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Their arms have extended this kind of conqueft even to the gates of Dehli.
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The Mindanaos are treacherous; the Caragos, valiant i the Dapitans, brave and con - iiderate: thefe laft gave great afliiftance to the Spaniards on effeding their conqueft of the ifland.
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Death mourns his loft conqueft, no terrors in - spiring,
The lay of Corneelis: in three cantos, by an officer [T.W. Taylor] who was present at the storm ... Thomas William Taylor 1812
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He was appomted general of the expedition to the Philippines by the viceroy of New Spain under fpecial authority from Phihp II. and failed to make the conqueft of them from the Port de la Natividad, now called Acapulco, on the 2iil of September 1564* Philip empowered the
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And upon their fate after the Norman conqueft, it is further faid, V that thefe villains belonging principally to lords of manors, were either annexed to the manor or land, or to the perfon of the lord, and transferable by deed from one owner to another.
Travels in Hungary, with a short account of Vienna in the year 1793 1797
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This city was the refidence of the emperor Aurungzebe, during his conqueft of the Deccan and the Cai-natic.
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When, at length, the fiercenefs of party was quieted, and the commonwealth overturned by the fuperiof addrefs and good fortune of Augiiftus; the Emperor, fully employed in reconciling the minds of the Romans to this new fpecies of domination, had neither time nor inclination to attend to the conqueft of a diflant nation, barbarous and wild, and cut off as it were from all the habitable wprld.?
An Illustration of the Roman Antiquities Discovered at Bath 1797
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On the acceflion of a branch of the home of Bourbon to the Spanifti monar - chy, it w'ls ftipulated, in 1714, that the Spanifh Netherlands fhould return to the German branch of the houfe of Aultria; but fome coniidcrable parts wercobtainud by conqueft or celHon, by the French atid Dutch.
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Henry, allured by fo mag - nificent a prefent, without reflecting on the conie - quences, without confulting either with his brother or the parliament, accepted of the infidious - propo - fal; and gave the pope unlimited credit to expend whatever fums he thought neceiTary for completing the conqueft of Sicily.
The history of England : from the invasion iof Julius Cæsar to the revolution in 1688 ... 1796
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The convention orders, that the news of the conqueft of La Vendee be fent to all the departments.
Historical epochs of the French Revolution, Goudemetz, H 1796
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