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Throughout the country a military aristocracy had sprung up ; every chieftain who owned a hill - fort or a jaghire , raised troops for plunder or for war . † Property was seized , and wealth ac- quired by the armed hand .
Throughout the country a military aristocracy had sprung up ; every chieftain who owned a hill - fort or a jaghire , raised troops for plunder or for war . † Property was seized , and wealth ac- quired by the armed hand .
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The fall of Prussia in the same year finally esta- blished the military and commercial dominion of France over Germany . The battle of Trafalgar , at the close of 1805 , had nearly extinguished the maritime contest which had endured ...
The fall of Prussia in the same year finally esta- blished the military and commercial dominion of France over Germany . The battle of Trafalgar , at the close of 1805 , had nearly extinguished the maritime contest which had endured ...
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M. Thiers , in his picture of the movements and the strategy of the French commanders , is wonderfully graphic ; and though he may be accused , in some portions of his vast labour , of an excessive propensity to military detail , more ...
M. Thiers , in his picture of the movements and the strategy of the French commanders , is wonderfully graphic ; and though he may be accused , in some portions of his vast labour , of an excessive propensity to military detail , more ...
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