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The Romanes used to say, that their Generall had Pacified such a Province, that is to say, in English, Conquered it; and that the
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633
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Western Provinces, known as the Conquered Provinces, were taken from the Marâthâs in 1803-5.
Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official William Sleeman 1822
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The evocative phrase "Conquered Into liberty" arises from a 1774 letter sent by the Continental Congress to the French Canadians: The British had defeated France in Quebec 15 years earlier, and the American colonists suggested that the French Canadians could consider themselves "conquered into liberty" if they would rise up against King George III, joining "the bright and strong chain of union" with the American colonies.
The Great Warpath Andrew Roberts 2011
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One by one, victims and perpetrators, several who had been introduced as midlevel functionaries in "Conquered City," are sacrificed to Stalin's ideological machinery on absurd and ludicrous evidence.
The Revolutionary Novelist Tess Lewis 2011
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His two finest, "Conquered City" (198 pages, $14.95) and "The Case of Comrade Tulayev" (362 pages, $14.95) , track the spread of rot in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution and the beginnings of a regime of terror.
The Revolutionary Novelist Tess Lewis 2011
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Conquered peoples had value only in so far as a Roman deemed it so.
Matt J. Rossano: The Christian Revolution Matt J. Rossano 2011
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Conquered and colonized, Russians lost touch with the outside world for more than two centuries.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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"Conquered City" 1932 chronicles a single year, from the winter of 1919, when St. Petersburg was under siege from anti-revolutionary armies, to the Red Army's improbable victory in 1920.
The Revolutionary Novelist Tess Lewis 2011
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Conquered peoples had value only in so far as a Roman deemed it so.
Matt J. Rossano: The Christian Revolution Matt J. Rossano 2011
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Nonetheless, here are the insects, spiders, and other horrors, featured in my book "Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects," you should most fear on your summer vacation:
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