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... -that attack failed , as Colonel Wellesley seems to have expected ; and next morning the very plan suggested in his letter of the day before was adopted— according to which , Colonel Wellesley turned the tope by a movement on both ...
... -that attack failed , as Colonel Wellesley seems to have expected ; and next morning the very plan suggested in his letter of the day before was adopted— according to which , Colonel Wellesley turned the tope by a movement on both ...
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The failure was , as it turned out , a trifling matter ; and no more would probably have been heard of it if it had happened to any one else ; but it afforded to our great soldier a lesson of the difficulties attendant upon such ...
The failure was , as it turned out , a trifling matter ; and no more would probably have been heard of it if it had happened to any one else ; but it afforded to our great soldier a lesson of the difficulties attendant upon such ...
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... troops in India having availed them- selves of such an expedient . boats on each of the rivers Toombuddra , Werdah , Malpoorba , Gutpurba , and Kistna , in the beginning of the month of June ; and I had turned my mind to Capt .
... troops in India having availed them- selves of such an expedient . boats on each of the rivers Toombuddra , Werdah , Malpoorba , Gutpurba , and Kistna , in the beginning of the month of June ; and I had turned my mind to Capt .
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But he , no doubt , received in the discharge of these functions lessons of human nature which his observant mind turned to good account in his subsequent dealings with men , both in war and diplomacy . We turn with pleasure from this ...
But he , no doubt , received in the discharge of these functions lessons of human nature which his observant mind turned to good account in his subsequent dealings with men , both in war and diplomacy . We turn with pleasure from this ...
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... for had we been farther from the door we should not have had strength to get at it . ' In this extremity they were surprised one day by having two other prisoners placed in the same cell with them , who turned out to ...
... for had we been farther from the door we should not have had strength to get at it . ' In this extremity they were surprised one day by having two other prisoners placed in the same cell with them , who turned out to ...
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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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