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So far as can be ascertained, 8000 officers and men were killed or wounded. Longstreet 1850 A.P. Hill 2450 Jackson........ 8700 Jackson's losses were distributed as follows: Jackson's own Division 600 Ewell 650 Whiting 1020 D.H. Hill 1430 The regimental losses, in several instances, were exceptionally severe.
During the first four or five days that Bonaparte spent at Malmaison he amused himself after breakfast with calculating the revenue of that domain. According to his estimates it amounted to 8000 francs. "That is not bad!" said he; "but to live here would require au income of 30,000 livres!" I could not help smiling to see him seriously engaged in such a calculation.
When the judges learnt the surrender of the fleet under Cueto, they determined upon sending him as a prisoner to Spain, with a formal memorial of all that had passed, and deputed the licenciate Alvarez, one of their number to take charge of him thither, and to support their memorial at the court of Spain, giving him 8000 crowns to defray the expences of the voyage.
On one of these cold, windy days I went with Lille friends to Roubaix, as cold and windy a town, I should say, as any in France. A preliminary word or two must be said about Roubaix, the city of strikes, pre-eminently the Socialist city. City we may indeed call it, and it is one of rapidly increasing dimensions. In the beginning of the century Roubaix numbered 8000 souls only.
Each of the six smaller circles registered on a moving ribbon the indications of every successive moment, these ribbons when unrolled forming a perfect record of temperature, atmospheric pressure, wind, and so forth, in the form of a curve a register kept for more than 8000 Martial years.
There were about 8000 head of cattle upon the Frewens' ranche, all of which were in excellent condition.
It turned out that Irvine did not occupy Red House, and the prevalent belief that the enemy was about 8000 in number, with the uncertainty of the road he would take, made it proper to keep the little force concentrated till reinforcements should come.
The half-breeds from the neighbouring coast of Venezuela, a mixture, probably, of Spanish, Negro, and Indian, are among the most industrious; and their cacao plantations, in some cases, hold 8000 to 10,000 trees. The south-west corner of Montserrat is almost entirely settled by Africans of various tribes Mandingos, Foulahs, Homas, Yarribas, Ashantees, and Congos.
BIANCHINI. A fine ring-plain, about 18 miles in diameter, on the N.E. side of the Sinus Iridum, surrounded by the lofty mountains defining the border of the bay. Its walls, which are prominently terraced within, rise about 7000 feet on the E., and about 8000 feet on the W. above the floor, which includes a prominent ridge and a conspicuous central mountain.
Bernard fell in with a merchant to whom his family was known, and his adventures unknown; and the good man had the kindness to lend him 8000 florins. This was a trifling debt to incur at a time when he stood on the very brink of the Secret; and the two friends set to work with a will.
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