MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 73Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris 1896 |
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Page 149
... Bayonne and its neighbourhood , who had to choose between horse , mule , or donkey - back , either in saddle or cacolets , to com- pass the five miles of sand and swamp which divide Bayonne from Biarritz , for in those days roads were ...
... Bayonne and its neighbourhood , who had to choose between horse , mule , or donkey - back , either in saddle or cacolets , to com- pass the five miles of sand and swamp which divide Bayonne from Biarritz , for in those days roads were ...
Page 150
... Bayonne , faced Wellington on the ridge of Bidart , and although outside the line of actual fighting was visited by the mounted patrols of both armies . Small and dangerous as it was , how- ever , the Subaltern and his friends seem to ...
... Bayonne , faced Wellington on the ridge of Bidart , and although outside the line of actual fighting was visited by the mounted patrols of both armies . Small and dangerous as it was , how- ever , the Subaltern and his friends seem to ...
Page 151
... Bayonne , and far beyond them . It is the most prominent object in the landscape for many a mile , and its commanding height of close on three thousand feet , with a rocky hermitage , assumed to be impregnable , on the top , made it a ...
... Bayonne , and far beyond them . It is the most prominent object in the landscape for many a mile , and its commanding height of close on three thousand feet , with a rocky hermitage , assumed to be impregnable , on the top , made it a ...
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... Bayonne at the time . " The English General's policy , " it observes , " and the good discipline he main- tains do us more harm than ten battles ; every peasant wishes to be under his protection . " On one day alone , in December , 1813 ...
... Bayonne at the time . " The English General's policy , " it observes , " and the good discipline he main- tains do us more harm than ten battles ; every peasant wishes to be under his protection . " On one day alone , in December , 1813 ...
Page 156
... Bayonne and his magazines , to that sterile country of the Landes which , half swamp , half desert , produces nothing but turpentine , pine - wood , and a few wild boar , and where to this day the railway traveller from Bordeaux may see ...
... Bayonne and his magazines , to that sterile country of the Landes which , half swamp , half desert , produces nothing but turpentine , pine - wood , and a few wild boar , and where to this day the railway traveller from Bordeaux may see ...
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