History of Charles XII, King of Sweden

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Roberts Brothers, 1883 - 352 sider
 

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Side 81 - ... the Duke of Holstein, who commanded the Swedish cavalry, received a cannon-shot in the back. The king asked if he was dead ; he was told (use on) that he was (que oui); he made no reply; (some) tears fell from his eyes; he (se) hid his (le) face [for] a moment with his (les) hands; then he rushed into the midst of the enemy at the head of his guards. The king of Poland did all that one should expect from a prince who was fighting for his crown; he himself brought back his troops three times to...
Side 315 - what has the bomb to do with the letter I am dictating to you ? Go on.
Side 50 - A general officer having represented to him the greatness of the danger, " Why ! do you imagine," said he, to him, " that with my eight thousand brave Swedes, I shall not be able to march over the bodies of eighty thousand Muscovites ?" A moment after, fearing that there appeared a little gasconade in these words, he...
Side 135 - This man, who never befieged a town which he did not take, nor fought a battle which he did not gain, was at St.
Side 255 - Every one then swore to obey the pasha's orders without delay, and were as impatient to begin the assault as they had been backward the day before. The word of command was immediately given ; the Turks marched up to the intronchmente ; the Tartars were already waiting for them, and the cannon began to play.
Side 247 - The kam, and especially the pasha of Bender, who had no mind to offer violence to the Swedish monarch, received with eagerness the offers of these two ministers. They had two conferences at Bender, in which they were assisted by the usher of the seraglio, and the grand master of the horse, who had brought the sultan's order, and the mufti's fetfa.
Side 347 - ... any more than his own ; rather an extraordinary than a great man, and more worthy to be admired than imitated.
Side 111 - It is situated between Finland and Ingria, in a marshy island, around which the Neva divides itself into several branches, before it falls into the Gulf of Finland...
Side 255 - Turks marched up to the fortifications; the Tartars were already waiting for them, and the cannon began to play. The janissaries on the one side, and the Tartars on the other...
Side 53 - King expunged with his own hand every circumstance in the relation that tended too much to his own honor or seemed to reflect upon the Czar. His modesty, however, could not hinder them from striking at Stockholm several medals to perpetuate the memory of these events. Among others they struck one which represented the King on one side, standing on a pedestal, to which were chained a Muscovite, a Dane, and a Pole...

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