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When campaigning, Rostov allowed himself the indulgence of riding not a regimental but a Cossack horse.
He wrote Famous and Decisive Battles (1884), Campaigning with Crook (1890), and many popular romances of military life.
180 when campaigning against them.
His campaigning was not yet at an end, for in 1673 he was appointed by the stadtholder William III.
He now formed the design of joining the Austrian army, for the purpose of campaigning against the Turks, and so crossed over from Dover to Calais with Gibbon, who, writing to his friend Lord Sheffield, calls his fellow-passenger "Mr SecretaryColonel-Admiral-Philosopher Thompson."