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...march through Georgia, burned Russell's grandfather's cotton mills and freed his 100-odd slaves. † For his cut-rate installation, after much haggling, Marlborough plunked down ?4,500, a bargain price for Mindelheim, which yielded a'Udy ?1,500 a year to its fief-holder...
...General Ba Cut declared that he would behead Viet Nam's Premier Ngo Dinh Diem as a warning of the power of the Hoa Hao, the piratical "religious" sect that once boasted an army of 20,000 and ruled large areas of Viet Nam as a feudal fief. The threat was characteristic of Ba Cut's fanatic life. At 17, hot-eyed Ba Cut swore he would fight to the death against the French, and he cut off the tip of his forefinger to seal his oath. At 21, he switched, began fighting the Viet Minh. The Geneva...
...Patrón. Vicos' plight was ancient. Spanish conquistadores reduced the Inca population there (and all along the high Andes) to feudal serfdom; with independence from Spain, Peru had merely converted the fief into government property leased at about $800 a year to patrones, who got the Indian workers along with the land. The deadening centuries had stripped the Indians of all their skills, pleasures, and arts, and even of the imagination to conceive of a happier...
...army defeated Mahdi's followers at the battle of Omdurman. At first both London and Cairo shared the administration, but in 1925 the British kicked their partner out. Egyptian independence left Sudan as the northern bulwark of Britain's East African Empire. Sudan was Cairo's fief in the days before the Mahdi; more important, it controls the headstreams of the Nile. Cairo's policy is to unite the Nile valley from source to estuary, i.e., to annex Sudan. Britain's counterproposal: Sudanese independence, if possible within the Commonwealth...
George Washington and numerous modern historians are being dragged into the arena where Cambridge and Somerville are battling over which town fief the first flag used by the colonies during the Revolution...