The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 7G. Berger, 1868 - Anecdotes |
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... close with the Greeks they succeeded no better than the Medes and Cissians , being obliged to retire with great slaughter . The next day , the Persians , reflecting on the small number of their enemies , and supposing that so many of ...
... close with the Greeks they succeeded no better than the Medes and Cissians , being obliged to retire with great slaughter . The next day , the Persians , reflecting on the small number of their enemies , and supposing that so many of ...
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... close with the Greeks they succeeded no better than the Medes and Cissians , being obliged to retire with great slaughter . The next day , the Persians , reflecting on the small number of their enemies , and supposing that so many of ...
... close with the Greeks they succeeded no better than the Medes and Cissians , being obliged to retire with great slaughter . The next day , the Persians , reflecting on the small number of their enemies , and supposing that so many of ...
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... close with the Greeks they succeeded no better than the Medes and Cissians , being obliged to retire with great slaughter . The next day , the Persians , reflecting on the small number of their enemies , and supposing that so many of ...
... close with the Greeks they succeeded no better than the Medes and Cissians , being obliged to retire with great slaughter . The next day , the Persians , reflecting on the small number of their enemies , and supposing that so many of ...
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... close together , posted them- selves on a rising ground . The Persians poured in upon them on all sides , and a dreadful conflict ensu- ed ; till , at length , not vanquished , but overwhelmed by numbers , every man of the Greeks was ...
... close together , posted them- selves on a rising ground . The Persians poured in upon them on all sides , and a dreadful conflict ensu- ed ; till , at length , not vanquished , but overwhelmed by numbers , every man of the Greeks was ...
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... close to the town , demolished in all haste , and reconstructed over the river at a con- siderable distance . that the too great proximity of the city might be no temptation to her rapacious guests HEROISM . 23 CATHARINA THE HEROIC. ...
... close to the town , demolished in all haste , and reconstructed over the river at a con- siderable distance . that the too great proximity of the city might be no temptation to her rapacious guests HEROISM . 23 CATHARINA THE HEROIC. ...
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