Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dangerous designs and treasonable conspiracies against the rights and liberties of the United States of America," Matthews admitted that he had received more than ?100 from Tory Governor William Tryon, at Tryon's headquarters aboard the transport Duchess of Gordon, mostly for the purchase of guns to arm Tory sympathizers...
...appearance of the devil than any human being." Malcohn survived that mauling ?only to be trapped by another mob three months later. This time "he was stript stark naked, one of the severest cold nights this winter, his body covered all over with tar, then with feathers, his arm dislocated in tearing off his cloaths. Some beating him with clubs ... for about five hours...
Beaumarchais's entreaties and warnings, combined with Vergennes's eloquence, convinced Louis only two months ago, and the King authorized the secret expenditure of 1 million livres, or about ?43,000, to help arm the Americans. The Spanish government, which also fears British designs on its Caribbean and American colonies, is expected to add another 1 million livres to the French project next month...
...eleven days and through half a dozen operations, during which both legs and his right arm were amputated, Bolles had fought for his life. His last whispered words−"Mafia ... Emprise...
...stroke of noon, the curly-haired 30-year-old King Carl XVI Gustaf took the arm of his 32-year-old bride−Commoner Silvia Sommerlath, the vivacious daughter of a West German businessman. Then they began the long walk to the ebony and gold altar. Their vows were identical to those exchanged by all Swedes marrying in the state Lutheran Church. Flanking the altar upon cushioned taborets were two gold, jewel-encrusted crowns, which they will never put upon their royal heads. Reason: Carl Gustaf's countrymen would deem that unsuitably undemocratic...