Prose and PoetryR. Hart-Davis, 1952 - 864 pages |
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Page 34
... command of Pembroke . On the open moor , not far from Chedzoy , were encamped several battalions of regular infantry . Monmouth looked gloomily on them . He could not but remember how , a few years before , he had , at the head of a ...
... command of Pembroke . On the open moor , not far from Chedzoy , were encamped several battalions of regular infantry . Monmouth looked gloomily on them . He could not but remember how , a few years before , he had , at the head of a ...
Page 154
... command , from Torres Vedras to Toulouse , would , if he had suffered it to contract habits of pillage , have become , in a few weeks , unfit for all military purposes . What then was likely to be the character of troops who , from the ...
... command , from Torres Vedras to Toulouse , would , if he had suffered it to contract habits of pillage , have become , in a few weeks , unfit for all military purposes . What then was likely to be the character of troops who , from the ...
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... command of Conflans , had put out to sea . It was over- taken by an English squadron under Hawke . Conflans attempted to take shelter close under the French coast . The shore was rocky : the night was black : the wind was furious : the ...
... command of Conflans , had put out to sea . It was over- taken by an English squadron under Hawke . Conflans attempted to take shelter close under the French coast . The shore was rocky : the night was black : the wind was furious : the ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND SELECTED PASSAGES II | 13 |
ESSAYS | 233 |
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