Biographies of Eminent Soldiers of the Last Four CenturiesW. Blackwood and Sons, 1865 - 355 páginas |
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... forced to confess , his own bright prospects by that inconsistency and want of character which is too easily traced through the whole of his long and eventful reign . In December following his brother's death , the King of Hungary and ...
... forced to confess , his own bright prospects by that inconsistency and want of character which is too easily traced through the whole of his long and eventful reign . In December following his brother's death , the King of Hungary and ...
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... forced to leave the retreat of the Taborites unmolested . The short interval of repose that followed on this action was employed by the Hussite leader , who had hitherto fought with infantry only , in forming a corps of cavalry , and in ...
... forced to leave the retreat of the Taborites unmolested . The short interval of repose that followed on this action was employed by the Hussite leader , who had hitherto fought with infantry only , in forming a corps of cavalry , and in ...
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... forced to retire in confusion from the sanguinary contest . It is from this battle that the Wittkow hill derives the name of the Zisca - berg , which it bears to this day . Left by the flight of the royalists in possession of the ...
... forced to retire in confusion from the sanguinary contest . It is from this battle that the Wittkow hill derives the name of the Zisca - berg , which it bears to this day . Left by the flight of the royalists in possession of the ...
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... forced to resort . What may have been the impelling in- fluence that drove him from better thoughts to darker actions we pretend not to say ; nor shall we attempt to account for the melancholy discrepancy between the few words and many ...
... forced to resort . What may have been the impelling in- fluence that drove him from better thoughts to darker actions we pretend not to say ; nor shall we attempt to account for the melancholy discrepancy between the few words and many ...
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... forced to submit , acknowledge himself vassal to the Sultan , and surrender his four sons as hostages to the conqueror . The captive Princes were con- ducted to Adrianople , then the principal seat of the Otto- man power in Europe . The ...
... forced to submit , acknowledge himself vassal to the Sultan , and surrender his four sons as hostages to the conqueror . The captive Princes were con- ducted to Adrianople , then the principal seat of the Otto- man power in Europe . The ...
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Página 357 - OF ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE, From the Fall of Napoleon to the Accession of Louis Napoleon.
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.