The Quarterly Review, Volumen219William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1913 |
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... better handled , are hardly less important . Yet , despite all this wealth of new material , the 19th century had closed before any real attempt was made to revise the received version of events . Napier's great reputation would hardly ...
... better handled , are hardly less important . Yet , despite all this wealth of new material , the 19th century had closed before any real attempt was made to revise the received version of events . Napier's great reputation would hardly ...
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... better history ; some civilian historians have learnt to appreciate the difficulties of soldiers . The importance of military history is much more generally recognised , and the attention which Oxford and Cam- bridge devote to it shows ...
... better history ; some civilian historians have learnt to appreciate the difficulties of soldiers . The importance of military history is much more generally recognised , and the attention which Oxford and Cam- bridge devote to it shows ...
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... suited him better than that they should undertake more than they could accomplish instead of concentrating upon Lisbon . Great Both Prof. Oman and Mr Fortescue give excellent accounts THE PENINSULAR WAR 13 The Ulster Covenant.
... suited him better than that they should undertake more than they could accomplish instead of concentrating upon Lisbon . Great Both Prof. Oman and Mr Fortescue give excellent accounts THE PENINSULAR WAR 13 The Ulster Covenant.
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... better than he did on the 27th . Masséna's dispositions for the attack are severely criticised by both writers ; he underrated his enemy , and , mistaking Picton's division , actually the right centre of the British , for the extreme ...
... better than he did on the 27th . Masséna's dispositions for the attack are severely criticised by both writers ; he underrated his enemy , and , mistaking Picton's division , actually the right centre of the British , for the extreme ...
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... better work than this . The French , ' says Colonel Henderson , ' had never encountered so mysterious an enemy ' as Wellington ( ' Science of War , ' p . 103 ) , and it was the rudest of shocks which this master of surprise administered ...
... better work than this . The French , ' says Colonel Henderson , ' had never encountered so mysterious an enemy ' as Wellington ( ' Science of War , ' p . 103 ) , and it was the rudest of shocks which this master of surprise administered ...
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