Chambers's Repository of Instructing and Amusing Tracts, Volumes 1-3W. and R. Chambers, 1852 - English literature |
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... France - a lieutenant - general . General Danrémont obtained the African command ; and as it was deemed imperatively necessary to efface the failure before Constantina by the capture of that city , preparations , civil as well as ...
... France - a lieutenant - general . General Danrémont obtained the African command ; and as it was deemed imperatively necessary to efface the failure before Constantina by the capture of that city , preparations , civil as well as ...
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... France , as well as in other civilised com- munities , actually rewarded , with an air of courageous defiance of public opinion , which but thinly masked the real pusillanimity of their conduct the favour of the army being in issue ...
... France , as well as in other civilised com- munities , actually rewarded , with an air of courageous defiance of public opinion , which but thinly masked the real pusillanimity of their conduct the favour of the army being in issue ...
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... France ; and the French despatched to Scotland a body of as gallant troops as ever that high - spirited country sent forth . The queen - mother , Mary of Guise , was thereby in the ascendant , and Protestantism in peril . The Protestant ...
... France ; and the French despatched to Scotland a body of as gallant troops as ever that high - spirited country sent forth . The queen - mother , Mary of Guise , was thereby in the ascendant , and Protestantism in peril . The Protestant ...
Contents
THE STRUGGLE IN THE CAUCASUS NO 9 | 9 |
CURIOSITIES OF CRIMINAL LAW 10 | 10 |
A LEGEND OF GHENT 11 | 11 |
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