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Mr. F. A. Mercer And Mr. W. Gaunt, Who Edit

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Come By Chance. By Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick (collins. 7s. 6d.)

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Dr. Gibson's Modern Conceptions Of Electricity (seeley,...

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Mr. Stephen Coleridge Has Been Privileged To Know Many...

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Answers To .military History Questions

1. Cr6cy, 1346.-2. Dunbar, 1650.-3. Battle of the Boyne5 1689. The men of William of Orange.-4. Duke of Marlborough. Recruits for the Irish Regiments of Louis XIV.-6. A General......