Biographies of Eminent Soldiers of the Last Four CenturiesW. Blackwood and Sons, 1865 - 355 páginas |
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... enemy , who no sooner saw the Tabor- ites in open field and beyond the protection of the ram- parts , than they instantly prepared to attack them . Zisca , however , was fully equal to the danger that threatened him . Covering the front ...
... enemy , who no sooner saw the Tabor- ites in open field and beyond the protection of the ram- parts , than they instantly prepared to attack them . Zisca , however , was fully equal to the danger that threatened him . Covering the front ...
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... enemy even to the last , is a mere fiction without the slightest foundation in truth . Zisca was buried with all honours in the Church of St Paul's at Czaslaw , where a monument , with a Latin and Bohemian inscription , was erected to ...
... enemy even to the last , is a mere fiction without the slightest foundation in truth . Zisca was buried with all honours in the Church of St Paul's at Czaslaw , where a monument , with a Latin and Bohemian inscription , was erected to ...
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... enemy ; and the sanguinary contest which the Turks then waged against Buschowitz , Prince of Servia , offered the best prospect of terminating the career of Scanderbeg ; but the latter returned safe and successful from every encounter ...
... enemy ; and the sanguinary contest which the Turks then waged against Buschowitz , Prince of Servia , offered the best prospect of terminating the career of Scanderbeg ; but the latter returned safe and successful from every encounter ...
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... enemy , soon collected a force to meet him , and despatched the Pasha of Roumania and Scanderbeg with an army of 20,000 men in the first in- stance , promising to follow in person at the head of a still greater power . Arrived on the ...
... enemy , soon collected a force to meet him , and despatched the Pasha of Roumania and Scanderbeg with an army of 20,000 men in the first in- stance , promising to follow in person at the head of a still greater power . Arrived on the ...
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... enemy's territory . He also called an assembly of the chiefs and magnates together at Alessi , told them what they had to expect in case of defeat and inspired them all with the firm resolution to risk every- thing for liberty and ...
... enemy's territory . He also called an assembly of the chiefs and magnates together at Alessi , told them what they had to expect in case of defeat and inspired them all with the firm resolution to risk every- thing for liberty and ...
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Página 359 - Burton.— The History of Scotland, from the Revolution to the Extinction of the last Jacobite Insurrection (1689—1748).
Página 231 - He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.