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... formidable fleet . Com- bat between him and admiral Hood . The French take Tobago . The count de Grasse and admiral Hood prepare themselves for the execution of their plans of campaign . Intestine dissentions in the United States ...
... formidable fleet . Com- bat between him and admiral Hood . The French take Tobago . The count de Grasse and admiral Hood prepare themselves for the execution of their plans of campaign . Intestine dissentions in the United States ...
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... formidable a train of artillery , as well from the number of pieces , as from the skill of those who served it . This powerful apparatus was considered eminently requisite to disperse without effort an undisciplined enemy in the open ...
... formidable a train of artillery , as well from the number of pieces , as from the skill of those who served it . This powerful apparatus was considered eminently requisite to disperse without effort an undisciplined enemy in the open ...
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... formidable obstacles , per- suaded himself that its reduction would detain him but a very short time . He arrived under the walls of the place on the first of July . At the same time , the detachment of light troops which , as we have ...
... formidable obstacles , per- suaded himself that its reduction would detain him but a very short time . He arrived under the walls of the place on the first of July . At the same time , the detachment of light troops which , as we have ...
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... formidable were the impediments he encountered , from the bad- ness of the roads , rendered still more difficult by the continual rain , and from the weakness and tiring of horses in getting forward the artillery , that he was unable to ...
... formidable were the impediments he encountered , from the bad- ness of the roads , rendered still more difficult by the continual rain , and from the weakness and tiring of horses in getting forward the artillery , that he was unable to ...
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... formidable army of Gates , so broad a river as the Hudson . The roads above , from Batten Kill to Fort George , were much easier upon the left than those upon the right bank ; and in going down towards Albany , if they were not better ...
... formidable army of Gates , so broad a river as the Hudson . The roads above , from Batten Kill to Fort George , were much easier upon the left than those upon the right bank ; and in going down towards Albany , if they were not better ...
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