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Pendennis and all other standing forts dismantled: or, Eight military aphorismes, : demonstrating the uselesness, unprofitableness, hurtfulness, and prodigall expensivenes of all standing English forts and garrisons, to the people of England: their inability to protect them from invasions, depredations of enemies or pyrates by sea or land: the great mischiefs, pressures, inconveniences they draw upon the inhabitants, country, and adjacent places in times of open wars, when pretended most usefull: and the grand oversight, mistake, injury in continuing them for the present or furure [sic] reall defence of the peoples lives, liberties, estates, the only ends pretended for them. /

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Main Author:	Prynne, William, 1600-1669
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London, : Printed for the author, and are to be sold by Edward Thomas in Green-Arbour, 1657 [id est 1656]
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	England and Wales. > Army > Early works to 1800. Standing army > Early works to 1800. Military bases > Great Britain > Early works to 1800.
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