Word: brigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tenth cousin, Kidnapped follows the story of the novel accurately enough. David Balfour (James MacArthur, 22-year-old son of Actress Helen Hayes), "a steady lad and a canny goer," is diddled out of an inheritance by his wicked Uncle Ebenezer, who has the boy sandbagged aboard a brig bound west for the Carolinas, where the infamous Captain Hoseason intends to sell him as a bondslave. But the ship is wrecked off the Isle of Mull, and David, washed ashore, soon finds himself involved in a political murder case. Pursued by Hanoverian redcoats, he flees through the Scottish Highlands. Home...
...first time the army cordon around the insurgent stronghold in the heart of Algiers kept out the Algiers mob and most of the rebels' outside support. The marked stiffening of the army's attitude followed the sudden replacement of Brig. Gen. Jean Gracieux by Brig. Gen. Kleber Toulouse as on-the-spot commander. Gracieux was sent back to the countryside to fight the Algerian nationalist rebels...