Like other personalistic leaders, he has preferred loyalists over experienced, well-trained experts when making government appointments. |
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He removed entrenched ministers in favor of his own loyalists and installed a close aide in the office of the new prime minister. |
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We have a huge responsibility on our shoulders now and the sooner the loyalists are sorted out the better. |
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Police were investigating unconfirmed reports of shots being fired as loyalists and nationalists confronted each other in Ardoyne. |
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Pro-Agreement loyalists in north Belfast report that attitudes are hardening. |
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As the trial unfolded, the press split between those who thought her a liar and a cheat, but believed the jury would acquit, and the loyalists. |
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For the Mets and their unfortunate loyalists, the 2003 season has swan-dived into a yearlong anniversary celebration of the 1993 team. |
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Nationalists and loyalists fought first each other, and then police who tried to separate them. |
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He was injured as sustained attacks on the security forces by both nationalists and loyalists continued. |
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They came here for sanctuary after feuding between loyalists erupted into threats of execution. |
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The Ardoyne area remained tense last night as nationalists and loyalists braced themselves for more clashes following two nights of trouble. |
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And as night fell, rioting erupted between rival gangs of nationalists and loyalists in the north of the city. |
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Criminals, saboteurs, and diehard regime loyalists must be detained and tried in a fair manner. |
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It was only when the police started firing plastic bullets that loyalists went in search of their own weapons. |
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Soulless indulgence, on top of a loss of confidence, had taken deep root, and this frightened loyalists most of all. |
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The faction of Moscow loyalists essentially waited and picked up the pieces of the shattered organization. |
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In this lucrative post he distributed many patronage jobs, rewarding party loyalists while also seeking to recognize merit. |
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But even that function is pretty meager, for only sparse audiences of curious spectators and hard core loyalists ever show up at their confabs. |
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Now all but the most unquestioning loyalists are having serious second thoughts. |
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But now U.S. forces feels it's a nest of former regime loyalists and anti coalition fighters. |
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The loyalists in the front line won't listen to nationalist or republican leaders. |
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Likewise, there is no place in the new government for republicans or loyalists before full paramilitary decommissioning by both sides. |
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But he blamed such strikes on terrorists and loyalists from the defunct regime. |
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They were puzzled and frustrated by the decision to get rid of all the guns when loyalists remain fully armed. |
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It calls for a power-sharing government that loyalists say hands too much power to rebels. |
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The Revolution itself divided the populace, with patriots and loyalists battling one another for control of what each saw as their country. |
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Security forces had allied with extreme loyalists to expel families from their homes. |
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However, the security services consistently had a much higher rate of arrest against loyalists than nationalists. |
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But they were ready to claim as many as 28 to 30 seats based upon a slogan of chasing the government loyalists out of office. |
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Between 1998 and 1999, loyalists assaulted and shot 123 people, while republicans assaulted and shot 93 people. |
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That fact alone permits Christie loyalists to greet the new negativity with a healthy degree of sangfroid. |
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We have been very concerned about the fighting between Fatah and Hamas loyalists that has claimed several lives. |
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He was released in 1999 under the Good Friday Agreement, only to be taken back to jail in August 2000 for allegedly stirring up rivalries among loyalists. |
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His team is replete with loyalists in the White House, and senior cabinet officers who lack the clout of their predecessors. |
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Mr Wahid has always portrayed his opponents as Suharto loyalists hankering for a return to the old dictatorial ways. |
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Even Iraqi loyalists, at least at the level of common men and women, say privately that, this time, the long years may be up. |
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The only delegates from the Russian side were Kremlin loyalists. |
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She only met her Conservative loyalists to relay her message and to look good. |
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Maybe they were perfectly happy to have that material … sort of 'arrive', and put into the hands of the loyalists. |
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Others expect government forces and loyalists to be enraged and searching for revenge in the aftermath. |
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The other, held by many republicans, insists that British thinking on the North is, in fact, indistinguishable from that of hardline unionists and loyalists. |
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These clan loyalists are often willing not only to cast ballots but also to shed blood. |
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White fumes rose from tear gas fired by the French, and black smoke billowed from a roadblock of burning metal drums set afire at the base gates by the loyalists. |
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In colonial America loyalists to the crown were called Tories. |
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Many moroccan loyalists retaliated, looting and pillaging Sahrawi neighborhoods. |
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There is every chance of seeing his first initiatives picked up from the expectations of his loyalists. |
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Senussi will probably try to implicate other former regime loyalists, some still in Libya, many in exile elsewhere in North Africa. |
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They are basically trading casualties one-for-one with the regime loyalists which, as any brass hat will tell you, ain't no way to win at counter-insurgency. |
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He dishes out jobs to loyalists but harasses businessmen suspected of helping the fractured opposition. |
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Egypt intervened on the side of the nationalist republicans against the loyalists of the Zaydi imamate, backed by Saudi Arabia. |
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Steady loyalists are bound to miss the band's emotive clangour, but Clear Heart finds valid new arrangements for Finn's addictive storytelling. |
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Hard-core government loyalists increasingly are insisting that the French clear a buffer zone between north and south to allow government forces to attack the rebels again. |
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The regime has started to deconstruct its assets, letting loyalists dominate industries and gangs loot. |
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That night, loyalists took to the streets of Belfast in protest at the report. |
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But Arkansans are not one-party loyalists. |
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The rebels were mostly loyalists to Edward IV, who saw Richard as a usurper. |
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The Calvinistic Methodists are intensely national in sentiment and aspirations, beyond all suspicion loyalists. |
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Americans dissatisfied with their government do of course have the right to emigrate, but they do not have the right to sunder the union in a fit of pique. Second, there are far more loyalists than secessionists. |
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About 15 Orangemen took part in a silent token parade past the contested shopfronts, jeered by nationalists and cheered by loyalists. |
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She seems in no hurry to assert herself, yet many Congress loyalists swear undying devotion to her. In this section Fiji ends its isolation Nothing is really private in Vietnam Did Britain's diplomats blunder? |
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Also in the east of the city, loyalists hurled more than 50 petrol bombs at the RUC, and police found a stockpile of 1,200 milk bottles, used to make petrol bombs, hidden on a nearby housing estate. |
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The SDLP accused Mr Adams of deploying the same argument as those who oppose an inquiry into allegations of security force collusion in the 1989 killing of solicitor Pat Finucane by loyalists. |
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Libya Gaddafi loyalists are far from beaten in the town of Bani Walid where their continuing resistance is creating mayhem and a major problem for the Libyan authorities, writes Chris Stephen. |
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The furore is also likely to put further pressure on loyalist paramilitary leaders who have been arguing that loyalists refrain from retaliating over recent attacks by dissident republicans. |
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The diciest moment came when hundreds of Saleh loyalists, touting swords and knives, massed outside the UAE Embassy. |
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In that instance it was young loyalists who were so balefully xenophobic. |
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On 4 and 5 September 2007, an armed confrontation broke out between self-declared FNL dissidents and loyalists in Bujumbura Mairie and Cibitoke provinces. |
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At Groton, I had been preoccupied with the differences between me and my classmates, between girls and boys, liberals and conservatives, loyalists to the feminist cause or unrepentant boors. |
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Within a year the Treaty of Paris had been negotiated, recognising the independence of the Thirteen Colonies and leaving Johnson and the thousands of loyalists who had fled to Canada in permanent exile from their homeland. |
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Bad weather deterred more than 200 loyalists from gathering at his graveside in Ramallah, the Palestinians' seat of government in the West Bank, the core of their hoped-for state. |
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It helped widen a rift in the UCD between Berlusconi loyalists like himself and the mutineers under Mr Follini, who subsequently agreed to further talks on constitutional reform in August. |
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It lends plausibility to the idea that some former loyalists, after years of internal rifts and months of defections, might be ready to shop Pol Pot to obtain acceptable terms for abandoning the armed struggle. |
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The end of the Revolutionary War brought an influx of American loyalists. |
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Among the police officers hurt was a woman injured on the hand and another female officer hurt as loyalists smashed up cars belonging to councillors, including that of a Democratic Unionist, and attacked security staff. |
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On Tuesday, Laura McNamee, a fellow Alliance party member councillor said she had been forced to leave her home in east Belfast due to threats from extreme loyalists over the city hall flag vote. |
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We urge the government to fix this problem by including parliamentary secretaries in the act's definition of designated public office holder to prevent future secret meetings between lobbyists and Conservative loyalists. |
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The organization is one of Zimbabwe's most outspoken critics of President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party, and a frequent target of intimidation and threats by Zanu-PF loyalists. |
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Nicolas, now aged 17, from a village near Nyamilima in Rutshuru, joined the mayi-mayi at the age of 15 after he witnessed his elder brother being shot dead by Nkunda loyalists. |
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Geoffrey raised a revolt in Anjou while Stephen attacked Angevin loyalists in England. |
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The war was not going well for the loyalists, but Prince Louis and the rebel barons were also finding it difficult to make further progress. |
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When the expected fleet did arrive in August, it was intercepted and defeated by loyalists at the Battle of Sandwich. |
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He claimed the title in exile in France and loyalists revolted in his name across Wales. |
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Moreover, the family of Edward IV, and the Edwardian loyalists, were naturally opposed to him, essentially dividing his Yorkist power base. |
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Historically, the term Tory has been applied in various ways to loyalists of the British monarchy. |
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The Danish army encircled and besieged London, but Edmund was able to escape and raised an army of loyalists. |
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This campaign was met with violence by loyalists who viewed the campaign as a republican stalking horse. |
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On 19 April there were clashes between NICRA marchers, the RUC and loyalists in the Bogside. |
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Taunts and missiles were exchanged between the loyalists and nationalist residents. |
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After being bombarded with stones and petrol bombs from nationalists, the RUC, backed by loyalists, tried to storm the Bogside. |
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In Belfast, loyalists responded by invading nationalist districts, burning houses and businesses. |
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There were gun battles between nationalists and the RUC, and between nationalists and loyalists. |
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Song loyalists escaped from the capital and enthroned a young child as Emperor Bing of Song. |
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Of the 210 loyalists arrested by the Stevens Inquiries team, 207 were found to be state agents or informers. |
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The city was defended by a mix of regular Iraqi army units, Ba'ath loyalists, and Fedayeen from both Iraq and abroad. |
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The most important of these was the Swynnerton Plan, which was used to both reward loyalists and punish Mau Mau. |
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Their numbers were swelled by the arrival of thousands of loyalists of Scottish origin both during and after the American Revolution. |
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The war was not going well for the loyalists and the new regency government considered retreating to Ireland. |
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In the 1780s with the end of the American Revolutionary War, hundreds of black loyalists from America were resettled in Britain. |
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From March to July 2015, the Battle of Aden raged between Houthis and loyalists to President Hadi. |
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The emperor dispatched some of his most trusted officers to reveal or destroy secret societies, bandits, and loyalists to his other relatives. |
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Although the sea ban left the Ming army free to extirpate the remaining Yuan loyalists and secure China's borders, it tied up local resources. |
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The action would allow the British to focus on rallying the support of loyalists in the southerly states. |
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Many Church of England clergy remained loyalists as they took their two ordination oaths very seriously. |
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There were 500 to 1000 black loyalists who were held as slaves by patriots, escaped to British lines and joined the British army. |
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Nearly all black loyalists left for Nova Scotia, Florida, or England, where they could remain free. |
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In a speech to Labour activists, Mr Hain laughed off criticism levelled at him by loyalists and republicans. |
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Inhabitants of the state endured being invaded by English forces and an ongoing civil war between loyalists and partisans that devastated the backcountry. |
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He killed most of the Jianwen Emperor's palace servants, tortured many of his nephew's loyalists to death, killed or by other means badly treated their relatives. |
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People espousing unionist beliefs are sometimes referred to as loyalists. |
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The most notable of atrocities carried out by loyalists during this time was the Dublin and Monaghan bombings in which 34 people died, mainly in Dublin itself. |
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In March and April 1969, loyalists bombed water and electricity installations in Northern Ireland, blaming them on the dormant IRA and elements of the civil rights movement. |
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In late November, O'Neill promised the civil rights movement some concessions, but these were seen as too little by nationalists and too much by loyalists. |
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Because of the lack of police reaction to the attacks, nationalists saw the RUC, almost wholly Protestant, as backing the loyalists and allowing the attacks to occur. |
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The bill was defeated amid lobbying by company loyalists and accusations of nepotism in the bill's recommendations for the appointment of councillors. |
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The proposed agreement soon began to unravel amid claims from some loyalists that it was too generous towards the rebels, particularly the clergy who had joined the rebellion. |
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Through Nelson, FRU helped loyalists target people for assassination. |
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The Germans living west of the Rhine River rose against him, perhaps encouraged by Roman loyalists, and those living east of the river crossed into Gaul. |
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In Irbid, 80 kilometers north of the capital, police used teargas to end clashes between proreform demonstrators and government loyalists, witnesses said. |
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Gaddafi loyalists showed they were still a threat by launching an attack on Sunday on the desert oasis town of Ghadames, on the border with Algeria, NTC officials said. |
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Deferring to the need for cabinet members to have expertise, they installed, exclusively, ideologically compatible Reagan loyalists into subcabinet spoils positions. |
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A major bomb-making factory was found on a housing estate as police in Northern Ireland stepped up their offensive to keep feuding loyalists apart. |
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He gave loyalists a voice and influence at the highest level and he was crucial in taking loyalism along the often difficult path to a lasting peace. |
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Three years later, Yuan marines crushed the last of the Song loyalists. |
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Of the approximately three hundred clergy in the Church of England in America between 1776 and 1783, over 80 percent in New England, New York, and New Jersey were loyalists. |
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