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  • The junction of the corps commanded by Bernadotte in Hanover with the Grand Army was a point of such high importance that Bonaparte had directed the Marshal to come up with him as speedily as possible, and to take the shortest road.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • The shadow of the Civil War still hung over the country; the soldiers who had served in that war had formed themselves into a great, semi-political organization, known as the Grand Army of the Republic, and worked unceasingly for increased pensions, which Congress had found itself unable to refuse.

    American Men of Action Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917

  • The shadow of the Civil War still hung over the country; the soldiers who had served in that war had formed themselves into a great, semi-political organization, known as the Grand Army of the Republic, and worked unceasingly for increased pensions, which Congress had found itself unable to refuse.

    American Men of Action Stevenson, Burton E 1913

  • The junction of the corps commanded by Bernadotte in Hanover with the Grand Army was a point of such high importance that Bonaparte had directed the Marshal to come up with him as speedily as possible, and to take the shortest road.

    The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836

  • The junction of the corps commanded by Bernadotte in Hanover with the Grand Army was a point of such high importance that Bonaparte had directed the Marshal to come up with him as speedily as possible, and to take the shortest road.

    Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801

  • In the 1990s Mr. Fritts joined a Civil War history organization called the Grand Army of the Cussewago and became a tour director for the group, guiding its members on memorable visits to various sites of the Battles of Chickamauga and Atlanta.

    ajc.com - News 2010

  • "U.S. Route 6" which begins in the town of Provincetown and extends to the boundary hne between tliis common - wealth and the state of Rhode Island shall hereafter be designated and known as the Grand Army of the Republic Highway.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • Believing as we do that the African Methodist Episcopal Church is one of the regiments of the grand division of the "Grand Army," and that she has to make and write her own history, we humbly present the following pages as preserved sheets of history already made and still developing.

    History of the African Methodist Episcopal Church 1891

  • The "Grand Army," with its system of corps and reserves, marched on _Vienna_, which was occupied on the

    Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868

  • These visions were rather rudely shaken by the collision of the 'Grand Army' with the 'Rebels' on the fatal plains of Manassas, July 21st, 1861.

    The Rivals: A Chickahominy Story Mary Jane 1864

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