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... must ever render the late war in India peculiarly interesting . Having got through this difficult , though pleasing task , we had only to gather up the gleanings of the war in other quarters ; and then , tracing those measures which led ...
... must ever render the late war in India peculiarly interesting . Having got through this difficult , though pleasing task , we had only to gather up the gleanings of the war in other quarters ; and then , tracing those measures which led ...
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... must have been a Mahometan , and a perfon of confideration , and that he had been repre- appears , fented to Mr. Haftings , as having a great share in fomenting the pre- fent troubles ) to request he would take the wounded fepoys into ...
... must have been a Mahometan , and a perfon of confideration , and that he had been repre- appears , fented to Mr. Haftings , as having a great share in fomenting the pre- fent troubles ) to request he would take the wounded fepoys into ...
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... must be the reduction of that fortrefs ; but it was unaffailable on that fide ; and it could not be invefted or at- tacked on the other , while the enemy were in poffeffion of the impracticable pafs of Suckroot , [ C ] which which lay ...
... must be the reduction of that fortrefs ; but it was unaffailable on that fide ; and it could not be invefted or at- tacked on the other , while the enemy were in poffeffion of the impracticable pafs of Suckroot , [ C ] which which lay ...
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... must be , either that they fhould immediately abandon their faftneffes at Lutteefpore and Pa- teetah , or be fhut up in them to certain deftruction . Bundoo Cawn fhewed fo much knowledge of the fubject , and fuch an affured con- fidence ...
... must be , either that they fhould immediately abandon their faftneffes at Lutteefpore and Pa- teetah , or be fhut up in them to certain deftruction . Bundoo Cawn fhewed fo much knowledge of the fubject , and fuch an affured con- fidence ...
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... must then be at his own difpofal . Exhaufted then as his patience , was , through the failure of France in fo long delaying to fulfil her engagements , whilft he was alone expofed to all the rigours of a molt dangerous war , how great ...
... must then be at his own difpofal . Exhaufted then as his patience , was , through the failure of France in fo long delaying to fulfil her engagements , whilft he was alone expofed to all the rigours of a molt dangerous war , how great ...
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