The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ..., Volume 36J. Dodsley, 1799 - History |
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... Europe . Nor did the generality fcruple to predict , that , however adverfe fortune had proved to the allied powers , they were fill doomed to greater calamities . The prodigious efforts of the French government evinced how strongly ...
... Europe . Nor did the generality fcruple to predict , that , however adverfe fortune had proved to the allied powers , they were fill doomed to greater calamities . The prodigious efforts of the French government evinced how strongly ...
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... Europe , from the clofe of 1793 to the end of the enfuing February , the French troops began to act in a variety of places in the Netherlands . Their operations were not of an important nature , and were chiefly calculated to keep them ...
... Europe , from the clofe of 1793 to the end of the enfuing February , the French troops began to act in a variety of places in the Netherlands . Their operations were not of an important nature , and were chiefly calculated to keep them ...
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... Europe could ever poffibly fuc- great defigns it had held forth 16 ceed . " of his command , by a Prince of the The opinion and the refignation exalted character of the Duke of Brunfwick , was an epocha in the B4 history * See Vol ...
... Europe could ever poffibly fuc- great defigns it had held forth 16 ceed . " of his command , by a Prince of the The opinion and the refignation exalted character of the Duke of Brunfwick , was an epocha in the B4 history * See Vol ...
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... Europe , that a partition of the French monarchy was in reality the ultimate view of the Pruffian cabinet , and that it promifed itself an ample fhare of the fpoil . When it became evident that a fubjugation of France was impracticable ...
... Europe , that a partition of the French monarchy was in reality the ultimate view of the Pruffian cabinet , and that it promifed itself an ample fhare of the fpoil . When it became evident that a fubjugation of France was impracticable ...
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... Europe . To top the progrefs of an enemy that evi- dently aimed at their total fubver- fion , extraordinary measures were indifpenfable , and it behoved the diet warmly to concur in levying the fupplies prefcribed by ... EUROPE . EUROPE .
... Europe . To top the progrefs of an enemy that evi- dently aimed at their total fubver- fion , extraordinary measures were indifpenfable , and it behoved the diet warmly to concur in levying the fupplies prefcribed by ... EUROPE . EUROPE .
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