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Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp choose

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[UK] in J. Shipp Memoirs (1829) II 37: We are all pretty well, only the regiment is sickly, and a great quantity are in hospital with the Corporal Forbes, which carries them away before they have time to die.
at Corporal Forbes, n.
[UK] J. Shipp Memoirs II 255: It’s true the people call me, I know not why, the ‘pugley’; yet, sir, I am Not mad, but I ever must wail unfeignedly the loss of him who now has left me.
at poggle, n.
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