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... arrived off the British lines at 7 p.m. At seven - thirty she opened up a withering cross - fire into the British , who , being still without artillery , were quite unable to reply . A confused night battle followed , an engagement in ...
... arrived off the British lines at 7 p.m. At seven - thirty she opened up a withering cross - fire into the British , who , being still without artillery , were quite unable to reply . A confused night battle followed , an engagement in ...
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... arrived there carrying copies of the proclamations . He was arrested and brought before Colonel Cuneo d'Ornano , the Military Commandant of Antibes , who soon discovered what was afoot . At the time , d'Ornano's men were drilling with ...
... arrived there carrying copies of the proclamations . He was arrested and brought before Colonel Cuneo d'Ornano , the Military Commandant of Antibes , who soon discovered what was afoot . At the time , d'Ornano's men were drilling with ...
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... arrived . More silence . There was an open refusal to shout ' Vive le Roi ' . The thirty thousand men sent by the royalists in Paris failed to arrive . White cockades of the Bourbons lay on the ground and were trampled into the mud ...
... arrived . More silence . There was an open refusal to shout ' Vive le Roi ' . The thirty thousand men sent by the royalists in Paris failed to arrive . White cockades of the Bourbons lay on the ground and were trampled into the mud ...
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