Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 84W. Blackwood, 1858 |
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... close to the general hospital ; the number of sick admitted went on increasing ; no sanitary improvements were effected , and the mortality rose progressively month by month as follows : - 179 29 321 " 2 427 33 39 " " 99 " 9 27 " During ...
... close to the general hospital ; the number of sick admitted went on increasing ; no sanitary improvements were effected , and the mortality rose progressively month by month as follows : - 179 29 321 " 2 427 33 39 " " 99 " 9 27 " During ...
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... close to a hostile army . Dupin cri- ticises as a peculiar nationality the superb arrogance with which our statesmen and generals have ever spoken of auxiliaries and foreign mercenaries when engaged in the same operations with British ...
... close to a hostile army . Dupin cri- ticises as a peculiar nationality the superb arrogance with which our statesmen and generals have ever spoken of auxiliaries and foreign mercenaries when engaged in the same operations with British ...
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... close to truth and soundness on the point . " Why , " he says , " are jails rummaged for malefactors , and the Mint and prisons for debtors ? The war is an employ- ment of honour , and suffers some scandal in having men taken from the ...
... close to truth and soundness on the point . " Why , " he says , " are jails rummaged for malefactors , and the Mint and prisons for debtors ? The war is an employ- ment of honour , and suffers some scandal in having men taken from the ...
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... close behind them would have joined , and the consequence might have been a deadly struggle . To wait , however , till the 33d should come , involved a greater risk that the 35th , if kept waiting , might suspect the object , and break ...
... close behind them would have joined , and the consequence might have been a deadly struggle . To wait , however , till the 33d should come , involved a greater risk that the 35th , if kept waiting , might suspect the object , and break ...
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... close in on Sealkote on the night of the 8th July ; and while the residents , ignorant that a more than ordinary danger was at hand , resigned them- selves to rest , the traitorous troopers of the 9th Cavalry were planning with the ...
... close in on Sealkote on the night of the 8th July ; and while the residents , ignorant that a more than ordinary danger was at hand , resigned them- selves to rest , the traitorous troopers of the 9th Cavalry were planning with the ...
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