Braddock: A Story of the French and Indian WarsFunk & Wagnall's Company, 1893 - 470 pages |
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... thousands of them have forgotten their genealogy . The same care has been exercised in this as in other stories to keep separate fact from fiction ; while the fiction is designed to aid in the arranging and comprehending of the fact ...
... thousands of them have forgotten their genealogy . The same care has been exercised in this as in other stories to keep separate fact from fiction ; while the fiction is designed to aid in the arranging and comprehending of the fact ...
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... thousand francs . 29 " A thousand francs , my child ! " " Father , it is right and proper that I should have the sum . " แ Why ? " 66 To bestow on charity . " " It is quite a large sum , my child . ” " Yet I want it . " Monsieur De Vere ...
... thousand francs . 29 " A thousand francs , my child ! " " Father , it is right and proper that I should have the sum . " แ Why ? " 66 To bestow on charity . " " It is quite a large sum , my child . ” " Yet I want it . " Monsieur De Vere ...
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... thousand . about your person . Conceal the money In the seam of the great rock on which your chain gang worked , you will , three nights hence , find a suit of clothes suitable for a gentleman and five hundred francs more . " 66 ...
... thousand . about your person . Conceal the money In the seam of the great rock on which your chain gang worked , you will , three nights hence , find a suit of clothes suitable for a gentleman and five hundred francs more . " 66 ...
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... domain on the east . Recruits were enlisted for the campaign , and , early in June of the above Colonel Marsh , with a thousand men , sailed year , from Nantucket , under convoy of a British war- ship END OF QUEEN ANNE'S WAR . 51.
... domain on the east . Recruits were enlisted for the campaign , and , early in June of the above Colonel Marsh , with a thousand men , sailed year , from Nantucket , under convoy of a British war- ship END OF QUEEN ANNE'S WAR . 51.
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... thousand in number and were chiefly furnished by New York and Con- necticut . Six hundred of them were warriors of the Five Nations . Reports of the movements were not long in reaching the ears of Governor Vaudreuil at Mon- treal , who ...
... thousand in number and were chiefly furnished by New York and Con- necticut . Six hundred of them were warriors of the Five Nations . Reports of the movements were not long in reaching the ears of Governor Vaudreuil at Mon- treal , who ...
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