Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... allied forces moved forward to the attack . Tallard was quite unprepared for an engage- ment , when the fog , lifting for a moment , showed the whole landscape before him peopled with moving battalions and fretted with the gleam of ...
... allied forces moved forward to the attack . Tallard was quite unprepared for an engage- ment , when the fog , lifting for a moment , showed the whole landscape before him peopled with moving battalions and fretted with the gleam of ...
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... , in which she stood fore- most in the fight . " - Alison's " Life of Marlborough , " ii . 432 . By all the known and ordinary rules of war , the position of the allied army at Dettingen was hopeless . 54 FIGHTS FOR THE FLAG.
... , in which she stood fore- most in the fight . " - Alison's " Life of Marlborough , " ii . 432 . By all the known and ordinary rules of war , the position of the allied army at Dettingen was hopeless . 54 FIGHTS FOR THE FLAG.
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With Portraits and Plans William Henry Fitchett. position of the allied army at Dettingen was hopeless . To the north rose , steep and trackless , and black with pines , the Spessart hills . To the south - its banks here and there ...
With Portraits and Plans William Henry Fitchett. position of the allied army at Dettingen was hopeless . To the north rose , steep and trackless , and black with pines , the Spessart hills . To the south - its banks here and there ...
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... allied army , barring its march . He had drawn 23,000 men across the Maine at Dettingen , cutting Lord Stair from his base at Hanau . And from Dettingen to Aschaffenburg French batteries , perched on the high southern bank of the Maine ...
... allied army , barring its march . He had drawn 23,000 men across the Maine at Dettingen , cutting Lord Stair from his base at Hanau . And from Dettingen to Aschaffenburg French batteries , perched on the high southern bank of the Maine ...
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... not , on the whole , exactly the leaders which the desperate task before the allied army needed . Neither had military science enough to know how desperate the situation was . A better general might have tried 62 FIGHTS FOR THE FLAG.
... not , on the whole , exactly the leaders which the desperate task before the allied army needed . Neither had military science enough to know how desperate the situation was . A better general might have tried 62 FIGHTS FOR THE FLAG.
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