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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

CHAPTER XVII
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During some time they confronted each other with less than a league between them.

But neither William nor Luxemburg would fight except at an advantage; and neither gave the other any advantage.

Languid as the campaign was, it is on one account remarkable.

During more than a century our country had sent no great force to make war by land out of the British isles.

Our aristocracy had therefore long ceased to be a military class.


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