The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down to the Death of Lord Raglan, Volume 6W. Blackwood & Sons, 1880 - Crimean War, 1853-1856 |
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... command of the enemy , The Allied armies wholly dependent upon supplies brought by sea , And consequently upon the exertion of others , 4 5 CHAPTER II . THE WAR ADMINISTRATION OF FRANCE . The French system of war administration ...
... command of the enemy , The Allied armies wholly dependent upon supplies brought by sea , And consequently upon the exertion of others , 4 5 CHAPTER II . THE WAR ADMINISTRATION OF FRANCE . The French system of war administration ...
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... command of those very possessions which our people most bitterly needed , the enemy sometimes pastured his flocks - his immense flocks - of sheep under the eyes of our outlying sentries , and showed entirely at to any observers who ...
... command of those very possessions which our people most bitterly needed , the enemy sometimes pastured his flocks - his immense flocks - of sheep under the eyes of our outlying sentries , and showed entirely at to any observers who ...
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... command ; and reciprocally , there was a military element in the sense of duty , and the wholesome ambition which impelled him to do all he could towards becoming , like Carnot , the ' organiser of victory . ' If the chief was always a ...
... command ; and reciprocally , there was a military element in the sense of duty , and the wholesome ambition which impelled him to do all he could towards becoming , like Carnot , the ' organiser of victory . ' If the chief was always a ...
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... command of the Intendance home , down to the bakers who baked bread for the troops , and the cob- blers who mended their shoes , these functionaries , although busied in tasks like those performed by civilians , were still , in the ...
... command of the Intendance home , down to the bakers who baked bread for the troops , and the cob- blers who mended their shoes , these functionaries , although busied in tasks like those performed by civilians , were still , in the ...
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... command and administer such armed forces as Parliament might choose to provide ; but this formidable power - this power by which all other powers might be trampled down into nothing- ness — was it one that could really be exercised ...
... command and administer such armed forces as Parliament might choose to provide ; but this formidable power - this power by which all other powers might be trampled down into nothing- ness — was it one that could really be exercised ...
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