Journal of Adventures with the British Army, from the Commencement of the War to the Taking of Sebastopol ...Hurst and Blackett, 1856 - Всего страниц: 345 |
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... covered with prickly spines . Sword - fish are abundant in the Bosphorus , and are very good eating . The usual way of dressing them , is in thin slices , fried . I used to think that the fish - represented in Raphael's picture of the ...
... covered with prickly spines . Sword - fish are abundant in the Bosphorus , and are very good eating . The usual way of dressing them , is in thin slices , fried . I used to think that the fish - represented in Raphael's picture of the ...
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... was , or where from ; but her decks were covered with wondering soldiers , for which no barrack ac- commodation or commissariat arrangements had yet been made . It was the Himalaya , OF BRITISH TROOPS . 21 with General Adams and staff.
... was , or where from ; but her decks were covered with wondering soldiers , for which no barrack ac- commodation or commissariat arrangements had yet been made . It was the Himalaya , OF BRITISH TROOPS . 21 with General Adams and staff.
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... covered with brushwood . At the Piraeus the steamer remained some hours . I went up to Athens , which is about four miles distant - the road level , and very dusty , and the country ugly . The Areopagus is merely an elevated . rock ...
... covered with brushwood . At the Piraeus the steamer remained some hours . I went up to Athens , which is about four miles distant - the road level , and very dusty , and the country ugly . The Areopagus is merely an elevated . rock ...
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... covered with scaffolding , and the Russians were repairing the embrasures . Through a telescope one could plainly see the whole face of the stone - work crumbled , and , as it were , ' pock - marked ' by shot . The fire from the ...
... covered with scaffolding , and the Russians were repairing the embrasures . Through a telescope one could plainly see the whole face of the stone - work crumbled , and , as it were , ' pock - marked ' by shot . The fire from the ...
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... covered with brushwood , sloping down in front towards Sebastopol ; and there inter- sected by deep ravines . On our right and rear , it descends almost precipitously into the valley of the Tchernaya ; which is much less than a mile ...
... covered with brushwood , sloping down in front towards Sebastopol ; and there inter- sected by deep ravines . On our right and rear , it descends almost precipitously into the valley of the Tchernaya ; which is much less than a mile ...
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