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... sufferings ? Did you ever behold it firing villages , and sacking cities , and desolating province after province , and butchering men , women , and children , by thousands ? If not , you know little of war ; and we wish to furnish you ...
... sufferings ? Did you ever behold it firing villages , and sacking cities , and desolating province after province , and butchering men , women , and children , by thousands ? If not , you know little of war ; and we wish to furnish you ...
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... SUFFERINGS incident to war . Think of the violence practised in pro- curing seamen and soldiers . Where the war - spirit is pre- dominant , they are forced into the army and navy at the pleasure of their rulers , and doomed to all the ...
... SUFFERINGS incident to war . Think of the violence practised in pro- curing seamen and soldiers . Where the war - spirit is pre- dominant , they are forced into the army and navy at the pleasure of their rulers , and doomed to all the ...
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... sufferings an- other day . I have often shuddered at the recital of whip- pings through the fleet , the keel - hauling , the spread - eagle , the gagging , the hand - cuffing , and other punishments in- flicted on sailors who have been ...
... sufferings an- other day . I have often shuddered at the recital of whip- pings through the fleet , the keel - hauling , the spread - eagle , the gagging , the hand - cuffing , and other punishments in- flicted on sailors who have been ...
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... sufferings , and from the infection of the air by putrefied carcasses of men and horses that strewed the roads , there sprang two dreadful epidemics , the dysentery and typhus fever . So fatal were these combined causes , that of 22,000 ...
... sufferings , and from the infection of the air by putrefied carcasses of men and horses that strewed the roads , there sprang two dreadful epidemics , the dysentery and typhus fever . So fatal were these combined causes , that of 22,000 ...
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... sufferings of the wounded left after battle on the open field , or crowded into hospitals , are shocking . Fifty days after the battle of Borodino , no less than 20,000 of the slain were found lying where they had fallen ; and the whole ...
... sufferings of the wounded left after battle on the open field , or crowded into hospitals , are shocking . Fifty days after the battle of Borodino , no less than 20,000 of the slain were found lying where they had fallen ; and the whole ...
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