The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ..., Volume 36J. Dodsley, 1799 |
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... continued to be nearly divided . This accounts for the alternate fucceffes that attended the contending armies , until the lather periods of the prefent cam- paign . As foon however as the greater part of the veteran troops in the ...
... continued to be nearly divided . This accounts for the alternate fucceffes that attended the contending armies , until the lather periods of the prefent cam- paign . As foon however as the greater part of the veteran troops in the ...
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... continued until it was very late in the day ; and victory long fluctuated be tween the oppofite parties . For- tune at length decided for the French : the allies were in every quarter repulfed with an immenfe flaughter : the enemy ...
... continued until it was very late in the day ; and victory long fluctuated be tween the oppofite parties . For- tune at length decided for the French : the allies were in every quarter repulfed with an immenfe flaughter : the enemy ...
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... continued with undefponding activity to op- pofe the enemy to the last . After the unfortunate battle of Fleurus , he placed himself in fo advantage- ous a pofition , that the French could not compel him to abandon it , until their ...
... continued with undefponding activity to op- pofe the enemy to the last . After the unfortunate battle of Fleurus , he placed himself in fo advantage- ous a pofition , that the French could not compel him to abandon it , until their ...
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... continued during that unhappy war , which terminated in their feparation from their parent ftate ; and they were now become louder and more rancorous than ever , fince the Seven United States had , against the confent of the nation , as ...
... continued during that unhappy war , which terminated in their feparation from their parent ftate ; and they were now become louder and more rancorous than ever , fince the Seven United States had , against the confent of the nation , as ...
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... continued cries ; which were repeated by all who heard them , until the whole country was alarmed . This was but a flow and imperfect mode of communication , when compared even with fignals by fire . The ancient Gaufs or Celts feem to ...
... continued cries ; which were repeated by all who heard them , until the whole country was alarmed . This was but a flow and imperfect mode of communication , when compared even with fignals by fire . The ancient Gaufs or Celts feem to ...
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