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... taken and dismantled in 1482 . His poetry possesses no great merit : his principal work , entitled Libro d'Arme e d'Amore nomato Philogine , & c . , went through numerous editions at Parma and Venice . ( Biog . Univ . ) 2. Ottavio ...
... taken and dismantled in 1482 . His poetry possesses no great merit : his principal work , entitled Libro d'Arme e d'Amore nomato Philogine , & c . , went through numerous editions at Parma and Venice . ( Biog . Univ . ) 2. Ottavio ...
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... taken by the enemy . In June 1813 , he occupied , with a force of one hundred marines , the fort of Coll de Balognan , the fatigues and anxious responsibility of which post seriously affected his health . Returning to England in 1814 ...
... taken by the enemy . In June 1813 , he occupied , with a force of one hundred marines , the fort of Coll de Balognan , the fatigues and anxious responsibility of which post seriously affected his health . Returning to England in 1814 ...
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... taken prisoner . ( Hook's Life of Baird . Mill . Hist . Brit . India . B. iv . ch . 4. Com- pare Col. Wilks ' Sketches of South India , chap . xxii . ) He was taken to Seringa- patam , where he was confined in a dun- geon , and received ...
... taken prisoner . ( Hook's Life of Baird . Mill . Hist . Brit . India . B. iv . ch . 4. Com- pare Col. Wilks ' Sketches of South India , chap . xxii . ) He was taken to Seringa- patam , where he was confined in a dun- geon , and received ...
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... taken and put to death , after little more than a year's nominal reign . Four or five princes followed in rapid succession , the last of whom , Mourad , a brother of Baisankhor , was vanquished , in 1508 , by Shah Ismail , the founder ...
... taken and put to death , after little more than a year's nominal reign . Four or five princes followed in rapid succession , the last of whom , Mourad , a brother of Baisankhor , was vanquished , in 1508 , by Shah Ismail , the founder ...
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... taken on the 10th May 1631 , by Tilly , Bake , with his col- league Decenius , and more than a thou- sand people of every age and rank , took shelter in the church , which was not opened till the third day by order of Tilly . He ...
... taken on the 10th May 1631 , by Tilly , Bake , with his col- league Decenius , and more than a thou- sand people of every age and rank , took shelter in the church , which was not opened till the third day by order of Tilly . He ...
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