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By favour of some of my Martial Friends, I was introduced to a favourite Coffee-House, the "Ramilies," in Jermyn Street
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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Falconer is supposed to have continued in the merchant service (one of his biographers maintains that he was for some time in the 'Ramilies', a man-of-war, which suffered shipwreck in the Channel) till 1762, when he published his "Shipwreck."
The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes George Gilfillan 1845
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The date fits in well enough with the campaigns of Ramilies, Oudennarde and Malplaquet.
Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden
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Oh, the powder, and the pigtails, and the broad cuffs, and the Ramilies cock, and the sword tucked through the coat-tail!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various
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Never had the stout veteran who had fought, in 1706, at Ramilies, been either sick, or wounded.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson
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Orkney's regiment, under Marlborough, at Ramilies and Malplaquet, with approbation.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson
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Monarque or William of Orange; see what inconvenient coats those glorious fellows that won Blenheim and Ramilies wore; recollect the absurd turn-out of Charles XII., and even of Frederick the Great.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various
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_Ramilies_, commanded by Sir Thomas Hardy, to take possession of Moose
The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger
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He had first entered the Dutch service; then had served in Marlborough's army at Ramilies.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson
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The oakenhearted warriors of Marathon and Thermopylae, the heroes of Crecy and Poictiers, of Bannockburn and Stirling, of Ramilies and Malplaquet, of the Peninsula and Waterloo, of Lundy's Lane and Chateauguay, of Ladysmith and Paardeberg, acclaim them as very brethren.
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