Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Azof: Being a Narrative of Travels in the Crimea and Bordering Provinces; with Notices of the Naval, Military, and Commercial Resources of Those Countries |
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... century . My notice on the Russian Budget in Chapter VIII . is not so full as I could wish it to have been , and perhaps I may have made too high an estimate of the military expenditure . The other facts relating to it are taken ...
... century . My notice on the Russian Budget in Chapter VIII . is not so full as I could wish it to have been , and perhaps I may have made too high an estimate of the military expenditure . The other facts relating to it are taken ...
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... Plantagenets enabled us ulti- mately , with better directed energies , to raise our great This was the strength of the army in 1846 , when I left it . commercial empire in the eighteenth century . The Circassians and viii INTRODUCTION .
... Plantagenets enabled us ulti- mately , with better directed energies , to raise our great This was the strength of the army in 1846 , when I left it . commercial empire in the eighteenth century . The Circassians and viii INTRODUCTION .
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... century . The Circassians and the other mountain tribes resemble us in many particulars : they debate every great affair in a national council ; they venerate the ancient usages and ordinances which form their constitution ; and they ...
... century . The Circassians and the other mountain tribes resemble us in many particulars : they debate every great affair in a national council ; they venerate the ancient usages and ordinances which form their constitution ; and they ...
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... century , when the Russian fleets first appeared before its walls ; and that , if we are deter- mined ( as I hope is the case ) that they shall never possess it , we must take care , whenever peace shall be made , that it be rendered ...
... century , when the Russian fleets first appeared before its walls ; and that , if we are deter- mined ( as I hope is the case ) that they shall never possess it , we must take care , whenever peace shall be made , that it be rendered ...
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... century 1781 , taken by Russians Description of ruins Their de- struction by the Russians - Position of Kaffa in commercial point of view - Arabat The wall of Asander- The approach to Kertch - - --- .. .. 236 СНАРТER XVI . KERTCH ...
... century 1781 , taken by Russians Description of ruins Their de- struction by the Russians - Position of Kaffa in commercial point of view - Arabat The wall of Asander- The approach to Kertch - - --- .. .. 236 СНАРТER XVI . KERTCH ...
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