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... prisoners . Battle of Verona . The enemy attacked our chain of ad- vanced pofts very early in the morning of the 26th . - Lieut . Gen. Keim imme- diately marched thither , and finding that the enemy's attack was principally di- rected ...
... prisoners . Battle of Verona . The enemy attacked our chain of ad- vanced pofts very early in the morning of the 26th . - Lieut . Gen. Keim imme- diately marched thither , and finding that the enemy's attack was principally di- rected ...
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... prisoners , amongst whom were 2 chiefs of battalions , and 35 officers . The General fays , that it was impoffible for him to make a lift of thefe who diftinguifhed themselves : each had fhewn the most invincible courage , and every ...
... prisoners , amongst whom were 2 chiefs of battalions , and 35 officers . The General fays , that it was impoffible for him to make a lift of thefe who diftinguifhed themselves : each had fhewn the most invincible courage , and every ...
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... prisoners , would be returned . Vienna , April 10 , The Field - Marshal Lieutenant Counte de Bellegarde has fent the following account ? Schluderns , April 5 . The enemy having penetrated into the Tyrol , the Field - Marhal Lieutenant ...
... prisoners , would be returned . Vienna , April 10 , The Field - Marshal Lieutenant Counte de Bellegarde has fent the following account ? Schluderns , April 5 . The enemy having penetrated into the Tyrol , the Field - Marhal Lieutenant ...
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... prisoners , and clofely pursued by our troops . The enemy retreated to Czernez , near which place Petrioni , Chief of the Staff , rifked an attack with all his forces . He fucceeded in driving back fome battalions , but the enemy were ...
... prisoners , and clofely pursued by our troops . The enemy retreated to Czernez , near which place Petrioni , Chief of the Staff , rifked an attack with all his forces . He fucceeded in driving back fome battalions , but the enemy were ...
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... prisoners . On the 7th , the enemy retreated alfo from Freudenstadt , and abandoned feve- ral pofts on the Kniebis , from whence they marched by Oberkirch towards Kehl , to which place feveral other co- lumns , who were directing their ...
... prisoners . On the 7th , the enemy retreated alfo from Freudenstadt , and abandoned feve- ral pofts on the Kniebis , from whence they marched by Oberkirch towards Kehl , to which place feveral other co- lumns , who were directing their ...
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