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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 314

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by an expert corps, connected the headquarters of the armywith those of each, army corps, division, and brigade. But it was not in itsemployment on the actual held of battle that the telegraph found its mostvaluable military use. It enabled generals, separated In hundreds of miles,to be in constant… … SPENCEK CAKRIXE. which enabled each to perform, in harmony with the others, its part in themighty plan. It followed as naturally as day follows night that a shrewd and intelligent,people, engaged in a desperate struggle for self-preservation, would availthemselves of all means provided by military…

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