The London Quarterly Review, Volume 15Theodore Foster, 1817 |
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... hundred fowling - pieces among them . A mason had purchased sixty pounds of powder for quarrying , and this depôt was a treasure . In the morning Roche Jaquelein put himself at their head , and addressed them in words which will be ...
... hundred fowling - pieces among them . A mason had purchased sixty pounds of powder for quarrying , and this depôt was a treasure . In the morning Roche Jaquelein put himself at their head , and addressed them in words which will be ...
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... hundred deserters and strangers to the country , who , having no homes , were always in the field . Whenever an expedition was planned , the peasants were summoned in every parish by the tocsin , and a requisition was read to them in ...
... hundred deserters and strangers to the country , who , having no homes , were always in the field . Whenever an expedition was planned , the peasants were summoned in every parish by the tocsin , and a requisition was read to them in ...
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... hundred were killed ; two hundred made prisoners ; D'Elbée was wounded . Lescure and Roche Jaquelein saved six guns ; all the rest of the artillery ( and Marie Jeanne with it ) was lost . Any other men would have been in despair at this ...
... hundred were killed ; two hundred made prisoners ; D'Elbée was wounded . Lescure and Roche Jaquelein saved six guns ; all the rest of the artillery ( and Marie Jeanne with it ) was lost . Any other men would have been in despair at this ...
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... hundred thousand were destroyed by them thus wantonly and in sport ! Rossignol offered a reward of ten livres for every pair of royalist ears ; it was actually claimed and paid , and there were men who wore human ears as cockades ...
... hundred thousand were destroyed by them thus wantonly and in sport ! Rossignol offered a reward of ten livres for every pair of royalist ears ; it was actually claimed and paid , and there were men who wore human ears as cockades ...
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... hundred heads were cut off in one day : it rained heavily at the time ; the gutters ran with a sanguine stream , and the mud of the streets was literally reddened with human blood ! Even this was but a prelude ! The representatives of ...
... hundred heads were cut off in one day : it rained heavily at the time ; the gutters ran with a sanguine stream , and the mud of the streets was literally reddened with human blood ! Even this was but a prelude ! The representatives of ...
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