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... rank of captain in the same regiment , and served with it , at first in the West Indies , and afterwards in the disastrous expedition to Walcheren , and in the siege of Flushing . During the years from 1810 to 1812 he served in the ...
... rank of captain in the same regiment , and served with it , at first in the West Indies , and afterwards in the disastrous expedition to Walcheren , and in the siege of Flushing . During the years from 1810 to 1812 he served in the ...
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... rank of lieutenant - colonel , accepting the " unattached " about the same time , and in 1854 to that of * See Mitchell's ' Fall of Napoleon , ' vol . iii . p . 22 . major general . During the long period of peace after MEMOIR OF THE ...
... rank of lieutenant - colonel , accepting the " unattached " about the same time , and in 1854 to that of * See Mitchell's ' Fall of Napoleon , ' vol . iii . p . 22 . major general . During the long period of peace after MEMOIR OF THE ...
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... rank or post of trust in the English army , for he was living tranquilly at the Bohemian Court as Chamberlain to Wenzeslaus IV . , when the Hussite tempest , which he was so long destined to direct , first rose in black and threatening ...
... rank or post of trust in the English army , for he was living tranquilly at the Bohemian Court as Chamberlain to Wenzeslaus IV . , when the Hussite tempest , which he was so long destined to direct , first rose in black and threatening ...
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... ranks Scanderbeg among the seven chiefs who deserved without wearing a crown ; and there is much in the life of the Albanian Prince to merit the flattering opinion . But in the obscure monkish records of the period , Scan- derbeg is ...
... ranks Scanderbeg among the seven chiefs who deserved without wearing a crown ; and there is much in the life of the Albanian Prince to merit the flattering opinion . But in the obscure monkish records of the period , Scan- derbeg is ...
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... rank , who filled no high station , and never held any command , the honoured title of “ the knight without fear or reproach , " we are comparatively un- acquainted . We have no popular history of Bayard in our language , nor is there ...
... rank , who filled no high station , and never held any command , the honoured title of “ the knight without fear or reproach , " we are comparatively un- acquainted . We have no popular history of Bayard in our language , nor is there ...
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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.