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This wine had been seized by the Imperial Guard in a rich abbey, and was valued at thirty thousand florins. The culprits were arrested, tried, and condemned to death. There was in the camp at Lobau a dog which I think all the army knew by the name of corps-de-garde. He was old, emaciated, and ugly; but his moral qualities caused his exterior defects to be quickly lost sight of.
They passed through the enemy's lines, killed all the corps-de-garde, and many Spanish troopers the terrible Martin's own hand being most effective in this midnight slaughter and reached the very door of Parma's tent, where they killed his secretary and many of his guards.
The display of military forces which had been agreed upon and prepared was ordered to be suspended; instructions to arrest the Republican leaders were issued slowly and in but few instances. Yet a secret agitation was indicated in several parts of the capital; there were numerous crowds; on the morning of the 23rd several corps-de-garde were attacked.
The king ordered him to be instantly made over to the corps-de-garde, with orders to punish him, enough to make him more cautious of criticism in future. The soldiers accordingly, as there happened to be no punishment in the military regulations for impertinent remarks on royal amateurs, took the affair into their own hands.
They passed through the enemy's lines, killed all the corps-de-garde, and many Spanish troopers the terrible Martin's own hand being most effective in this midnight slaughter and reached the very door of Parma's tent, where they killed his secretary and many of his guards.
They passed through the enemy's lines, killed all the corps-de-garde, and many Spanish troopers the terrible Martin's own hand being most effective in this midnight slaughter and reached the very door of Parma's tent, where they killed his secretary and many of his guards.
They passed through the enemy's lines, killed all the corps-de-garde, and many Spanish troopers the terrible Martin's own hand being most effective in this midnight slaughter and reached the very door of Parma's tent, where they killed his secretary and many of his guards.
In its entire circumference are a chapel, storehouses, and houses for the commandant, officers, and troops, having at the entrance of the presidio quarters for a corps-de-garde. "These buildings in the presidios, at the first idea, appear to have been sufficient, the only object having been for a defence against a surprise from the gentiles, or wild Indians in the immediate vicinity.
This wine had been seized by the Imperial Guard in a rich abbey, and was valued at thirty thousand florins. The culprits were arrested, tried, and condemned to death. There was in the camp at Lobau a dog which I think all the army knew by the name of corps-de-garde. He was old, emaciated, and ugly; but his moral qualities caused his exterior defects to be quickly lost sight of.
The clanging of those gates brought the landlord and a couple of his knaves, and we were subjected to the prayers and intercessions, to the stormings and ravings that are ever the prelude of a stable-yard fight, but which invariably end, as these ended, in the landlord's withdrawal to run for help to the nearest corps-de-garde.
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