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  • Three days later, mounted on my stately gray "Ladrone," I led my little pack-train out of Ashcroft, bound for Teslin Lake, some twelve hundred miles to the Northwest.

    A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900

  • A favorite Rome water-hole of Italy's smelly politicians is aptly named, "Due Ladrone," or two thieves.

    Eric Margolis: Italy's Lover-in-Chief 2009

  • Then several Japanese submarines vanished from the Ladrone archipelago.

    The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

  • He alledged the example of the inhabitants of the Ladrone islands, who never taste any thing that is not cold, and are remarkably healthy.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • By purchase, the Germans secured from Spain the Marianas (Ladrone) and the Palau Islands.

    1887 2001

  • Japan received as mandates from the League of Nations the former German islands in the Pacific north of the equator (Caroline, Marshall, and Marianas (Ladrone) archipelagoes).

    1920, Jan. 10 2001

  • Paterno, the father of Don Pedro, were banished to the Ladrone

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • Under the Treaty of Paris (1898) the Island of Guam (Ladrone group) was ceded by Spain to the United States, together with the Philippine

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • The Ladrone Islands were passed on January 9, 1565, and on the 13th of the following month the Philippines were sighted.

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

  • Moreover, the opportunity was taken to banish to the Ladrone

    The Philippine Islands John Foreman

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