The Quarterly Review, Volume 219William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1913 - English literature |
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... British Preference in Canada . 9. The Training of a Queen . 10. Disraeli : the First Two Phases 11. The Majority Report of the Divorce Commission 12. The Strategy of the Balkan War 13. The Crisis in the Near East • • No. 435. - APRIL ...
... British Preference in Canada . 9. The Training of a Queen . 10. Disraeli : the First Two Phases 11. The Majority Report of the Divorce Commission 12. The Strategy of the Balkan War 13. The Crisis in the Near East • • No. 435. - APRIL ...
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... British Army . By the Hon . J. W. Fortescue . Vol . VII . London : Macmillan , 1912 . 4. Wellington's Battlefields illustrated : Bussaco . By Lieut . - Col . G. L. Chambers . London : Sonnenschein , 1910 . 5. Correspondence of Lord ...
... British Army . By the Hon . J. W. Fortescue . Vol . VII . London : Macmillan , 1912 . 4. Wellington's Battlefields illustrated : Bussaco . By Lieut . - Col . G. L. Chambers . London : Sonnenschein , 1910 . 5. Correspondence of Lord ...
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... British troops must be lurking behind every hill- side on which they could not be seen . Reminiscences of rude surprises in the Peninsula held Ney back during the critical hours of June 16 from attacking at Quatre Bras . The moral ...
... British troops must be lurking behind every hill- side on which they could not be seen . Reminiscences of rude surprises in the Peninsula held Ney back during the critical hours of June 16 from attacking at Quatre Bras . The moral ...
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... advanced into Spain some 10,000 British had remained in Portugal under Sir John Cradock , and when , 6 towards the end of February , Castlereagh decided to con- 8 THE PENINSULAR WAR Two Seventeenth-Century Men of Action.
... advanced into Spain some 10,000 British had remained in Portugal under Sir John Cradock , and when , 6 towards the end of February , Castlereagh decided to con- 8 THE PENINSULAR WAR Two Seventeenth-Century Men of Action.
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... without command of the sea . Ten days after the French arrived outside the city , the entry of a British garrison , soon raised to 8000 men and entrusted to that distinguished veteran 12 THE PENINSULAR WAR The Contest in the United States.
... without command of the sea . Ten days after the French arrived outside the city , the entry of a British garrison , soon raised to 8000 men and entrusted to that distinguished veteran 12 THE PENINSULAR WAR The Contest in the United States.
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