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Meanings of fire the town in inglês

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Usage of fire the town in inglês
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She had placed rockets in readiness to fire the town on the instant of a volley of musketry being heard.
Ismailia
2
One night a report prevailed in Dumbarton, that Rob Roy intended to surprise the militia and to fire the town.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume II.
3
With the deserters were mingled a good many of the troops sent in by Bandoola, himself, with instructions to fire the town.
On the Irrawaddy: A Story of the First Burmese War
4
They would burn the gate, they cried; they would fire the town, but they would follow the Maid and the guidance of the saints.
A Monk of Fife / Being the Chronicle Written by Norman Leslie of...
5
For his final argument he took the Governor to the doorway, and showed him two hundred soldiers with lighted torches ready to fire the town.
The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Complete
6
They say down there that I have fired the town, but I have not.
Historical Miniatures
7
The visitors to the château and environs afterward joined their comrades in firing the town.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, ...
8
With hardly a shot fired the town was occupied.
The Great Boer War
9
But I think that most of our chaps had better be told off for firing the town.
No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee
10
The Admiral, however, confined his chastisement to the latter, which he thoroughly performed, and fired the town in several places.
The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
11
In 1049 Earl Godwin, and another son, Harold, made a second foray, carried off more ships, and fired the town.
Highways and Byways in Sussex
12
Between nightfall and dawn the Spaniards had taken the alarm and fled from the place, firing the town as they left.
Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom
13
I sailed in the evening after saluting the Pacha with twenty guns, and saw them fire the Town, the Plunder being finish'd.
Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N...
14
It was this that fired the town, and that began the fright in Mansoul; for Mansoul in former times did use to count that Mr.
The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, for the Regain...
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