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Page 38
... gold or silver , and six millions in goods , pro- visions , horses and cattle , besides surrendering a certain number of paintings , statues , vases , and 500 manuscripts , to be selected by the commissaries sent by the Directory . This ...
... gold or silver , and six millions in goods , pro- visions , horses and cattle , besides surrendering a certain number of paintings , statues , vases , and 500 manuscripts , to be selected by the commissaries sent by the Directory . This ...
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... gold , he departed with the French garrison , and the next day the Austrians entered Venice . The Venetian senator Pesaro came as imperial commissioner to administer the oaths . Thus ended the republic of Venice , after an existence of ...
... gold , he departed with the French garrison , and the next day the Austrians entered Venice . The Venetian senator Pesaro came as imperial commissioner to administer the oaths . Thus ended the republic of Venice , after an existence of ...
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... gold and silver of which were melted into bars and taken on board the French fleet , Bo- naparte left a garrison at Malta under General Vaubois , and embarked on the 19th for Egypt . As the French fleet sailed by the island of Candia ...
... gold and silver of which were melted into bars and taken on board the French fleet , Bo- naparte left a garrison at Malta under General Vaubois , and embarked on the 19th for Egypt . As the French fleet sailed by the island of Candia ...
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... gold of England . ' Alluding to the high character borne by the Rus- sian infantry , he added : This contest is of much importance to the honour of the French infantry . The question must be now finally settled whether the French ...
... gold of England . ' Alluding to the high character borne by the Rus- sian infantry , he added : This contest is of much importance to the honour of the French infantry . The question must be now finally settled whether the French ...
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... gold and silver , and you will not take what we have to give you ; but if you had taken what we have to give , we should have continued to produce it ; but as you would not take it , our people were intelligent enough to turn their ...
... gold and silver , and you will not take what we have to give you ; but if you had taken what we have to give , we should have continued to produce it ; but as you would not take it , our people were intelligent enough to turn their ...
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