 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu - Authors, French - 1901 - 464 pages
...man-of-war, or list for a soldier. I chose to be a soldier ; and in this post of a gentleman I served two campaigns in Flanders, was at the battles of Val...and Fontenoy, and received but one wound through the breast, which is troublesome to this day. (< When the peace came on, I was discharged ; and as I could... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - Biography - 1909 - 384 pages
...man-of-war, or list for a soldier. I chose the latter ; and, in this post of a gentleman, I served two campaigns in Flanders, was at the battles of Val...Fontenoy, and received but one wound, through the breast here ; but the doctor of our regiment soon made me well again. " When the peace came on I was... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1914 - 434 pages
...man-of-war, or list for ' a soldier. I chose the latter ; and, in this post of ' a gentleman, I served two campaigns in Flanders, was ' at the battles of...Fontenoy, and received but ' one wound, through the breast here ; but the doctor ' of our regiment soon made me well again. ' When the peace came on I... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark, Maxim Lieber - Short stories - 1925 - 1166 pages
...a man-of-war, or list for a soldier. I chose the latter, and in this post of a gentleman, I served two campaigns in Flanders, was at the battles of Val...and Fontenoy, and received but one wound through the breast here; but the doctor of our regiment soon made me well again. "When the peace came on I was... | |
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I chose the latter : and in this post of a gentleman I served two campaigns in Flanders, was at the battles of Val and Fontenoy, and received but one wound, through the breast here ; but the doctor of our regiment soon made me well again. 
