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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... wrote : " The amazing advantage the Enemy derive from their ships and the command of the Water , keeps us in a state of constant perplexity and the most anxious conjecture . . . . " 3 On the day he wrote this , he decided to go north ...
... wrote : " The amazing advantage the Enemy derive from their ships and the command of the Water , keeps us in a state of constant perplexity and the most anxious conjecture . . . . " 3 On the day he wrote this , he decided to go north ...
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... wrote to Germaine bitterly complaining of this , and added : " For I must be free to own to Your Lordship , that I cannot place any Con- fidence in Vice Admiral Arbuthnot , who from Age , Temper , and Inconsistency of Conduct , is ...
... wrote to Germaine bitterly complaining of this , and added : " For I must be free to own to Your Lordship , that I cannot place any Con- fidence in Vice Admiral Arbuthnot , who from Age , Temper , and Inconsistency of Conduct , is ...
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... wrote to Cornwallis to say that the 3,000 men he had asked for need no longer be sent , and that Old Point Comfort should be occupied in order to secure Hampton Road.3 Also , on the same day , Cornwallis wrote to Clinton to suggest the ...
... wrote to Cornwallis to say that the 3,000 men he had asked for need no longer be sent , and that Old Point Comfort should be occupied in order to secure Hampton Road.3 Also , on the same day , Cornwallis wrote to Clinton to suggest the ...
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