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| Title | Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern Nation to the Close of the American Revolution, Volume 1 Bohn's standard library Lectures on Modern History: From the Irruption of the Northern Nation to the Close of the American Revolution, William Smyth |
| Author | William Smyth |
| Publisher | H. G. Bohn, 1854 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 31 Mar 2008 |
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