The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ..., Volume 4J. Dodsley, 1762 - History |
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... town of Gottingen , in which they had placed a very strong gar- rifon ; and thus they hut us up on to their enterprizes . If we confider the fituation of the French armies , they will prefent us with the idea of an immenfe crefcent ...
... town of Gottingen , in which they had placed a very strong gar- rifon ; and thus they hut us up on to their enterprizes . If we confider the fituation of the French armies , they will prefent us with the idea of an immenfe crefcent ...
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... front , it was not here the grand object of our operations lay . Čaffel was to be reduced . The French had in that town a garrifon of feventeen feventeen , battalions , befides fome other corps , under For the YEAR 1761 . [ 9 ]
... front , it was not here the grand object of our operations lay . Čaffel was to be reduced . The French had in that town a garrifon of feventeen feventeen , battalions , befides fome other corps , under For the YEAR 1761 . [ 9 ]
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... town of Du- derstadt with the utmost violence ; and though he failed in his first at- , tempt , he repeated it with fo much fpirit , that at length he carried that town , and afterwards fome of the moft confiderable places near it . By ...
... town of Du- derstadt with the utmost violence ; and though he failed in his first at- , tempt , he repeated it with fo much fpirit , that at length he carried that town , and afterwards fome of the moft confiderable places near it . By ...
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... embarked in this expedition , foon drove them to the town , and laid all quite open to the intrenchments before it . The great difficulty difficulty now confifted in bring- ing forward the cannon , [ 16 ] ANNUAL REGISTER.
... embarked in this expedition , foon drove them to the town , and laid all quite open to the intrenchments before it . The great difficulty difficulty now confifted in bring- ing forward the cannon , [ 16 ] ANNUAL REGISTER.
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... town ; and they were carried without much lofs ; principally by the uncommon intrepidity of a corps of marines which had been but newly raised . No action of greater spirit and gal- lantry had been performed during the whole war . The town ...
... town ; and they were carried without much lofs ; principally by the uncommon intrepidity of a corps of marines which had been but newly raised . No action of greater spirit and gal- lantry had been performed during the whole war . The town ...
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