Kings and Desperate Men: Life in Eighteenth Century EnglandVintage Books, 1942 - 298 sivua Life in eighteenth century England in the time of the French Revolution. |
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... France . The war plainly began as a defensive war against French ambitions ; but as victories piled up for England and the struggle still dragged on , it became clear that it was also something else . The Whigs need not be con- sidered ...
... France . The war plainly began as a defensive war against French ambitions ; but as victories piled up for England and the struggle still dragged on , it became clear that it was also something else . The Whigs need not be con- sidered ...
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... France from the Rhine , only to wheel secretly across Germany and meet the enemy at Blenheim . Blenheim crushed Louis's pretensions in Europe . Had Marlborough , in the years that followed , not been slowed down by his Dutch and ...
... France from the Rhine , only to wheel secretly across Germany and meet the enemy at Blenheim . Blenheim crushed Louis's pretensions in Europe . Had Marlborough , in the years that followed , not been slowed down by his Dutch and ...
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... France and to avert a similar one in England . With amazing insight he predicted atheism across the Channel , butchery , the beheading of the King , the spread of republican propaganda , the advent of French aggressive warfare , the ...
... France and to avert a similar one in England . With amazing insight he predicted atheism across the Channel , butchery , the beheading of the King , the spread of republican propaganda , the advent of French aggressive warfare , the ...
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