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... miles away on the heights , there are many signi- ficant passages in his letters . " I have not yet seen Sebastopol , " he writes on January 3d , " and do not hear anything about the siege . We hear a gun now and then . No one seems to ...
... miles away on the heights , there are many signi- ficant passages in his letters . " I have not yet seen Sebastopol , " he writes on January 3d , " and do not hear anything about the siege . We hear a gun now and then . No one seems to ...
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... miles , digging and mining in a hundred places , the great Russian engineer had found the real key of the city and forts on the south side of the harbour , and the batteries which late in Feb- ruary the besieged began to erect in ...
... miles , digging and mining in a hundred places , the great Russian engineer had found the real key of the city and forts on the south side of the harbour , and the batteries which late in Feb- ruary the besieged began to erect in ...
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... miles . This terrific storm of shot and shell was con- tinued without a break all through the day . The Rus- sian guns at first replied slowly , then ceased their fire almost wholly . From half - past two in the morning of the 17th ...
... miles . This terrific storm of shot and shell was con- tinued without a break all through the day . The Rus- sian guns at first replied slowly , then ceased their fire almost wholly . From half - past two in the morning of the 17th ...
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... miles of a seaport and within fourteen days ' steaming of Portsmouth harbour the nation knew as little after the war , and knows as little to - day , as of the administrative details of the war of the Spanish Succession . Nay , it would ...
... miles of a seaport and within fourteen days ' steaming of Portsmouth harbour the nation knew as little after the war , and knows as little to - day , as of the administrative details of the war of the Spanish Succession . Nay , it would ...
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... mile ride there and back over a grass country com- pletely deserted . " Another day he visits the north side of Sebastopol , thinks it " strong , but the north or star fort is a tumble - down affair , and not at all formidable , " and ...
... mile ride there and back over a grass country com- pletely deserted . " Another day he visits the north side of Sebastopol , thinks it " strong , but the north or star fort is a tumble - down affair , and not at all formidable , " and ...
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