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enemy_n colonel_n horse_n regiment_n 1,920 5 9.9256 5 true
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A25307 An Account of the joyning of Major-General Kirk's forces with Duke Schomberg's and the taking the town and castle of Carrickfergus as also an account of the Irish army under K. James / by several persons lately arrived from Ireland. 1689 (1689) Wing A302; ESTC R1177 1,427 2

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