Private Diary of Travels, Personal Services, and Public Events: During Mission and Employment with the European Armies in the Campaigns of 1812, 1813, 1814. From the Invasion of Russia to the Capture of Paris, Volumen2

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J. Murray, 1861 - 491 páginas
 

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