The Edinburgh Annual Register, Band 1;Band 3Walter Scott John Ballantyne and Company, 1812 |
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... troops were finally obliged precipi . tately to retreat . I do not mean to condemn the conduct of the officers employed either in Spain or Walche- ren ; I believe they did their duty . There is no occasion to wonder at the awful events ...
... troops were finally obliged precipi . tately to retreat . I do not mean to condemn the conduct of the officers employed either in Spain or Walche- ren ; I believe they did their duty . There is no occasion to wonder at the awful events ...
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... troops in the very neighbour- hood of Trieste . How , then , would a diversion directed to that quarter have operated ? Our army would have kept in check the troops under Marmont and Macdonald , and would have ef- fectually prevented ...
... troops in the very neighbour- hood of Trieste . How , then , would a diversion directed to that quarter have operated ? Our army would have kept in check the troops under Marmont and Macdonald , and would have ef- fectually prevented ...
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... troops , disbanded soldiers , men who had been trained to the use of arms , and in habits of discipline and subor- dination . To meet such a force , the national guards of Paris could not have been sent , nor the armed Maré- chaussée of ...
... troops , disbanded soldiers , men who had been trained to the use of arms , and in habits of discipline and subor- dination . To meet such a force , the national guards of Paris could not have been sent , nor the armed Maré- chaussée of ...
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... troops as auxiliaries to the Dutch , thought it necessary to stipulate expressly that they should not be sent to Walche- ren during the noxious season , it be- ing well known that if they were sent there they must inevitably perish ...
... troops as auxiliaries to the Dutch , thought it necessary to stipulate expressly that they should not be sent to Walche- ren during the noxious season , it be- ing well known that if they were sent there they must inevitably perish ...
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... troops , whose distinguished and heroic valour had been unprofitably sacrificed in enterprizes productive ⚫ not of advantage , but of lasting in- jury to the country ; -enterprizes marked only by a repetition of form- er errors ; tardy ...
... troops , whose distinguished and heroic valour had been unprofitably sacrificed in enterprizes productive ⚫ not of advantage , but of lasting in- jury to the country ; -enterprizes marked only by a repetition of form- er errors ; tardy ...
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