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The source of this contradiction lies in the fact that the historians studying the events from the letters of the sovereigns and the generals, from memoirs, reports, projects, and so forth, have attributed to this last period of the war of 1812 an aim that never existed, namely that of cutting off and capturing Napoleon with his marshals and his army.
All the profound plans about cutting off and capturing Napoleon and his army were like the plan of a market gardener who, when driving out of his garden a cow that had trampled down the beds he had planted, should run to the gate and hit the cow on the head.
But besides the fact that cutting off Napoleon with his army would have been senseless, it was impossible.
The aim of cutting off Napoleon and his army never existed except in the imaginations of a dozen people.
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This tree I was three days in cutting down, and two more cutting off the boughs, and reducing it to a log or piece of timber.
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The Mohammedans are cutting Buddhist throats, too," added the Dragoman.
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Poor Geppetto kept cutting it and cutting it, but the more he cut, the longer grew that impertinent nose.
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Solid carbide cutting tools are of great importance in manufacturing technology.
Machining of Inconel 718 using uncoated cutting tools with different cutting edge quality
Laser cutting quality depends mainly on the selection of the process parameters that were established with trial and error method.
AE signals during laser cutting of different steel sheet thicknesses
7 : to intentionally not attend <He developed a habit of cutting class.
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To balance the budget under these conditions would require cutting defense spending by 67 percent, Medicare by 54 percent, or every other program by a third, something that no one in politics has shown any willingness to do.
Read my lips: raise taxes: the era of the tax revolt is over. How Democrats have an opportunity to redefine the politics of government

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