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... Parma had achieved the most important exploit of all , in the acquisition of the town of Sluys . But these successes , valuable as they doubtless were , were far more than counterbalanced by losses and disappointments of a nature not ...
... Parma had achieved the most important exploit of all , in the acquisition of the town of Sluys . But these successes , valuable as they doubtless were , were far more than counterbalanced by losses and disappointments of a nature not ...
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... Parma has just experienced his first important humiliation , and has been beaten back from Bergen - op - Zoom . But , more than all , the prestige of Spain has suffered a deadly blow , and the implacable hostility of the British nation ...
... Parma has just experienced his first important humiliation , and has been beaten back from Bergen - op - Zoom . But , more than all , the prestige of Spain has suffered a deadly blow , and the implacable hostility of the British nation ...
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... Parma first began to threaten Antwerp . From the very first the Spanish general seems to have determined that the only feasible means of effecting its reduction was blockade ; and , to that end , it was necessary to close the passage of ...
... Parma first began to threaten Antwerp . From the very first the Spanish general seems to have determined that the only feasible means of effecting its reduction was blockade ; and , to that end , it was necessary to close the passage of ...
Strona 229
... Parma , distributed on either bank , guarded every approach by land ; but the water , long obedient to the Dutch , yet remained to be overcome , and to that object , Parma now devoted the whole vigour of his genius . Yet his genius ...
... Parma , distributed on either bank , guarded every approach by land ; but the water , long obedient to the Dutch , yet remained to be overcome , and to that object , Parma now devoted the whole vigour of his genius . Yet his genius ...
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broad highway between Zeeland and the beleaguered city , which Parma had no means of disputing . William of Orange had at once detected where the true defence of Antwerp lay , and almost with his dying breath had commended it to the ...
broad highway between Zeeland and the beleaguered city , which Parma had no means of disputing . William of Orange had at once detected where the true defence of Antwerp lay , and almost with his dying breath had commended it to the ...
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