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... fighting until the Ameri- cans reached the City of Mexico , though there were numerous skirmishes - called battles - in which the Americans easily drove off their assailants . The conflict ceased to be a war and became a raid . The army ...
... fighting until the Ameri- cans reached the City of Mexico , though there were numerous skirmishes - called battles - in which the Americans easily drove off their assailants . The conflict ceased to be a war and became a raid . The army ...
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... fighting member of the Grant clique — Sheridan , let us say — at the head of the Army of the James . The answer is that he was afraid to depose this brazen Massachusetts politician for reasons which remain , on the whole , obscure and ...
... fighting member of the Grant clique — Sheridan , let us say — at the head of the Army of the James . The answer is that he was afraid to depose this brazen Massachusetts politician for reasons which remain , on the whole , obscure and ...
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... fighting man who became excited at times and shook his fist at the enemy . His chief military trait was headlong combativeness . He was much more of a fighting man than Grant , who detested war . Lee , on the contrary , loved war as one ...
... fighting man who became excited at times and shook his fist at the enemy . His chief military trait was headlong combativeness . He was much more of a fighting man than Grant , who detested war . Lee , on the contrary , loved war as one ...
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MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FAntasies | 25 |
THE UNWILLING Soldier | 38 |
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