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... lessons of the Master of the Art of Defence , so great in greater things than siege or safe keeping of cities . Perhaps in the library of the barracks or on the old lines of Brompton the young sapper read the lesson that Vauban has left ...
... lessons of the Master of the Art of Defence , so great in greater things than siege or safe keeping of cities . Perhaps in the library of the barracks or on the old lines of Brompton the young sapper read the lesson that Vauban has left ...
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... lessons of many fruitless campaigns and abortive expeditions , the very names of which are now forgotten , and the records of which have to be sought for in the by - ways of history , and it had been proved and made perfect in the five ...
... lessons of many fruitless campaigns and abortive expeditions , the very names of which are now forgotten , and the records of which have to be sought for in the by - ways of history , and it had been proved and made perfect in the five ...
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Sir William Francis Butler. had already begun to apply to the Prussian army the lessons of change and improvement which the errors and failures of the rival antagonists were teaching . " The last of the old sieges , " Gordon had called ...
Sir William Francis Butler. had already begun to apply to the Prussian army the lessons of change and improvement which the errors and failures of the rival antagonists were teaching . " The last of the old sieges , " Gordon had called ...
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... lesson which might have been learnt from the campaign ? It has been said that Gordon saved the Empire of China ; that is an exaggerated estimate of his service . The Empire of China is far too old and too vast an institution to be saved ...
... lesson which might have been learnt from the campaign ? It has been said that Gordon saved the Empire of China ; that is an exaggerated estimate of his service . The Empire of China is far too old and too vast an institution to be saved ...
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... lesson of this brilliant episode was neither to China nor to Gordon , it was to us . China might well be trusted to go on its own road as it had gone its way for two thousand years . Gordon knew himself and his III THE TRUE LESSON OF ...
... lesson of this brilliant episode was neither to China nor to Gordon , it was to us . China might well be trusted to go on its own road as it had gone its way for two thousand years . Gordon knew himself and his III THE TRUE LESSON OF ...
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