The Quarterly Review, Volume 120John Murray, 1866 - English literature |
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... 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 other B 2 " with with a young blacksmith ...
... 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 other B 2 " with with a young blacksmith ...
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... 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 long ...
... 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 long ...
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... 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. It was ...
... 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. It was ...
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... position of the Governor- General , he considered himself very hardly used and in some measure disgraced in being superseded in that command at the last moment , after he had laboured so hard in the work of pre- paration . But it must ...
... position of the Governor- General , he considered himself very hardly used and in some measure disgraced in being superseded in that command at the last moment , after he had laboured so hard in the work of pre- paration . But it must ...
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... position near Assye . ' See also the Mem . vol . i . p . 390 , Gurwood , & c . , and Lieutenant , afterwards Sir Colin , Campbell's account , Supplementary Despatches , ' vol . iv . p . 184 ; also General Wellesley to Colonel Munro ...
... position near Assye . ' See also the Mem . vol . i . p . 390 , Gurwood , & c . , and Lieutenant , afterwards Sir Colin , Campbell's account , Supplementary Despatches , ' vol . iv . p . 184 ; also General Wellesley to Colonel Munro ...
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