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... effect on or before the 10th day of June next . Without , however , the aid of naval means , this force will be comparatively inoperative , and necessarily dispersed , but with such aid , compe- tent to great objects . tions , as ...
... effect on or before the 10th day of June next . Without , however , the aid of naval means , this force will be comparatively inoperative , and necessarily dispersed , but with such aid , compe- tent to great objects . tions , as ...
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... effect ; but what were the real facts ? That the Americans made a feint of landing in one quarter , in which di- rection the British troops hastened , the real landing having been effected elsewhere almost without opposition . A short ...
... effect ; but what were the real facts ? That the Americans made a feint of landing in one quarter , in which di- rection the British troops hastened , the real landing having been effected elsewhere almost without opposition . A short ...
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... effect they should savages , without seeing any of them . The have had being not well manned , and for men were getting lost and falling into con- want of an artillery - officer , who would have fusion , natural under such circumstances ...
... effect they should savages , without seeing any of them . The have had being not well manned , and for men were getting lost and falling into con- want of an artillery - officer , who would have fusion , natural under such circumstances ...
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... effect ; for , the defence was entrusted to one hundred in course of three hours , the time the action and thirty - four dauntless young fellows from lasted , she fired 86 rounds , two - thirds of the country . " Besides these dauntless ...
... effect ; for , the defence was entrusted to one hundred in course of three hours , the time the action and thirty - four dauntless young fellows from lasted , she fired 86 rounds , two - thirds of the country . " Besides these dauntless ...
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... effect . " My Lord , " replied the actor , " here lies the secret ; you deliver your truths as if they were fictions ; but we deliver our fictions as if they were truths . " THE MOON . We assent to the opinion that the moon has not an ...
... effect . " My Lord , " replied the actor , " here lies the secret ; you deliver your truths as if they were fictions ; but we deliver our fictions as if they were truths . " THE MOON . We assent to the opinion that the moon has not an ...
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