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History of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Vol. XX. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER X
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491, iii.

323;--"did not get to sea till 12th May, 1762" (_Gentleman's Magazine_ for 1762, p.

239).] In short, every encouragement to poor Portugal: 'Pull, and we will help you by tracing.' "The poor Portuguese pulled very badly: were disgusting to Tyrawley, he to them; and cried passionately, 'Get us another General;'-- upon which, by some wise person's counsel, that singular Artillery Gentleman, the Graf von der Lippe Buckeburg, who gave the dinner in his Tent with cannon firing at the pole of it, was appointed; and Tyrawley came home in a huff.

[Varnhagen van Ense, GRAF WILHELM ZUR LIPPE (Berlin, 1845), in _Vermischte Schriften,_ i.

1-118: pp.


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