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... effect of defign , we are prefented with a number of the beft - con- ducted and fevereft actions recorded in hiftory . We behold , in an unhappy contention between Eng- lishmen , the greatest exertions of military fkill , a valour which ...
... effect of defign , we are prefented with a number of the beft - con- ducted and fevereft actions recorded in hiftory . We behold , in an unhappy contention between Eng- lishmen , the greatest exertions of military fkill , a valour which ...
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... fatal , now produced no effect ; this was no lefs , than their falling in , after the feparation of the Spanish fleet , with Admiral Darby . But his force amounted 1 only to twenty - two fail of the line 5 only 4 ] ANNUAL REGISTER , 1781 .
... fatal , now produced no effect ; this was no lefs , than their falling in , after the feparation of the Spanish fleet , with Admiral Darby . But his force amounted 1 only to twenty - two fail of the line 5 only 4 ] ANNUAL REGISTER , 1781 .
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... effect . By the remains of one of thofe veffels , which were examined in the morning , the ap- peared to have been about the fize of a fifty gun fhip ; and from the quantity of unconfumed materials and combustibles which were found in ...
... effect . By the remains of one of thofe veffels , which were examined in the morning , the ap- peared to have been about the fize of a fifty gun fhip ; and from the quantity of unconfumed materials and combustibles which were found in ...
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... effect of thefe floating batteries from being , until the following year , fully experienced . While all the reft of Europe were entering into a confederacy , calculated for the fubverfion of the British naval power , the Queen of ...
... effect of thefe floating batteries from being , until the following year , fully experienced . While all the reft of Europe were entering into a confederacy , calculated for the fubverfion of the British naval power , the Queen of ...
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... effect in this controverfy , which his arguments of a different na- ture had ufually done in others . The elector ... effects generally juftified the prognoftication . Neither the particular novelty of the affait , nor the magnifience ...
... effect in this controverfy , which his arguments of a different na- ture had ufually done in others . The elector ... effects generally juftified the prognoftication . Neither the particular novelty of the affait , nor the magnifience ...
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