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enemy_n colonel_n horse_n regiment_n 1,920 5 9.9256 5 true
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A24247 An Account from Lymrick, of the taking a castle above the English-town, making the garrison prisoners of war with the numbers of men killed in the late great action, &c. : as also the series of actions from the 16th to the 24th ult. 1691 (1691) Wing A172; ESTC R6079 1,817 2

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