A Military History of the Western World: From the defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588, to the Battle of Waterloo, 1815Funk & Wagnalls, 1954 |
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... lost in Glennagiveny Bay ; and the Nuestra Señora de la Rosa was beaten to pieces on the Blaskets . The San Marcos , San Juan , Triniada , Valencera , and Falcon Blanco Mediano were lost off the coast of Ireland , and the San Pedro ...
... lost in Glennagiveny Bay ; and the Nuestra Señora de la Rosa was beaten to pieces on the Blaskets . The San Marcos , San Juan , Triniada , Valencera , and Falcon Blanco Mediano were lost off the coast of Ireland , and the San Pedro ...
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... lost all order and stampeded . They lost 7,000 killed , 6,000 wounded and captured , all their artillery , 90 flags , and the whole of their train . Gustavus's losses , including the Saxons's , " did not exceed three thousand men ...
... lost all order and stampeded . They lost 7,000 killed , 6,000 wounded and captured , all their artillery , 90 flags , and the whole of their train . Gustavus's losses , including the Saxons's , " did not exceed three thousand men ...
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... lost her colonial empire and her navy , but was left in that financial ruin out of which emerged the French Revolution . " Thus then has France disappeared from North America , " exclaims Chateau- briand , " like those Indian tribes ...
... lost her colonial empire and her navy , but was left in that financial ruin out of which emerged the French Revolution . " Thus then has France disappeared from North America , " exclaims Chateau- briand , " like those Indian tribes ...
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