Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, a New Edition; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-Lexicon, Volume 13Francis Lieber Lea & Blanchard, 1851 |
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... troops of horsemen , spectre ships , & c . ( see Op- tics ) , of which phenomena the reader will find descriptions and explanations in Brewster's Natural Magic ( London , 1832 ) . Illusions are often also produced by the appearance of ...
... troops of horsemen , spectre ships , & c . ( see Op- tics ) , of which phenomena the reader will find descriptions and explanations in Brewster's Natural Magic ( London , 1832 ) . Illusions are often also produced by the appearance of ...
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... troops , maintaining an incessant and destructive guerilla war . Notwithstand- ing the great efforts of the royal com- manders , and their great numerical su- periority , he sustained a struggle for two years , at the end of which time ...
... troops , maintaining an incessant and destructive guerilla war . Notwithstand- ing the great efforts of the royal com- manders , and their great numerical su- periority , he sustained a struggle for two years , at the end of which time ...
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... troops in Spain , with orders to send whatever forces could be spared to Germany . 30,000 troops set off immedi- ately for that country . Their departure , and Marmont's defeat in the year previous , obliged the French to give up Madrid ...
... troops in Spain , with orders to send whatever forces could be spared to Germany . 30,000 troops set off immedi- ately for that country . Their departure , and Marmont's defeat in the year previous , obliged the French to give up Madrid ...
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... troops con- sisting entirely of volunteers ; e . g . the Prussian volunteer riflemen , attached to each battalion in the campaigns of 1813 , '14 and '15 , and the volunteer compa- nies of citizens raised , in 1794 , in Eng- land . These ...
... troops con- sisting entirely of volunteers ; e . g . the Prussian volunteer riflemen , attached to each battalion in the campaigns of 1813 , '14 and '15 , and the volunteer compa- nies of citizens raised , in 1794 , in Eng- land . These ...
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... troops on the island of Lobau . At ten o'clock in the evening , the first troops , in small num- bers , passed in boats over the Danube , and established themselves on the left bank , during a tremendous storm , and support- ed by a ...
... troops on the island of Lobau . At ten o'clock in the evening , the first troops , in small num- bers , passed in boats over the Danube , and established themselves on the left bank , during a tremendous storm , and support- ed by a ...
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