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Henry Cabot Lodge. ington was destined to struggle through all the years of his military career , suffering from them , and triumphing in spite of them to a degree un- equalled by any other great commander . Din- widdie , the Scotch ...
Henry Cabot Lodge. ington was destined to struggle through all the years of his military career , suffering from them , and triumphing in spite of them to a degree un- equalled by any other great commander . Din- widdie , the Scotch ...
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... struggle , and was the beginning of a series of world - wide wars and social and political convulsions , which termi- nated more than half a century later on the plains of Waterloo . It gave immortality to an obscure French officer by ...
... struggle , and was the beginning of a series of world - wide wars and social and political convulsions , which termi- nated more than half a century later on the plains of Waterloo . It gave immortality to an obscure French officer by ...
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... struggle against incompetence and extravagance , and as if this were not enough , his sense of honor was wounded and his temper much irritated by the governor's playing false to the prisoners taken in the Jumonville fight . While thus ...
... struggle against incompetence and extravagance , and as if this were not enough , his sense of honor was wounded and his temper much irritated by the governor's playing false to the prisoners taken in the Jumonville fight . While thus ...
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... struggle against a savage foe in front , and narrow- ness , jealousy , and stupidity behind ; apparently without any chance of effecting anything , or gain- ing any glory or reward . Troops were voted , but were raised with difficulty ...
... struggle against a savage foe in front , and narrow- ness , jealousy , and stupidity behind ; apparently without any chance of effecting anything , or gain- ing any glory or reward . Troops were voted , but were raised with difficulty ...
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... struggle , and his outspoken condemnation of Dinwiddie's foolish schemes and of the shortcomings of the government began to raise up backbiters and malcontents at Williams- burg . My orders , " he said , " are dark , doubt- ful , and ...
... struggle , and his outspoken condemnation of Dinwiddie's foolish schemes and of the shortcomings of the government began to raise up backbiters and malcontents at Williams- burg . My orders , " he said , " are dark , doubt- ful , and ...
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