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The letter never reached the Chesapeake's captain . ... Her orders were to avoid all engagement until she reached her appointed station in the Gulf of St Lawrence , where she was likely to cause maximum havoc among British troopships ...
The letter never reached the Chesapeake's captain . ... Her orders were to avoid all engagement until she reached her appointed station in the Gulf of St Lawrence , where she was likely to cause maximum havoc among British troopships ...
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He reached it a good way down - river , but it was too steep and too high for him to mount . In agony I watched him striking at the bank with his forelegs , only to be washed back , to reappear and try again at another place .
He reached it a good way down - river , but it was too steep and too high for him to mount . In agony I watched him striking at the bank with his forelegs , only to be washed back , to reappear and try again at another place .
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A hand was reaching upwards from the ground . A man's hand . ... The strange hand that had reached up ... was only a minimum ; but without that minimum he could never have reached Dan's bedroom , and eventually got on to Dan's bed .
A hand was reaching upwards from the ground . A man's hand . ... The strange hand that had reached up ... was only a minimum ; but without that minimum he could never have reached Dan's bedroom , and eventually got on to Dan's bed .
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Contents
THE DUEL OF THE FRIGATES BY VICTOR ALLAN | 42 |
A LITTLE SOMETHING BY GORDON MEYER | 137 |
A MILITARY APPRECIATION OF BRITISH INDUSTRY BY BRIGADIER | 157 |
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