Fights for the Flag ...: With Portraits and PlansSmith, Elder, & Company, 15 Waterloo Place, 1906 - Всего страниц: 333 |
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... soldiers ; and they soon learnt to manœuvre fleets as they used to deploy battalions . They brought indeed some ... soldier - admirals carried something of the steadiest discipline and terrible fighting power of the famous Ironsides ...
... soldiers ; and they soon learnt to manœuvre fleets as they used to deploy battalions . They brought indeed some ... soldier - admirals carried something of the steadiest discipline and terrible fighting power of the famous Ironsides ...
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... soldier , though his defence of Taunton was perhaps the most brilliant single episode , on the Parliamentary side , in the great civil war . Of his sea exploits only the most picturesque and striking can be briefly sketched . He met Van ...
... soldier , though his defence of Taunton was perhaps the most brilliant single episode , on the Parliamentary side , in the great civil war . Of his sea exploits only the most picturesque and striking can be briefly sketched . He met Van ...
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... soldier on the march . He had to persuade Dutch deputies , English ministers , and Imperial states- men to consent to his strategy , and he obtained that consent by concealing its real scale from them almost as completely as he did from ...
... soldier on the march . He had to persuade Dutch deputies , English ministers , and Imperial states- men to consent to his strategy , and he obtained that consent by concealing its real scale from them almost as completely as he did from ...
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... soldiers who , in fight- ing quality , in the stubborn bulldog pluck that never recognises defeat , were equal to the Pictons , and Crau- furds , and Colin Campbells of a later date . Marlborough crossed the Rhine on May 26 ; on June 10 ...
... soldiers who , in fight- ing quality , in the stubborn bulldog pluck that never recognises defeat , were equal to the Pictons , and Crau- furds , and Colin Campbells of a later date . Marlborough crossed the Rhine on May 26 ; on June 10 ...
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... soldier . As Stanhope puts it , he was an Italian by descent , a Frenchman by training , and a German by adoption ; and in his signature , “ Eugenio von Savoye , " he used to combine the three languages . A little man , black- haired ...
... soldier . As Stanhope puts it , he was an Italian by descent , a Frenchman by training , and a German by adoption ; and in his signature , “ Eugenio von Savoye , " he used to combine the three languages . A little man , black- haired ...
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