Connecticut western news., 1876-12-08
APPLETON'S American CycIop@dia.

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 BIOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE Have been made by the n6efatigable explorers of Africa. The great political revolutions of the last decade, with tho natural result of the lapse of time, have brought into public view 8 multitude of new men, whose names are in every ones mouth, and of whose lives every one is anxious to know the particulars. Great battles have been fought and important sioges maintained, of which the details arc as yet preserved only in the newspapers or in the transient publications of the day, but which ought now to take their place in
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