Biographies of Eminent Soldiers of the Last Four CenturiesW. Blackwood and Sons, 1865 - 355 páginas |
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... person at the head of a still greater power . Arrived on the banks of the Morava , they found themselves in presence of the Servians , aided by Hungarian forces under the command of the celebrated John Hunyades , Ladislaus , King of ...
... person at the head of a still greater power . Arrived on the banks of the Morava , they found themselves in presence of the Servians , aided by Hungarian forces under the command of the celebrated John Hunyades , Ladislaus , King of ...
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... person against the Albanians . But Ladislaus , King of Poland and Hungary , was no sooner informed of the success of Scanderbeg , than he resolved to profit by it . He accordingly broke the truce and invaded the Turkish possessions ...
... person against the Albanians . But Ladislaus , King of Poland and Hungary , was no sooner informed of the success of Scanderbeg , than he resolved to profit by it . He accordingly broke the truce and invaded the Turkish possessions ...
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... person . A powerful army was assembled at Adrianople , which wild rumour described as so formidable that not only the Albanians , but all the nations bordering on the Turkish possessions- Hungarians , Poles , Greeks - flew rapidly to ...
... person . A powerful army was assembled at Adrianople , which wild rumour described as so formidable that not only the Albanians , but all the nations bordering on the Turkish possessions- Hungarians , Poles , Greeks - flew rapidly to ...
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... person , and endowed with extraordinary strength and good fortune , Scanderbeg appears before us as the most perfect soldier of his age . Unmatched in single combat , having , as we are told , slain no less than 3000 Turks with his own ...
... person , and endowed with extraordinary strength and good fortune , Scanderbeg appears before us as the most perfect soldier of his age . Unmatched in single combat , having , as we are told , slain no less than 3000 Turks with his own ...
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... Pontiff be- sieged in person . His Holiness had , however , a narrow escape when pro- ceeding to join his army . Bayard , informed of his move- ments , contrived to arrive with a hundred lances , THE CHEVALIER BAYARD . 43.
... Pontiff be- sieged in person . His Holiness had , however , a narrow escape when pro- ceeding to join his army . Bayard , informed of his move- ments , contrived to arrive with a hundred lances , THE CHEVALIER BAYARD . 43.
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Biographies of Eminent Soldiers of the Last Four Centuries John Mitchell,Leonhard Schmitz Visualização integral - 1865 |
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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.