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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... town was changed into a heap of ruins . The mas- sacre of the inhabitants , April 15 , was the signal for a struggle of life and death . Almost 2 * GREECE , REVOLUTION OF MODERN . 17 vent excesses, and was generally success- ...
... town was changed into a heap of ruins . The mas- sacre of the inhabitants , April 15 , was the signal for a struggle of life and death . Almost 2 * GREECE , REVOLUTION OF MODERN . 17 vent excesses, and was generally success- ...
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... town to deliver up the place to the attacked by a greater force , at a different pacha Jussuf . The Suliots began to point of the island , where they had not commit great excesses , being excessively expected it . Their obstinate ...
... town to deliver up the place to the attacked by a greater force , at a different pacha Jussuf . The Suliots began to point of the island , where they had not commit great excesses , being excessively expected it . Their obstinate ...
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... town and the forts . Whilst the principal at- tack appeared to be made here , a landing was effected on the opposite coast , upon a sandy point of land , where an Albanese battalion , under the traitor Goda , deserted the battery ...
... town and the forts . Whilst the principal at- tack appeared to be made here , a landing was effected on the opposite coast , upon a sandy point of land , where an Albanese battalion , under the traitor Goda , deserted the battery ...
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... town to surrender , if they did not wish the place to be taken by storin . They refused the offer . Soon after , there was an engagement between the fleets , in the gulf of Patras , on the 27th and 28th of January , when the Greek fire ...
... town to surrender , if they did not wish the place to be taken by storin . They refused the offer . Soon after , there was an engagement between the fleets , in the gulf of Patras , on the 27th and 28th of January , when the Greek fire ...
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... town of Navarino without opposition . He then attacked the Turkish fortresses in Messenia . The garrison made no resistance , and , on the other hand , the commanders would not capitulate . The French , therefore , almost without ...
... town of Navarino without opposition . He then attacked the Turkish fortresses in Messenia . The garrison made no resistance , and , on the other hand , the commanders would not capitulate . The French , therefore , almost without ...
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Page 256 - I determined to venture, and alone, unadvised, and unassisted, on a blank leaf of an old law book, wrote the within.
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