The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Volume 36Edmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1799 |
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... never after abandoned them . Jourdain , the General who com- manded the French on that day , had now attained a degree of cele- brity , which rendered him the principal favourite of the foldiery . It was he who had first turned the tide ...
... never after abandoned them . Jourdain , the General who com- manded the French on that day , had now attained a degree of cele- brity , which rendered him the principal favourite of the foldiery . It was he who had first turned the tide ...
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... never fatisfactorily ascertained ; but it must have been very great . The British troops alone loft a thousand men , befides a confiderable train of artillery ; and the other divifions of the army , though lefs deeply engaged , could ...
... never fatisfactorily ascertained ; but it must have been very great . The British troops alone loft a thousand men , befides a confiderable train of artillery ; and the other divifions of the army , though lefs deeply engaged , could ...
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... never failed to fa- crifice to their vengeance when and wherever it could find them . Numbers had been regularly exe- cuted on being found in the other places taken by the French ; and it was become a matter of furprize that , knowing ...
... never failed to fa- crifice to their vengeance when and wherever it could find them . Numbers had been regularly exe- cuted on being found in the other places taken by the French ; and it was become a matter of furprize that , knowing ...
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... never ceafed to use their keeneft endea- vours to fubvert it , in order to render themselves abfolute mafters of the state . Herein they were conftantly abetted by thofe love . reigns with whom they had formed . family connections ...
... never ceafed to use their keeneft endea- vours to fubvert it , in order to render themselves abfolute mafters of the state . Herein they were conftantly abetted by thofe love . reigns with whom they had formed . family connections ...
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... never to be much reckoned upon . To build any hopes of either fubverting or reftoring empires by fuch means , in fo enlightened a quarter of the world , and fo skilful in all military ants as Europe , is extreme ignorance and folly . F3 ...
... never to be much reckoned upon . To build any hopes of either fubverting or reftoring empires by fuch means , in fo enlightened a quarter of the world , and fo skilful in all military ants as Europe , is extreme ignorance and folly . F3 ...
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