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Farquharson MacLeod, who had already done such outstanding work during the long trek to the West and in getting to definite police duty at the key-position of the whole work in the foothill country.
Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police R.G. MacBeth
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Missionary Ridge cost the South near 8,000 men; all the Chickamauga artillery and more; and the coveted key-position to the situation.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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For the same reason -- insufficient force -- Buckner was forced to abandon Knoxville; and a few weeks later Cumberland Gap, the key-position to East
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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Men now realize why the Federal general -- failing in every separate effort to buy a key-position, even at the cost of six lives for one -- was forced to sit down sullenly and wait the slow, but sure, process of attrition.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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If his fierce and irritable vanity had been touched he might, through mere wayward anger, have dared the Americans to a contest which, however disastrous to them, would ultimately have been more so to him; but he was a great statesman, and a still greater soldier, and he did not need to be told that it would be worse than folly to try to keep a country when he had given up the key-position.
The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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The Roos also have massive raps on key-position prospect Aaron Black 25, 2009, who made his debut in round 24 this year.
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West Coast in Saturday's big clash in Perth have weakened with the loss of key-position players Tayte Pears and Michael Hurley, with the club citing soreness for both.
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Until Friday night the Hawks had defied suspicions about their key-position defensive stocks, but Ryan Shoenmakers - in particular - looked seriously vulnerable against the Cats.
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It will be another bitter blow for new coach Scott Watters, who lost exciting Irish key-position player Tommy Walsh to Sydney Swans in the trade period.
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Carlton key-position player Jarrad Waite has accepted a two-match suspension for engaging in rough conduct against Port Adelaide's Jason Davenport.
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