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A34352 Count Taaffe's letters from the imperial camp to his brother the Earl of Carlingford here in London giving an account of the most considerable actions, both before, and at, the raising of the siege at Vienna, together with several remarkable passages afterward, in the victorious campagne against the Turks in Hungary : with an addition of two other letters from a young English nobleman, a voluntier in the imperial army. Carlingford, Francis Taaffe, Earl of, 1639-1704. 1684 (1684) Wing C592; ESTC R20027 16,653 38

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