The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Volume 36Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1799 |
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... Army in Perfon . He repairs to Bruf- fels , and is inaugurated as Sovereign of the Austrian Netherlands . He affumes the Command of the Allied Army . The French attacked and defeated near Landrecy . Siege of that Town undertaken . The ...
... Army in Perfon . He repairs to Bruf- fels , and is inaugurated as Sovereign of the Austrian Netherlands . He affumes the Command of the Allied Army . The French attacked and defeated near Landrecy . Siege of that Town undertaken . The ...
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... army , and acquiring both fame and fortune ; and all of them by a defire of maintaining the military reputa tion of Frenchmen . utmost extent their arms would powers . Obedience to the will enable them . The approaching and orders of ...
... army , and acquiring both fame and fortune ; and all of them by a defire of maintaining the military reputa tion of Frenchmen . utmost extent their arms would powers . Obedience to the will enable them . The approaching and orders of ...
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... army on the Rhine , where the fortune of war , notwithstanding fome very brilliant fucceffes , had not proved to extensively advanta- geous as in the Belgic provinces . The impetuous activity that marked the progress of the war on the ...
... army on the Rhine , where the fortune of war , notwithstanding fome very brilliant fucceffes , had not proved to extensively advanta- geous as in the Belgic provinces . The impetuous activity that marked the progress of the war on the ...
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... army , to with- bers of its people were become ir- draw the Pruffian forces from the refiftible : their enthufiafm over- territory of Mentz , and to station whelmed all oppofition , and the them at Cologne . He formally propagation of ...
... army , to with- bers of its people were become ir- draw the Pruffian forces from the refiftible : their enthufiafm over- territory of Mentz , and to station whelmed all oppofition , and the them at Cologne . He formally propagation of ...
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... army which the French administration intended for the operations in the Netherlands , amounted to more than 200,000 men . As it was there principally the decifive blow would be ftruck , nothing was omitted to render this ariny no lefs ...
... army which the French administration intended for the operations in the Netherlands , amounted to more than 200,000 men . As it was there principally the decifive blow would be ftruck , nothing was omitted to render this ariny no lefs ...
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