The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ...J. Dodsley, 1789 - History |
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... Quebec . Defigns of. F all the wars which have ha- raffed Europe for more than a century had not proved it , the events of the laft campaign muft have fatisfied every thinking man , that victories do not decide the fate of nations . Four ...
... Quebec . Defigns of. F all the wars which have ha- raffed Europe for more than a century had not proved it , the events of the laft campaign muft have fatisfied every thinking man , that victories do not decide the fate of nations . Four ...
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State of the Engliß garrison at Quebec . Defigns of Monf . Levi . Preparations for a fiege . French army marches from Montreal . Their firength . Battle of Sillery . Gen. Murray defeated . Quebec befieged . The English fleet under Lord ...
State of the Engliß garrison at Quebec . Defigns of Monf . Levi . Preparations for a fiege . French army marches from Montreal . Their firength . Battle of Sillery . Gen. Murray defeated . Quebec befieged . The English fleet under Lord ...
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by the taking of Quebec . Indeed without the poffeffion of that place , It had been impoffible to reduce that country ; but fill a great deal re- mained to complete the advantage to which the taking of Quebec had only given an opening ...
by the taking of Quebec . Indeed without the poffeffion of that place , It had been impoffible to reduce that country ; but fill a great deal re- mained to complete the advantage to which the taking of Quebec had only given an opening ...
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... Quebec may well be confidered at leaft as a ftrong entrenchment . It is as hard to understand how the chance of holding out a fortress fhould not be leffened , after a defeat of the troops which compofe the garrifon , who muft ...
... Quebec may well be confidered at leaft as a ftrong entrenchment . It is as hard to understand how the chance of holding out a fortress fhould not be leffened , after a defeat of the troops which compofe the garrifon , who muft ...
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... Quebec intirely intercept- ed . Near one thousand men , fol- diers and officers ( a third of the army ) , had been by this time killed and wounded . Nothing could be now thought of but as fpeedy a re- treat as poffible ; and in this ...
... Quebec intirely intercept- ed . Near one thousand men , fol- diers and officers ( a third of the army ) , had been by this time killed and wounded . Nothing could be now thought of but as fpeedy a re- treat as poffible ; and in this ...
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