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... attack could be made on some weak Christino post . For such was the uncer- tainty of this description of warfare , that the queen's troops could never be certain from day to day of the real whereabouts of their enemies ; while to obtain ...
... attack could be made on some weak Christino post . For such was the uncer- tainty of this description of warfare , that the queen's troops could never be certain from day to day of the real whereabouts of their enemies ; while to obtain ...
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... attack or defence , was wholly wanting ; dull , harass- ing , and crushingly laborious watching , was the sole monotonous duty ; " the romance of war , " filled with the idea of which many a deceived youngster had left England , had no ...
... attack or defence , was wholly wanting ; dull , harass- ing , and crushingly laborious watching , was the sole monotonous duty ; " the romance of war , " filled with the idea of which many a deceived youngster had left England , had no ...
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... bakers were partly safe from attack that night . Blunt was not a man , how- ever , to trust to chance ; he visited his sentries every hour during the darkness of the night ; he examined The Captain's ' Baptism of Fire . ' 67.
... bakers were partly safe from attack that night . Blunt was not a man , how- ever , to trust to chance ; he visited his sentries every hour during the darkness of the night ; he examined The Captain's ' Baptism of Fire . ' 67.
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... attacked by the legionaries , with other Christino troops * Some of the bakers of Vittoria were subsequently tried on the charge of poisoning the ration - bread with oxalic acid , found guilty , and executed . from San Sebastian , in ...
... attacked by the legionaries , with other Christino troops * Some of the bakers of Vittoria were subsequently tried on the charge of poisoning the ration - bread with oxalic acid , found guilty , and executed . from San Sebastian , in ...
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... attack that might be made . " Just like my luck ! " he mused . " I shall never have a chance . Better for me to exchange into the infantry , who will either be attacked , or attack , here before very long . " Just then the door opened ...
... attack that might be made . " Just like my luck ! " he mused . " I shall never have a chance . Better for me to exchange into the infantry , who will either be attacked , or attack , here before very long . " Just then the door opened ...
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