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Eugenie's captor hauled his prize ashore, propped her up in a taxicab and trundled her through his village as a curiosity...
...torso parallel to the ground, her other leg arrow-straight behind her. Three times she made a vicious break for freedom, three times she had her wild wings pinned by the hunter. At last, exhausted, she sagged in defeat, and as ransom, presented her captor with a gold feather. He set her free...
...kissed the hem of his robe. But by the middle of World War I, a group of fanatic Moslems, incited by the Turks, had marked him for capture. A native trusted by Abbé de Foucauld decoyed him from the new French fort at Tamanrasset. Grilled by his captors, he prayed in silence, made no resistance, and said only: "Baghi n'mout-This is the hour of my death." Shortly after, his chief captor put a carbine muzzle against Foucauld's temple and pulled the trigger. Charles de Foucauld had made his last stand for God and France...
...great Field Marshal Smuts against the hated British; after Smuts made peace (in 1902), they fought one another. Alberts, in 1914, rebelled against South Africa's pro-British government; he was defeated and captured by one of Smuts's toughest lieutenants: Dolf de la Rey. Since then, captor and captive have gone their separate ways: Alberts backed Malan; De la Rey is now vice president of the anti-Malan Torch Commando...
...According to the Geneva Convention, lists of war prisoners can be drawn up in the language of the captor country...