Canrobert
Americannoun
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The two guests of honor, General Canrobert Pereira da Costa, Brazil's war minister, and Lieut.
From Time Magazine Archive
For whatever good it might do, Adhemar was careful to drop in on War Minister Canrobert Pereira da Costa and Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes, both presidential possibilities themselves.
From Time Magazine Archive
A fortnight afterwards, however, General Pelissier succeeding Canrobert, authorised the French admiral to proceed in support of the English.
From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by Kingston, William Henry Giles
He seems to have taken the correspondence between Napoleon and Joseph for his model, forgetting that Canrobert is to him what Napoleon was to Joseph.
From Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 by Tocqueville, Alexis de
Here all the great soldiers of the Empire, Arnand, Pelissier, Canrobert, Bosquet, have won their first laurels.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 by Various
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