Military Manners and CustomsChatto & Windus, 1885 - 284 páginas |
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... never losing sight of the fact that to all military customs there is a moral and human side which has been only too generally ignored in this connection . To read books like Grose's ' Military Antiquities , ' one would think their ...
... never losing sight of the fact that to all military customs there is a moral and human side which has been only too generally ignored in this connection . To read books like Grose's ' Military Antiquities , ' one would think their ...
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... never been printed in a form more popular than its official dress . It was from it that I first conceived the idea of the following pages , and in the sequel frequent reference will be made to it , as the source of the most trustworthy ...
... never been printed in a form more popular than its official dress . It was from it that I first conceived the idea of the following pages , and in the sequel frequent reference will be made to it , as the source of the most trustworthy ...
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... never , unfortunately , reached its final stage of a defi- nite code ; but it remains nevertheless the most authoritative utterance extant of the laws generally thought to be binding in modern warfare on the practices and passions of ...
... never , unfortunately , reached its final stage of a defi- nite code ; but it remains nevertheless the most authoritative utterance extant of the laws generally thought to be binding in modern warfare on the practices and passions of ...
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... never injure one another ; they remain friends , and assist each other in case of need , and buy and sell their fish whenever one has a larger quantity than the other , for if they were to fight we should have no fresh fish . ' Yet in ...
... never injure one another ; they remain friends , and assist each other in case of need , and buy and sell their fish whenever one has a larger quantity than the other , for if they were to fight we should have no fresh fish . ' Yet in ...
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... never be brought to the breach . Tilly is said to have replied , when he was entreated by some of his officers to check the rapine and bloodshed that has immortalised the sack of Magdeburg in 1631 : ' Three hours ' plundering is the ...
... never be brought to the breach . Tilly is said to have replied , when he was entreated by some of his officers to check the rapine and bloodshed that has immortalised the sack of Magdeburg in 1631 : ' Three hours ' plundering is the ...
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