Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics and Biography, Volume 6Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Henry Vethake B.B. Mussey & Company, 1851 |
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... death , was frustrat- ed by Antipater . The Lamian war , af- ter the death of Alexander , was equally unsuccessful . Greece was now little bet- ter than a Macedonian province . Luxury had enervated the ancient courage and energy of the ...
... death , was frustrat- ed by Antipater . The Lamian war , af- ter the death of Alexander , was equally unsuccessful . Greece was now little bet- ter than a Macedonian province . Luxury had enervated the ancient courage and energy of the ...
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... death ; the flight of some rendered all guilty ; it was prohibited under penalty of death ; in the divan , the total extinction of the Greek name was proposed ; Turkish troops marched into the principalities ; the hos- podar Suzzo was ...
... death ; the flight of some rendered all guilty ; it was prohibited under penalty of death ; in the divan , the total extinction of the Greek name was proposed ; Turkish troops marched into the principalities ; the hos- podar Suzzo was ...
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... death . Almost the whole war was thenceforward a succession of atrocities . It was not a war prosecuted on any fixed plan , but merely a series of devastations and mur- ders . The law of nations could not exist between the Turks and ...
... death . Almost the whole war was thenceforward a succession of atrocities . It was not a war prosecuted on any fixed plan , but merely a series of devastations and mur- ders . The law of nations could not exist between the Turks and ...
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... death , rowed with their scampavias ( a kind of gunboats ) into the midst of the fleet of the enemy , which still lay in the road of Scio ; and in the night of June 18 , 1822 , captain George attached fire - ships to the ship of the cap ...
... death , rowed with their scampavias ( a kind of gunboats ) into the midst of the fleet of the enemy , which still lay in the road of Scio ; and in the night of June 18 , 1822 , captain George attached fire - ships to the ship of the cap ...
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... death or victory , Ibrahim assaulted the works of Missolonghi from February 28 to March 2. On this day , he attacked the place by sea and land , but was wholly repulsed , with the loss of 4000 men ; so that Missolonghi was , for the ...
... death or victory , Ibrahim assaulted the works of Missolonghi from February 28 to March 2. On this day , he attacked the place by sea and land , but was wholly repulsed , with the loss of 4000 men ; so that Missolonghi was , for the ...
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