seat of war
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June 22d it embarks at Fort Snelling for the seat of war.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman
In the London Post for July 25, 1701, is a map of the seat of war in Italy, which is reprinted in other numbers, and the Daily Courant, for Sept.
From The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress by Jackson, Mason
"What do you hear from the seat of war?" asked Philip, turning to Brenda, as if to change the subject.
From Brenda's Bargain A Story for Girls by Reed, Helen Leah
England, indeed, was itself never the seat of war, and its commerce was increased by the war in some directions as much as it was diminished by it in others.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm
My dear Margaret is still in Quebec, with her lovely little Julia, as Upper Canada is still the seat of war.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.