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... communications . The centre , it is true , was inundated by our troops , but , after all , we were rather encamped there than firmly established . These unsubdued provinces were protected by natural ob- stacles of great strength ...
... communications . The centre , it is true , was inundated by our troops , but , after all , we were rather encamped there than firmly established . These unsubdued provinces were protected by natural ob- stacles of great strength ...
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... communication , and to devote numberless troops to this purpose , which though sufficient for themselves , could never be of the slightest assistance to the other corps d'armée engaged on the more essential points of the Penin- sula ...
... communication , and to devote numberless troops to this purpose , which though sufficient for themselves , could never be of the slightest assistance to the other corps d'armée engaged on the more essential points of the Penin- sula ...
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... communication which were so rapidly exhausting our troops , by creating around us a desert in which we should find it im- possible to live . To stand out under these restricted but vigorously conceived conditions , and to resist with ...
... communication which were so rapidly exhausting our troops , by creating around us a desert in which we should find it im- possible to live . To stand out under these restricted but vigorously conceived conditions , and to resist with ...
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... communications . It was an official return , entitled , ' Position of the troops of the French Empire at the date of June 1 , 1810. ' From the study of this paper he learned the stations occupied by our army in every dependency of the ...
... communications . It was an official return , entitled , ' Position of the troops of the French Empire at the date of June 1 , 1810. ' From the study of this paper he learned the stations occupied by our army in every dependency of the ...
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... communications entailed by the taking of Coïmbra , and the loss of the 5000 men left there , produced a most disastrous moral effect upon our army , but in no wise abated Masséna's courage . In this moment of supreme peril , although ...
... communications entailed by the taking of Coïmbra , and the loss of the 5000 men left there , produced a most disastrous moral effect upon our army , but in no wise abated Masséna's courage . In this moment of supreme peril , although ...
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