The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ..., Volume 36J. Dodsley, 1799 |
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... Allies . Plan of the enjuing Campaign proposed by the Auftrian Miniftry . Produces an Altercation , which ends in a Determination of the Emperor to command the Confederate Army in Perfon . He repairs to Bruf- fels , and is inaugurated ...
... Allies . Plan of the enjuing Campaign proposed by the Auftrian Miniftry . Produces an Altercation , which ends in a Determination of the Emperor to command the Confederate Army in Perfon . He repairs to Bruf- fels , and is inaugurated ...
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... allies on their first entering into action , the repeated defeats of the French ar- mies , and the reduction of fome of their ftrongest towns , induced the coalefced powers to imagine that the completion of their defigns would not meet ...
... allies on their first entering into action , the repeated defeats of the French ar- mies , and the reduction of fome of their ftrongest towns , induced the coalefced powers to imagine that the completion of their defigns would not meet ...
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... allied powers , they were fill doomed to greater calamities . The prodigious efforts of the French government evinced how strongly they were perfuaded , that , on the iffure of this campaign the confirma- tion of the deftruction of the ...
... allied powers , they were fill doomed to greater calamities . The prodigious efforts of the French government evinced how strongly they were perfuaded , that , on the iffure of this campaign the confirma- tion of the deftruction of the ...
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... allies in the latter part of the fore- going campaign , their armies ftill confifted of veteran troops , whom it was not easy to put to the rout . Flushed with the many victories they had gained over the Turks in the late Hungarian wars ...
... allies in the latter part of the fore- going campaign , their armies ftill confifted of veteran troops , whom it was not easy to put to the rout . Flushed with the many victories they had gained over the Turks in the late Hungarian wars ...
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... allies , were each to be blockaded by a force fufficient to cut off all affiftance , and to carry on a regular fiege at the moment when the other parts of the general plan were under ex . ecution . This plan was certainly Do lefs ...
... allies , were each to be blockaded by a force fufficient to cut off all affiftance , and to carry on a regular fiege at the moment when the other parts of the general plan were under ex . ecution . This plan was certainly Do lefs ...
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