The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 7G. Berger, 1868 - Anecdotes |
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... night , arrived by a circuitous route at the mountain by the break of day , and possessed themselves , with- out difficulty , of that advantageous post . Leonidas , being now satisfied of the impossibility of bearing up against the ...
... night , arrived by a circuitous route at the mountain by the break of day , and possessed themselves , with- out difficulty , of that advantageous post . Leonidas , being now satisfied of the impossibility of bearing up against the ...
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... night , they seized all the eminences that commanded the plain , and found means to conceal a good number of troops upon them . The next day they dispersed more cattle about the country than they had done before . The Fabii , being ...
... night , they seized all the eminences that commanded the plain , and found means to conceal a good number of troops upon them . The next day they dispersed more cattle about the country than they had done before . The Fabii , being ...
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... night , arrived by a circuitous route at the mountain by the break of day , and possessed themselves , with- out difficulty , of that advantageous post . Leonidas , being now satisfied of the impossibility of bearing up against the ...
... night , arrived by a circuitous route at the mountain by the break of day , and possessed themselves , with- out difficulty , of that advantageous post . Leonidas , being now satisfied of the impossibility of bearing up against the ...
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... night , they seized all the eminences that commanded the plain , and found means to conceal a good number of troops upon them . The next day they dispersed more cattle about the country than they had done before . The Fabii , being ...
... night , they seized all the eminences that commanded the plain , and found means to conceal a good number of troops upon them . The next day they dispersed more cattle about the country than they had done before . The Fabii , being ...
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... of mind , and cool and undaunted manner , saved him ; but in the night he had the seditious soldier put to death , and suspended from a window , where the whole army saw him exposed the next day . This 22 PERCY ANECDOTES .
... of mind , and cool and undaunted manner , saved him ; but in the night he had the seditious soldier put to death , and suspended from a window , where the whole army saw him exposed the next day . This 22 PERCY ANECDOTES .
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