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... Italy is in revolt against Austria : the Latin races are in ferment , and the contagion of their movement is spreading over the Rhine and beyond the Alps . For a I APPOINTED SECOND LIEUT . IN ENGINEERS 13 moment it 12 LIFE OF CHARLES ...
... Italy is in revolt against Austria : the Latin races are in ferment , and the contagion of their movement is spreading over the Rhine and beyond the Alps . For a I APPOINTED SECOND LIEUT . IN ENGINEERS 13 moment it 12 LIFE OF CHARLES ...
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... Italy were laid ; and while the arms of France , Eng- land , and Russia were proving at Alma , Inkermann , Balaklava , and in the ten weary months of toil and bloodshed of the trenches , that the old arms and tactics of Frederick and ...
... Italy were laid ; and while the arms of France , Eng- land , and Russia were proving at Alma , Inkermann , Balaklava , and in the ten weary months of toil and bloodshed of the trenches , that the old arms and tactics of Frederick and ...
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... Italian fanatic had thrown a hand - grenade filled with fulminating powder at the Emperor of the French , killing some members of the suite . The fanatic , brought to trial , made little secret of his object , or base of opera- tions ...
... Italian fanatic had thrown a hand - grenade filled with fulminating powder at the Emperor of the French , killing some members of the suite . The fanatic , brought to trial , made little secret of his object , or base of opera- tions ...
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... Italian city , are prone to hurl their hymns on the Sabbath morning at the heads of the native heretics ; neither had he the smallest fellowship with another large class of persons who would divide religion into two parts -the muscular ...
... Italian city , are prone to hurl their hymns on the Sabbath morning at the heads of the native heretics ; neither had he the smallest fellowship with another large class of persons who would divide religion into two parts -the muscular ...
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... Italian named Romulus Gessi , had taken the field against the insurgents in the Bahr Gazelle in the summer of 1878 , moving from the Nile near Gondokoro . The operations were long and difficult ; many rivers had to be crossed , and an ...
... Italian named Romulus Gessi , had taken the field against the insurgents in the Bahr Gazelle in the summer of 1878 , moving from the Nile near Gondokoro . The operations were long and difficult ; many rivers had to be crossed , and an ...
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