The Quarterly Review, Volumes 292-293William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero, George Walter Prothero J. Murray, 1954 |
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Page 456
... Marlborough certainly compares most favourably with Wellington , whose relations with the Spaniards and Portuguese were marked by a series of crises , and whose letters home are full of complaints of their alleged shortcomings . On the ...
... Marlborough certainly compares most favourably with Wellington , whose relations with the Spaniards and Portuguese were marked by a series of crises , and whose letters home are full of complaints of their alleged shortcomings . On the ...
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... Marlborough nor Wellington ever commanded the enormous armies which Napoleon led in his later campaigns . With one exception their opponents too were com- parable . The one exception was , of course , Napoleon himself . Marlborough ...
... Marlborough nor Wellington ever commanded the enormous armies which Napoleon led in his later campaigns . With one exception their opponents too were com- parable . The one exception was , of course , Napoleon himself . Marlborough ...
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... Marlborough , and par- ticularly was this so with regard to the campaign in the Peninsula . Professor Trevelyan writes , ' The war in the Peninsula came to cost England almost as much per year as the war in Flanders . That Marlborough ...
... Marlborough , and par- ticularly was this so with regard to the campaign in the Peninsula . Professor Trevelyan writes , ' The war in the Peninsula came to cost England almost as much per year as the war in Flanders . That Marlborough ...
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JULY 1953 | 17 |
Ancient and Modern Oratory | 28 |
From Past to Present | 30 |
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