Final French Struggles in India and on the Indian Seas: Including an Account of the Capture of the Isles of France and Bourbon, and Sketches of the Most Eminent Foreign Adventurers in India Up to the Period of that Capture : with an Appendix Containing an Account of the Expedition from India to Egypt in 1801W.H. Allen, 1878 - 286 páginas |
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... military operations to a man without brains and without nerve . Probably in private life Duchemin was amiable and inoffensive . He was certainly not tor- mented by a constant desire to dare . These somewhat negative qualities ought to ...
... military operations to a man without brains and without nerve . Probably in private life Duchemin was amiable and inoffensive . He was certainly not tor- mented by a constant desire to dare . These somewhat negative qualities ought to ...
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... military , nayal , and commercial , had formed a sort of provisional administration . The first question to be solved was that of " how to live ? " This was answered in the manner I have indicated above . A few stray frigates and ...
... military , nayal , and commercial , had formed a sort of provisional administration . The first question to be solved was that of " how to live ? " This was answered in the manner I have indicated above . A few stray frigates and ...
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... military officers , and two French officers ( prisoners ) were in the cuddy taking tea , when suddenly there rushed upon them Pinaud at the head of a strong party of prisoners . Another division at the same time took possession of the ...
... military officers , and two French officers ( prisoners ) were in the cuddy taking tea , when suddenly there rushed upon them Pinaud at the head of a strong party of prisoners . Another division at the same time took possession of the ...
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... military affairs . " It was , indeed , at the outset a task which required no ordinary patience , perseverance , and self - control . But at length he had the satisfaction of seeing the end attained . Five months after he had enlisted ...
... military affairs . " It was , indeed , at the outset a task which required no ordinary patience , perseverance , and self - control . But at length he had the satisfaction of seeing the end attained . Five months after he had enlisted ...
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... military career , he proceeded to Lakhnao , and there on the advice of his old friend , Claude Martin , engaged in mercantile speculations which speedily augmented his capital . He was still engaged in these when he received from ...
... military career , he proceeded to Lakhnao , and there on the advice of his old friend , Claude Martin , engaged in mercantile speculations which speedily augmented his capital . He was still engaged in these when he received from ...
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French Struggles in India: Including an Account of the Capture of the Isles ... George Bruce Malleson Vista de fragmentos - 1977 |
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