Memoirs of Capt. George Carleton, an English Officer: Including Anecdotes of the War in Spain Under the Earl of Peterborough, and Many Interesting Particulars Relating to the Manners of the Spaniards in the Beginning of the Last Century |
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... dragoons , and stormed the caskets of the bankers of Genoa , without being able to offer them security . He gained possession of Catalonia , of the kingdoms of Valencia , Arragon , and Majorca , with part of Murcia and Castile , and ...
... dragoons , and stormed the caskets of the bankers of Genoa , without being able to offer them security . He gained possession of Catalonia , of the kingdoms of Valencia , Arragon , and Majorca , with part of Murcia and Castile , and ...
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... dragoons , were already on their march , which having joined , we marched together through Louquebar . This , sure , is the wildest country in the Highlands , if not in the world . I did not see one house in all our march ; and their ...
... dragoons , were already on their march , which having joined , we marched together through Louquebar . This , sure , is the wildest country in the Highlands , if not in the world . I did not see one house in all our march ; and their ...
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... dragoons , called the Scotch Greys , inclusive , ) with which he resolved , if possible , to give them a meeting . We left Inverness the last day of April , and encamped near a little town called Forrest , the place where , as tradi ...
... dragoons , called the Scotch Greys , inclusive , ) with which he resolved , if possible , to give them a meeting . We left Inverness the last day of April , and encamped near a little town called Forrest , the place where , as tradi ...
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... dragoons ; the latter was , by order of King William , ar- rested , in reprize of the garrison of Dix- muyd , who , contrary to the cartel , had been detained prisoners , and remained un- der arrest till they were set free . At the very ...
... dragoons ; the latter was , by order of King William , ar- rested , in reprize of the garrison of Dix- muyd , who , contrary to the cartel , had been detained prisoners , and remained un- der arrest till they were set free . At the very ...
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... Monjouick . The governor of the former , upon hearing the firing from the latter , immediately sent four hundred dragoons on horseback , un- der orders , that two hundred dismounting should reinforce the 134 MEMOIRS OF.
... Monjouick . The governor of the former , upon hearing the firing from the latter , immediately sent four hundred dragoons on horseback , un- der orders , that two hundred dismounting should reinforce the 134 MEMOIRS OF.
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