The Horse GuardsJ. & D.A. Darling, 1850 - 104 páginas |
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... military fame would call in question the correctness of our amusing friend's statement , for I much marvel whe- ther any member of either the belligerent branches of the state could afford sufficient effrontery to throw down the ...
... military fame would call in question the correctness of our amusing friend's statement , for I much marvel whe- ther any member of either the belligerent branches of the state could afford sufficient effrontery to throw down the ...
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... Military College , Sandhurst . Respecting that establishment at the present day , I do not profess any knowledge ; but of course opine it has progressed in improvement , keeping pace with the intellectual forced marches , which the oft ...
... Military College , Sandhurst . Respecting that establishment at the present day , I do not profess any knowledge ; but of course opine it has progressed in improvement , keeping pace with the intellectual forced marches , which the oft ...
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... Guide to the junior and senior Departments of the Royal Military College , Sandhurst , by an " Experienced Officer . " -London , Law , 131 , Fleet Street . and as his judgment on that point , was generally 4 THE HORSE GUARDS .
... Guide to the junior and senior Departments of the Royal Military College , Sandhurst , by an " Experienced Officer . " -London , Law , 131 , Fleet Street . and as his judgment on that point , was generally 4 THE HORSE GUARDS .
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... military knowledge and experience . Those gentlemen often proved an intolerable nui- sance to their brother officers , they being marve- lously inclined towards argument on all points of discipline , and immoveably hostile to the ...
... military knowledge and experience . Those gentlemen often proved an intolerable nui- sance to their brother officers , they being marve- lously inclined towards argument on all points of discipline , and immoveably hostile to the ...
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... military college and its row of tea- caddy looking houses , erected for the confinement of the professors , I would fain call the attention of my readers to a reconsidertiaon of a subject ever occupying the thoughts of either naval or ...
... military college and its row of tea- caddy looking houses , erected for the confinement of the professors , I would fain call the attention of my readers to a reconsidertiaon of a subject ever occupying the thoughts of either naval or ...
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