The Quarterly Review, Volume 129John Murray, 1870 |
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... French troops of the best quality , with a marked superiority in guns . Lord Stanhope says ninety against sixty - six , the French writer , ninety or a hundred against fifty - two . The two armies confronted each other in a plain or ...
... French troops of the best quality , with a marked superiority in guns . Lord Stanhope says ninety against sixty - six , the French writer , ninety or a hundred against fifty - two . The two armies confronted each other in a plain or ...
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... French side of the stream , and choose his own time for the charge which he led in person about five in the evening . The French cavalry were ten thousand against eight ; they were posted on an ascent , and supported by three brigades ...
... French side of the stream , and choose his own time for the charge which he led in person about five in the evening . The French cavalry were ten thousand against eight ; they were posted on an ascent , and supported by three brigades ...
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... French writers say that his victory was already declared when he learnt the precarious con- dition of his right , which it was necessary to strengthen , if only to confirm his own success and prevent the exposure of his flank ; adding ...
... French writers say that his victory was already declared when he learnt the precarious con- dition of his right , which it was necessary to strengthen , if only to confirm his own success and prevent the exposure of his flank ; adding ...
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... French , according to Lord Stanhope , may be reckoned at 60,000 , and the allies at 62,000 . The French historians state that the troops of Villeroy were disposed as Marlborough himself would have desired . The whole of the left wing ...
... French , according to Lord Stanhope , may be reckoned at 60,000 , and the allies at 62,000 . The French historians state that the troops of Villeroy were disposed as Marlborough himself would have desired . The whole of the left wing ...
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... French army was not brought into action at all ; and a high French authority , Feuquières , says : " This battle is of the second kind of great actions , since there was in it but a front of our army , which necessarily attacked a front ...
... French army was not brought into action at all ; and a high French authority , Feuquières , says : " This battle is of the second kind of great actions , since there was in it but a front of our army , which necessarily attacked a front ...
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