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The Middle Passage served not only to erase a slave’s sense of human dignity, but the journey also wiped away the collective knowledge and cultural history of those captured.
Alfred was captured by Godwin, Earl of Wessex who turned him over to Harold Harefoot.
The US advance was swift and by 8 August, Le Mans, the former headquarters of the German 7th Army, had been captured.
It was captured shortly afterwards by the English and English control of the island was confirmed under the Treaty of Breda the following year.
In 1782, during the American Revolutionary War, France briefly captured Montserrat after supporting the American rebels.
They then captured two of the batteries, which led to a quick surrender by the French.
One of them, led by general Platen in September resulted in the loss of 2,000 Russians, mostly captured, and the destruction of 5,000 wagons.
The Russians under Zakhar Chernyshev and Pyotr Rumyantsev stormed Kolberg in Pomerania, while the Austrians captured Schweidnitz.
In 1756 and 1757 the French captured forts Oswego and William Henry from the British.
In the same year, the British also captured the French settlement in Bengal at Chandernagar.
The British captured Senegal with ease in May 1758 and brought home large amounts of captured goods.
On the same day, the RUF's leader, Foday Sankoh, was captured by Sierra Leonean forces, leaving the RUF in disarray.
Three American soldiers riding a Humvee in a routine patrol were captured by Yugoslav Special Forces across the Macedonian border.
Additionally, there was a lack of regulation in prisons where captured traffickers were sent.
The image on the right, spanning half a second, was captured with a stroboscopic flash at 20 flashes per second.
In 1506 the Earl of Huntly besieged and captured Stornoway Castle using cannon.
With dramatic insight he captured for all time the death throes of a great city.
In 1805, The Lay of the Last Minstrel captured wide public imagination, and his career as a writer was established in spectacular fashion.
Scott's fame grew as his explorations and interpretations of Scottish history and society captured popular imagination.
Throughout their careers, the members of the Who have said their live sound has never been captured as they wished on record.
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The film, which captured the music scene in the wake of punk, was masterminded by Stewart Copeland's brothers Ian and Miles.
Afterwards, digital water and smoke were added, as were extras captured on a motion capture stage.
As the first prominent Roundhead captured in the war, the Royalists intended to try Lilburne for high treason.
The government regained control of the mosque after 10 days and those captured were executed.
British forces regrouped and captured Baghdad in 1917, and defeated the Ottomans.
Ottoman losses are unknown but the British captured a total of 45,000 prisoners of war.
By February, most of Italian Somaliland was captured and in March, British Somaliland was retaken from the sea.
Special Forces killed two men and wounded and captured two others near the Somali village of Baarawe.
It was so indistinct that the photographer was not certain he had actually captured it.
Aachen was the first German city to be captured by the Allies, and its residents welcomed the soldiers as liberators.
However, the English captured him en route and he spent the next 18 years as a prisoner held for ransom.
Tax collection was justified by the need to maintain the military, and taxpayers sometimes got a refund if the army captured a surplus of booty.
In 1265, Llywelyn captured Hawarden Castle and routed the combined armies of Hamo Lestrange and Maurice fitz Gerald in north Wales.
The siege of Wark, for instance, which had been going on since January, continued until it was captured in November.
While King Edward marched through the subdued realm, the Scots nobles captured at Dunbar were taken south in chains.
The other, led by his brothers Thomas and Alexander, landed slightly further south in Loch Ryan, but they were soon captured and executed.
David was captured and taken prisoner by Sir John de Coupland, who imprisoned him in the Tower of London.
The Armagnacs then attacked and captured an English fortress built around a monastery called Les Augustins.
A rout ensued that decimated the main body of the English army and killed or captured most of its commanders.
Of 1,200 captured rebels taken to Edinburgh, some 400 were imprisoned in an area of Greyfriars Kirkyard over the winter months.
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The colony was captured by the Dutch in 1655 and merged into New Netherland, with most of the colonists remaining.
On August 16, a British foraging expedition was soundly defeated at Bennington, and more than 700 troops were captured.
After inadequate first attempts, 1,200 British troops led by William Dalrymple arrived on 16 October, and captured the fort on 20 October.
In the summer of 1779, the Americans captured British posts at Stony Point and Paulus Hook.
The expedition met with only limited success, though hundreds of settlers were killed or captured.
On December 29, 1778, an expeditionary corps from New York captured Savannah.
In May, Spanish troops captured the Bahamas, although the British bloodlessly recaptured the islands the following year on 18 April.
Spain initially impeded the negotiations, refusing to enter into peace talks until Gibraltar had been captured.
In September 1944, Chinese force captured the Mount Song to reopen the Burma Road.
Edward in turn invaded Scotland and captured Berwick, destroying much of the town and massacring many of the inhabitants.
In July 2017, footage of a live pine marten was captured by a camera trap in the North York Moors in Yorkshire.
If problems become unmanageable, as local administrators in Limburg fear, the beaver will be captured again.
Opened in 2006, the exhibits include uniforms, medals, weapons, regalia, music and a captured enemy standard from the Battle of Waterloo.
They are not at all such as we describe them when we relate that they let themselves be captured by virgins, but clean contrary to our notions.
Llywelyn defeated Owain and Dafydd and captured them, thereby becoming sole ruler of Gwynedd Uwch Conwy.
Dafydd's two surviving sons were captured and incarcerated at Bristol Gaol, where they eventually died many years later.
In June 1402, Owain defeated an English force led by Sir Edmund Mortimer at the Battle of Bryn Glas, and Mortimer was captured.
Despite enormous rewards being offered, he was neither captured nor betrayed.
Other historians consider that they were enslaved while captured during the battles with the Tatars.
He is recorded to have paid a penny for hostages captured by Vikings, a large sum for his time.
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Caesar captured Vercingetorix in the Battle of Alesia, which ended the majority of Gallic resistance to Rome.
In this furious campaign his armies devastated Northumbria, captured and sacked York in 633 and briefly controlled the kingdom.
It is likely that his wife, daughters, niece and one of his sons were captured alongside him.
Gruffydd was nearly captured, but was warned in time to escape out to sea in one of his ships, though his other ships were destroyed.
In 1146 he captured Mold Castle and about 1150 captured Rhuddlan and encroached on the borders of Powys.
Bangor was burnt by a detachment of the royal army and the Bishop of Bangor captured.
In early 1223, Llywelyn crossed the border into Shropshire and captured Kinnerley and Whittington castles.
De Burgh's fleet scattered the French and captured their flagship, commanded by Eustace the Monk, who was promptly executed.
His brother Richard was captured, and Henry and Edward retreated to the local priory and surrendered the following day.
It was, however, Edward's army flying the Montfort banners they had captured at Kenilworth.
War finally drew to a close in May 1283 when Dolbadarn Castle, Dafydd ap Gruffudd's last castle, was captured.
Madog's forces captured the town in September, and in the process heavily damaged the town walls.
Edward's regime collapsed and he fled into Wales, where he was captured in November.
Andrew Harclay cornered Lancaster at the Battle of Boroughbridge, and captured the Earl.
He captured the Constable outside the castle and he and his men captured the outer ward but could not break into the inner defences.
In 1406, English pirates captured the future James I of Scotland off the coast of Flamborough Head as he was going to France.
These needed to be captured to allow XV Corps to advance further into German territory.
The 10th SWB captured the eastern stretches of the wood and inflicted many casualties on the Germans.
Despite their resistance, the German second line was captured without delay.
The 115th Brigade crossed the river and cleared several German positions facing them, took at least 30 prisoners and captured 15 machine guns.
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He proceeded to organise the defence of the position, and fought off a German counterattack with heavy losses using captured machine guns.
On the Baltic coast from 1 to 5 September 1917, the Germans attacked with their strategic reserve of six divisions and captured Riga.
General William Birdwood later wrote that the return of heavy rain and mud sloughs was the main cause of the failure to hold captured ground.
Poelcappelle was captured but the attack at the junction between the 34th and 35th divisions was repulsed.
The attackers on the southern flank quickly captured Crest Farm and sent patrols beyond the final objective into Passchendaele.
In fewer than three hours, many units reached their final objectives and Passchendaele was captured.
John Tucker Edwardes, the creator of the Sealyham terrier, used captured wild male polecats to test the gameness of yearling terriers.
Dionysus was once captured by Etruscan pirates who mistook him for a wealthy prince they could ransom.
Nearly half of these died of diseases caught before they were captured, or damage sustained during capture and transit.
They are mainly captured using purse seine nets, and are managed as a single stock that includes multiple species.
Vyvyan built a mint in Truro and became its Master until 1646 when it was captured by parliamentarians.
Many of the ideas generated at the time were captured in a Cycle Chester Masterplan document.
Some were captured, and several were damaged to such an extent they were never maintained as defences again.
Turan Shah conquered Zabid from the Mahdids in May 1174, then marched toward Aden in June and captured it from the Zurayids.
Llywelyn was killed that December, and in early 1283 Dafydd was captured and executed.
In June 2009 Cooke captured the Giro del Trentino title and won her national championship for the tenth time.
When Gollum set out in search of the Ring, he was captured and tortured by Sauron.
In contrast to scallops captured by a dredge across the sea floor, diver scallops tend to be less gritty.
Jellies destroy fish nets, poison or crush captured fish, and consume fish eggs and young fish.
Other than at SeaWorld, at least 90 common dolphins are known to have been captured from the wild and kept in captivity.
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The catches increased every year until in 1956, there were approximately 10,000 pilot whales successfully captured and killed.
Between 1964 and 1976, 50 killer whales from the Pacific Northwest were captured for display in aquaria, and public interest in the animals grew.
On May 29, however, the seven activists from Greenpeace were peacefully captured by Norwegian police on the rig.
Power is captured from the gravitational force of water falling through penstocks to water turbines connected to generators.
Some captured Europeans were held on Lundy before being sent to Algiers as slaves.
In 1971, SeaWorld captured a California gray whale calf in Mexico at Scammon's Lagoon.
The Normans finished their conquest in 1091, when they captured Noto, which was the last Arab stronghold.
The Expedition of the Thousand led by Giuseppe Garibaldi captured Sicily in 1860, as part of the Risorgimento.
Of those 2,700 gigawatts, only about 500 gigawatts can be captured with the current technology.
A new wave of Norwegian Vikings appeared in England in 947 when Eric Bloodaxe captured York.
By the Pliocene period, the Rhine had captured streams down to the Vosges Mountains, including the Mosel, the Main and the Neckar.
In 1596, the fort was captured by the Spanish Netherlands until May 1598 when it was returned to the French following the Treaty of Vervins.
No carideans were significantly involved in aquaculture, but about 430,000 tonnes were captured in the wild.
Gigi II was another grey whale calf that was captured in the Ojo de Liebre Lagoon, and was transported to SeaWorld.
Fleeing, they were captured at the tollbooth at Berwick and imprisoned, but were later able to tunnel out of their gaol and escape.
In 1665 many Dutch ships were captured, and Dutch trade and industry were hurt.
In 1965, Marder wrote that over 1,000 German sailors had been killed or captured for British casualties of fewer than 50 men killed or wounded.
In some fisheries, cetaceans are captured as bycatch but then retained because of their value as food or bait.
However, they are not completely effective, and some turtles are still captured.
Land constrictions such as straits or inlets can create high velocities at specific sites, which can be captured with the use of turbines.
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When Washington is captured by the Army of Northern Virginia, Abraham Lincoln reluctantly concedes the Confederacy's independence.
Under the Music, Festivals and Dance sections below, the richness of these aspects that have captured the world's attention are outlined.
The Medway has captured the head waters of other rivers such as the River Darent.
After the ransom was paid, Caesar raised a fleet, pursued and captured the pirates, and imprisoned them.
Richard had in fact been captured en route to England by the Duke of Austria and was handed over to Emperor Henry VI, who held him for ransom.
His forces caught Arthur by surprise and captured the entire rebel leadership at the battle of Mirebeau.
When word reached Philip that Richard had finished crusading and had been captured on his way back from the Holy Land, he promptly invaded Vexin.
His primary objective was the fortress of Issoudun, which had just been captured by Richard's mercenary commander, Mercadier.
His forces soon captured Arthur, and in 1203, the young man disappeared, with most people believing that John had had him murdered.
The war against the Cathars did not end until 1244, when their last strongholds were finally captured.
Kenneth Harl has pointed out that as few as eleven ships were sent to combat the Vikings, only two of which were not beaten back or captured.
The Chinese destroyed one vessel by targeting its gunpowder magazine, and captured another Portuguese ship.
Hawke pursued, taking a high risk in the middle of a violent storm, and captured or drove ashore five French ships.
Had he not repeatedly clashed with the commander of the land expedition, the force might have captured poorly defended Belfast.
A foothold was established on Aubers Ridge on 17 October and French cavalry captured Fromelles.
On 19 October, parties of British infantry and French cavalry captured the village of Le Pilly, which later was recaptured by the Germans.
On 12 October, the British cavalry advanced and captured the Mont des Cats.
On April 27, 1945, as Allied forces closed in on Milan, Mussolini was captured by Italian Partisans.
On April 28, Mussolini and several of the other Fascists captured with him were taken to Dongo and executed by shooting squad.
The documents were captured but Allied intelligence doubted that they were genuine.
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The French disabled about 160 German tanks for 91 Hotchkiss H35 and 30 Somua S35 tanks destroyed or captured.
Rommel and his 7th Panzer Division headed west over the Seine river through Normandy and captured the port of Cherbourg on 18 June.
Of the 58 major fortifications on the Maginot Line, just 10 were captured by the Wehrmacht in battle.
The unit under his command, barely above company size when it had captured the Italian fort, had grown into an armoured division.
However, the tank losses are amplified by the large numbers that were abandoned or scuttled and subsequently captured.
The Germans captured 5,000 Allied troops in Boulogne, the majority of whom were French.
On 20 May, the Germans captured Abbeville at the mouth of the Somme River, cutting off the Allied troops in Northern France and Belgium.
When the Germans captured Abbeville on 20 May, the War Office in Britain ordered troops to be despatched to the channel ports as a precaution.
The German troops who broke in began to fire in enfilade on the defenders from the houses they had captured.
All eight of the crewman shot down were captured but released after the French surrender.
By 24 May, the Germans had captured the port of Boulogne and surrounded Calais.
On 20 May, the Germans had captured Abbeville at the mouth of the Somme and cut off the main Allied armies in the north.
The 4th Army captured bridgeheads over the Somme but the attack on the Aisne failed against the French defence in depth.
Those Royal Marines that did reach the shore were either killed or captured.
Of the 50 US Army Rangers serving with different Commando units, six were killed, seven wounded, and four captured.
Under attack, the men at the point became isolated, and some were captured.
In action at the Falaise pocket, 50,000 men were lost, of whom 10,000 were killed and 40,000 captured.
It was later captured by Henry V in 1417 and treated harshly for being the first town to put up any resistance to his invasion.
His songs perfectly captured the zeitgeist of 1960s America.
Once captured on film, an astrophoto does no good unless transferred to a form you can see and examine closely.
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Napoleon was nearly captured by the Cossacks after the Battle of Brienne, but was saved by one of his generals.
Whatever the condition of a captured brumby, there is always the potential of selling it for pet food, fish bait, or even for human consumption.
Once, when I was a comiconomenclaturist, I captured the name Rick Shaw. On the radio, t'other day, was a Robin Banks.
The gingerbread was delicately, if imprecisely, captured by the brushstrokes.
At one moment he gave himself up completely to his pride at having captured this pretty, trustful, dewy-eyed thing!
During the English Civil War, the Parliamentarians captured the isles, only to see their garrison mutiny and return the isles to the Royalists.
The Roman historian Suetonius mentions that the island was captured by the commander Vespasian.
Pizarro's main pilot sailed south and, after crossing the equator, captured a raft from Tumbes.
York was the base for Royalists, and from there they captured Leeds and Wakefield only to have them recaptured a few months later.
However, Rome discovered the agreement when Philip's emissaries were captured by a Roman fleet.
When the Briton general Caractacus was captured in 50 AD, Claudius granted him clemency.
After his final defeat he fled to the territory of Queen Cartimandua, who captured him and handed him over to the Romans.
In 866, Northumbria was in the midst of internecine struggles when the Vikings raided and captured York.
Constantine drove them back beyond the Rhine and captured two of their kings, Ascaric and Merogaisus.
An Eastern army landed in Italia, captured Joannes, cut his hand off, abused him in public, and killed him with most of his senior officials.
According to the Confession of Saint Patrick, at the age of sixteen Patrick was captured by a group of Irish pirates.
On his way back to Britain Saint Patrick was captured again and spent 60 days in captivity in Tours, France.
Halfdan and Ivar moved north and captured Northumbria in 867 and York as well.
Guthrum and the Danes brokered peace with Wessex in 876, when they captured the fortresses of Wareham and Exeter.
During the peace, the Danes turned north and attacked Mercia, which they finished off in short order, and captured London in the process.
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Hereward's forces attacked Peterborough Abbey, which they captured and looted.
Hereward escaped, but Morcar was captured, deprived of his earldom, and imprisoned.
In 1141 Stephen was captured at the Battle of Lincoln and later exchanged for Robert who had also been captured.
The barons, under Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, captured most of southeast England in the Second Barons' War.
The couple invaded England and, with Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, captured the king.
York and the Nevilles fled abroad, but the Nevilles returned to win the Battle of Northampton, where they captured Henry.
An army was dispatched to drive back the Brittany rebels, whom Henry then pursued, surprised and captured.
Word then reached Henry that King William had been defeated and captured by local forces at Alnwick, crushing the rebel cause in the north.
Geoffrey followed at the head of his army and quickly captured several fortresses in southern Normandy.
Stephen was captured in February 1141 at the Battle of Lincoln, which prompted the collapse of his authority in both England and Normandy.
At Winchester, Robert of Gloucester was captured while covering Matilda's retreat so Matilda freed Stephen in exchange for Robert.
Philip attacked Henry in Normandy and captured strongholds in Berry, then they met to discuss peace again.
Eleanor was captured, so Richard was left to lead his campaign against Henry II's supporters in Aquitaine on his own.
Henry II's forces took Saintes by surprise and captured much of its garrison, although Richard was able to escape with a small group of soldiers.
William I of Scotland and Hugh Bigod were captured on 13 and 25 July respectively.
Edward then captured Northampton from Montfort's son Simon, before embarking on a retaliatory campaign against Derby's lands.
Shortly after this, on 17 October, an English army defeated and captured King David II of Scotland at the Battle of Neville's Cross.
The greatly outnumbered English forces not only routed the French, but captured the French king, John II and his youngest son, Philip.
He besieged and captured Melun in November, returning to England shortly thereafter.
From July to August, Henry's forces besieged and captured Dreux, thus relieving allied forces at Chartres.
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Having captured a small part of Ireland on the east coast, Henry used the land to solve a dispute dividing his family.
In the Battle of Poitiers, the French suffered another humiliating defeat, and their king was captured.
In 1525, at the Battle of Pavia, the French were defeated and the king himself was captured.
The English army captured the completely unguarded Caen in just one day, surprising the French.
A castle that once could only be captured after a prolonged siege would now fall after a few days from cannon bombardment.
Thomas raised a northern army but was defeated and captured at the Battle of Boroughbridge.
Henry was captured by the opposition when the Nevilles returned and won the Battle of Northampton.
After Lancastrian revolts in the north were suppressed in 1464 and Henry was captured once again and placed in the Tower of London.
Edward was captured at Olney, Buckinghamshire, and imprisoned at Middleham Castle in Yorkshire.
From the testimony of the captured leaders, he declared that Warwick and George, Duke of Clarence, had instigated them.
He was captured after the failed Second Cornish Uprising of 1497 and executed in 1499, after attempting to escape from prison.
In 1456, Henry's father Edmund Tudor was captured while fighting for Henry VI in South Wales against the Yorkists.
In 1497 Warbeck landed in Cornwall with a few thousand troops, but was soon captured and executed.
Richard's spies informed him of Buckingham's activities, and the king's men captured and destroyed the bridges across the River Severn.
In September 1858 the expeditionary force captured and occupied the port of Da Nang, and then in February 1859 moved south and captured Saigon.
Spain had chosen England's weakest link and probably could have captured London in a week.
Drake and his party found that they had captured around 20 tons of silver and gold.
Some Spanish ships were captured, and Drake used their more accurate charts.
Drake gave chase and eventually captured the treasure ship, which proved his most profitable capture.
This time, a Scots army defeated Charles's forces in the north, then captured Newcastle.
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The victors captured Montrose shortly afterwards and took him to Edinburgh.
After Rupert captured Bristol in July 1643, Charles visited the port city and lay siege to Gloucester, further up the river Severn.
However, he was captured on 11 December by fishermen in Faversham opposite Sheerness, the town on the Isle of Sheppey.
Monmouth was captured and later executed at the Tower of London on 15 July.
In October the Convention troops captured Lyon and reinstated a Montagnard government there.
The Allies then invaded France and captured Paris in the spring of 1814, forcing Napoleon to abdicate in April.
In this Italian campaign, Bonaparte's army captured 150,000 prisoners, 540 cannons, and 170 standards.
The fall of Vienna provided the French a huge bounty as they captured 100,000 muskets, 500 cannons, and the intact bridges across the Danube.
Napoleon attempted suicide with a pill he had carried after nearly being captured by the Russians during the retreat from Moscow.
Nelson spent the rest of the war cruising in the West Indies, where he captured a number of French and Spanish prizes.
Nelson led his party from the deck of San Nicolas onto San Josef and captured her as well.
The British raiding force captured the Spanish boat and towed her back to Theseus.
The Allied offensives in Italy had succeeded and, at the expense of allowing several German divisions to retreat, on 4 June, Rome was captured.
The soldiers captured in Kalamata were transported by train to prisoner of war camps.
The hillforts of the Durotriges at Ham Hill and Cadbury Castle were captured.
William participated in a rebellion against King Henry II of England but when the rebellion failed, William was captured by the English.
In a bid to gain Newcastle and the Tyne, Cromwell's allies, the Scots, captured the town of Newburn.
In 1644, the Scots then captured the reinforced fortification on the Lawe in South Shields following a siege.
Their fate remained in doubt until the very last game of the season. This truly was a team that captured lightning in a bottle.
New thralls were supplied by either the sons and daughters of thralls or they were captured abroad.
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The Vikings often deliberately captured many people on their raids in Europe, enslaved and made them into thralls.
In that same year, he captured Seleucia and the Parthian capital Ctesiphon.
Reaching Ctesiphon, the Parthian capital, he ordered plundering and his army slew and captured many people.
In the following century, the Arabs also captured southern Italy and Sicily.
Henry won early success in Lorraine, where he captured Metz, but French offensives in Italy failed.
The naval battle was decided in the Sicilians' favour, and the Byzantine commander was captured.
Guru Arjan was captured by Mughal authorities who were suspicious and hostile to the religious order he was developing.
Mandeville exploited this, selling his allegiance to Matilda after Stephen was captured in 1141 at the Battle of Lincoln.
When Edward captured Henry's wife, Margaret of Anjou, she was brought back to be detained at the castle.
This flow of foreign visitors was captured for the queen's entertainment in William Shakespeare's play, The Merry Wives of Windsor.
The Horseshoe Cloister was taken over as a prison for captured Royalists, and the resident canons were expelled from the castle.
They were connected to the castle by removable wooden bridges, so if the towers were captured the rest of the castle was not accessible.
Along with several other conspirators, he took part in the Earl of Essex's rebellion in 1601, during which he was wounded and captured.
Humphrey Littleton, who had escaped from the authorities at Hagley, got as far as Prestwood in Staffordshire before he was captured.
He pleaded not guilty, despite his apparent acceptance of guilt from the moment he was captured.
Hornigold placed him in command of a sloop he had captured, and the two engaged in numerous acts of piracy.
Teach captured a French merchant vessel, renamed her Queen Anne's Revenge, and equipped her with 40 guns.
Teach probably sailed toward Havana, where he may have captured a small Spanish vessel that had left the Cuban port.
All vessels entering or leaving the port were stopped, and as the town had no guard ship, its pilot boat was the first to be captured.
Teach moved his fleet, and the captured ships, to within about five or six leagues from land.
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Those left on the Adventure were captured by the Ranger's crew, including one who planned to set fire to the powder room and blow up the ship.
He also captured numerous regional and sectional titles, accumulating 18,202.10 masterpoints.
On one occasion I spent the night with the Brigade Machine Gun Officer and the Signals Officer in one of the captured German dugouts.
In the annus mirabilis of 1759 British forces captured Quebec and Guadeloupe.
Some critics, fans, and general audiences have expressed disappointment that the series has not captured any Oscars for its achievements.
After sneaking out the back, Brian is then finally captured and scheduled to be crucified.
France won three gold medals and Italy two, while Great Britain captured five medals overall, but none were gold.
Each of these drivers, with the exception of Senna and Button, have captured one drivers' title with the team.
He is also the youngest player to have won the Masters, having captured his first title in 1995 at the age of 19 years and 69 days.
The Crusaders then delayed for months while they argued over who would have the captured territory.
Led by Conrad, Archbishop of Mainz, the army captured the cities of Sidon and Beirut.
Leopold and John of Brienne besieged and captured Damietta but an army advancing into Egypt was compelled to surrender.
He also proposed the creation of a Mandate system for captured colonies of the Central Powers during the war.
De Courcy marched north at speed, into kingdom of Ulaid, and captured the town of Downpatrick.
A messenger carrying documents from Comyn to Edward was captured by Bruce and his party, plainly implicating Comyn.
They suffered heavy casualties and David was wounded in the face by two arrows before being captured.
Two months later, David II of Scotland was captured at the Battle of Neville's Cross, in a botched invasion of Northern England.
However, the plan was interrupted by the rebellion in 1608 of Sir Cahir O'Doherty of Inishowen, who captured and burned the town of Derry.
In the Roman province of Britannia, Saint Patrick was captured and enslaved by Irish pirates.
Pirates had a system of hierarchy on board their ships determining how captured money was distributed.
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It is known there were actions with multiple ships captured where a single share was worth almost double this.
The American privateers had almost 1,700 ships, and they captured 2,283 enemy ships.
In Finland, one case involved pirates who had been captured and whose boat was sunk.
Pirates were legally subject to summary execution by their captors if captured in battle.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein was a brilliantly successful Dutch privateer who captured a Spanish treasure fleet.
The extra crewmen were also useful as prize crews for returning captured vessels.
When the Americans captured the Bermudian privateer Regulator, they discovered that virtually all of her crew were black slaves.
The Spanish did not hear of the Providence Island colony until 1635, when they captured some Englishmen in Portobelo, on the Isthmus of Panama.
The Jacobites captured Perth and at Coatbridge on the way to Edinburgh routed two regiments of the government's Dragoons.
Washington captured a Hessian force at Trenton and drove the British out of New Jersey, restoring American confidence.
The Germans had captured high ground near Bouzincourt and Aveluy, overlooking the British lines.
Washington retreated, and Howe returned to Manhattan and captured Fort Washington in mid November, taking about 3,000 prisoners.
One notable success took place on February 5, 1782, when Spanish and French forces captured Minorca, which Spain retained after the war.
Thornton, Europeans usually bought enslaved people who were captured in endemic warfare between African states.
After being captured and held in the factories, slaves entered the infamous Middle Passage.
By 1795, the French had captured the Austrian Netherlands and knocked Spain and Prussia out of the war with the Peace of Basel.
French ships sent to assist them were captured by the Royal Navy off County Donegal.
On 5 August, they captured Warsaw and forced the Russians to withdraw from Poland.
Samakh and Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee, were captured on the way northwards to Damascus.
Osman's son, Orhan, captured the northwestern Anatolian city of Bursa in 1326, and made it the new capital of the Ottoman state.

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