The Annual Register, Volume 142Edmund Burke Rivingtons, 1901 - Books Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. From the 1920s volumes of The Annual Register took the essential shape in which they have continued ever since, opening with the history of Britain, then a section on foreign history covering each country or region in turn. Following these are the chronicle of events, brief retrospectives on the year’s cultural and economic developments, a short selection of documents, and obituaries of eminent persons who died in the year. |
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... taken . With regard to the question of artillery , it was necessary in the choice of guns to make a com- promise and sacrifice mobility to destructiveness and vice versâ , and that was one of the great difficulties they had to contend ...
... taken . With regard to the question of artillery , it was necessary in the choice of guns to make a com- promise and sacrifice mobility to destructiveness and vice versâ , and that was one of the great difficulties they had to contend ...
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... taken by the War Office in response to the offers from the colonies , that infantry rather than mounted troops would be preferred , and the overwhelming evidence that our guns were outclassed , and our rifles less serviceable than those ...
... taken by the War Office in response to the offers from the colonies , that infantry rather than mounted troops would be preferred , and the overwhelming evidence that our guns were outclassed , and our rifles less serviceable than those ...
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... taken the oppor- tunity of stigmatising the raid from his place in Parliament , had allowed the Boers to suppose that the policy of whitewash- ing the raiders was accepted by all parties , and consequently all parties were equally ...
... taken the oppor- tunity of stigmatising the raid from his place in Parliament , had allowed the Boers to suppose that the policy of whitewash- ing the raiders was accepted by all parties , and consequently all parties were equally ...
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... taken by the Commander - in - Chief upon that report , and what was his advice to the Secretary of State for War ? Did the Secretary of State act upon the advice of the Commander - in - Chief , or upon some other military opinion ? If ...
... taken by the Commander - in - Chief upon that report , and what was his advice to the Secretary of State for War ? Did the Secretary of State act upon the advice of the Commander - in - Chief , or upon some other military opinion ? If ...
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... taken up , and his fitness to preside over the military operations of a great campaign was seriously questioned . The Ministry , it was said , which had come into office over an incident of military adminis- tration , which for five ...
... taken up , and his fitness to preside over the military operations of a great campaign was seriously questioned . The Ministry , it was said , which had come into office over an incident of military adminis- tration , which for five ...
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