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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... rear guards , in rear , to hold off Drake , who was known to be at Plymouth . The dia- gram illustrates his suggested distribution , which if viewed from the rear might well appear to look like a crescent . As Drake had not been met ...
... rear guards , in rear , to hold off Drake , who was known to be at Plymouth . The dia- gram illustrates his suggested distribution , which if viewed from the rear might well appear to look like a crescent . As Drake had not been met ...
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... rear . At the same time he sent an order to Lobau to advance his corps to Fleurus . This last order introduces Napoleon's crucial blunder on June 16. When , at about 10 a.m. , he set out from Charleroi for Fleurus , he should , at the ...
... rear . At the same time he sent an order to Lobau to advance his corps to Fleurus . This last order introduces Napoleon's crucial blunder on June 16. When , at about 10 a.m. , he set out from Charleroi for Fleurus , he should , at the ...
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... rear ( chasseurs of the Middle Guard ) , or - as frequently happens - the head of the column stepped out more rapidly than the rear and got ahead of it , with the result that the column broke into two columns , and the rear one inclined ...
... rear ( chasseurs of the Middle Guard ) , or - as frequently happens - the head of the column stepped out more rapidly than the rear and got ahead of it , with the result that the column broke into two columns , and the rear one inclined ...
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