History of England Comprising the Reign of Queen Anne Until the Peace of Utrecht, 1701-1713, Volume 2J. Murray, 1872 |
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... forces , said Stanhope , have not been sent over by the Queen to pine away as garrisons . When joined to those already in Valencia -English and Dutch , Portuguese and Catalans — they would be more than a match for Berwick . Why then not ...
... forces , said Stanhope , have not been sent over by the Queen to pine away as garrisons . When joined to those already in Valencia -English and Dutch , Portuguese and Catalans — they would be more than a match for Berwick . Why then not ...
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... force , and the Resolution was especially hard - pressed . Mordaunt however maintained the conflict for several hours with great bravery ; until at last finding his ship much shattered he ran her on shore . The Earl , who had gone on ...
... force , and the Resolution was especially hard - pressed . Mordaunt however maintained the conflict for several hours with great bravery ; until at last finding his ship much shattered he ran her on shore . The Earl , who had gone on ...
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... force was far too small to strike a blow at the besiegers , and the garrison was reduced to capitulate , obtaining however advantageous terms . Then the two Dukes returned to France , and Charles found himself enabled , in spite of his ...
... force was far too small to strike a blow at the besiegers , and the garrison was reduced to capitulate , obtaining however advantageous terms . Then the two Dukes returned to France , and Charles found himself enabled , in spite of his ...
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... force of his re- sentment . But that wish was balanced by the impa- tience to march once more against his first enemy the Czar , and to wage a war in Muscovy as glorious , even though as toilsome , as his war in Poland , when , as his ...
... force of his re- sentment . But that wish was balanced by the impa- tience to march once more against his first enemy the Czar , and to wage a war in Muscovy as glorious , even though as toilsome , as his war in Poland , when , as his ...
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... forces on his own more immediate objects . Still however the great ascendancy of Marlborough prevailed in the end with the Court of Vienna . Prince Eugene was directed to lead an Austrian army to besiege Toulon , while the aid of the ...
... forces on his own more immediate objects . Still however the great ascendancy of Marlborough prevailed in the end with the Court of Vienna . Prince Eugene was directed to lead an Austrian army to besiege Toulon , while the aid of the ...
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Page 73 - To transport these by land would call for vast exertion and expose them to considerable risk. Still Marlborough persevered. " We have ordered " he writes " twenty battering pieces to be brought from Maestricht ; and we have taken measures for sixty more to be brought from Holland. The calculation of the number of draught horses to draw this artillery amounts to sixteen thousand, by which you will see the difficulties we meet with . . .; but we must overcome them or we shall have very little fruit...