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... action , and , bidding an affectionate fare- well to this august body , under whose orders I have so long acted , I here offer my commission and take my leave of all the employments of public life . The great master of English fiction ...
... action , and , bidding an affectionate fare- well to this august body , under whose orders I have so long acted , I here offer my commission and take my leave of all the employments of public life . The great master of English fiction ...
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... action , and the world of men was his school . He was not a military genius like Hannibal , or Cæsar , or Napoleon , of which the world has had only three or four examples . But he was a great soldier of the type which the English race ...
... action , and the world of men was his school . He was not a military genius like Hannibal , or Cæsar , or Napoleon , of which the world has had only three or four examples . But he was a great soldier of the type which the English race ...
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... action Congress , and at the same time with indomi- table fighting spirit he planned to attack the a desperate undertaking in the face of such heavy odds , for in all his divisions he some six thousand men , and even these single hope ...
... action Congress , and at the same time with indomi- table fighting spirit he planned to attack the a desperate undertaking in the face of such heavy odds , for in all his divisions he some six thousand men , and even these single hope ...
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... action . the 15th it rained heavily , and the British forces occupied the time in intrenching themselves strongly upon the hill which meantime had already sent to Burgoyne for rein- forcements , and Burgoyne had detached Colonel they ...
... action . the 15th it rained heavily , and the British forces occupied the time in intrenching themselves strongly upon the hill which meantime had already sent to Burgoyne for rein- forcements , and Burgoyne had detached Colonel they ...
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... action , slipped British and German regulars stubbornly stood the American detachments , but the away between their ground . numbers of the It is difficult to get at the exact American troops , but Stark seems to have had between ...
... action , slipped British and German regulars stubbornly stood the American detachments , but the away between their ground . numbers of the It is difficult to get at the exact American troops , but Stark seems to have had between ...
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