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... the position of the army was established before Seringa patam . Mr. Lushington * quotes a letter which was brought at this time by a native hurkarrah ( messenger ) to General Harris from Lord Mornington , dated 3rd of April , 1799.
... the position of the army was established before Seringa patam . Mr. Lushington * quotes a letter which was brought at this time by a native hurkarrah ( messenger ) to General Harris from Lord Mornington , dated 3rd of April , 1799.
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He had given up a lucrative and highly important office at Mysore , to take command , as he hoped , of this expedition , whatever its destination ; and then , scarcely appreciating the very delicate position of the Governor- General ...
He had given up a lucrative and highly important office at Mysore , to take command , as he hoped , of this expedition , whatever its destination ; and then , scarcely appreciating the very delicate position of the Governor- General ...
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The picquets of the infantry and the 74th Regiment , which were on the right of the first and second lines , suffered particularly from the fire of guns on the left of the enemy's position near Assye . ' See also the Mem . vol . i . p .
The picquets of the infantry and the 74th Regiment , which were on the right of the first and second lines , suffered particularly from the fire of guns on the left of the enemy's position near Assye . ' See also the Mem . vol . i . p .
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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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