General de KalbUniversity of North Carolina Press, 1966 - 251 էջ |
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... gave considerable thought to methods by which France might thwart the ever - growing power of her rival England . When in 1744 , in an effort to force the British to withdraw their troops from Flanders , Marshal de Saxe together with ...
... gave considerable thought to methods by which France might thwart the ever - growing power of her rival England . When in 1744 , in an effort to force the British to withdraw their troops from Flanders , Marshal de Saxe together with ...
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... gave up his company and retired in 1764 upon his pension as lieutenant colonel , 72 But just as little as Homer's Odysseus after twenty years of war and adventure , according to Dante and Tennyson , could rest inactive at his home in ...
... gave up his company and retired in 1764 upon his pension as lieutenant colonel , 72 But just as little as Homer's Odysseus after twenty years of war and adventure , according to Dante and Tennyson , could rest inactive at his home in ...
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... gave to his comportment a cast of amiability , extremely ingratiating , exciting confidence and esteem . Although nearer seventy than sixty years of age , such had been the temperance of his life that he not only enjoyed to the last day ...
... gave to his comportment a cast of amiability , extremely ingratiating , exciting confidence and esteem . Although nearer seventy than sixty years of age , such had been the temperance of his life that he not only enjoyed to the last day ...
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