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  • Tanaghrisson would join the English, and with their backing reestablish himself as a power on the Ohio, or at least resume being an Iroquois half-king there.53

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Tanaghrisson would join the English, and with their backing reestablish himself as a power on the Ohio, or at least resume being an Iroquois half-king there.53

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Tanaghrisson would join the English, and with their backing reestablish himself as a power on the Ohio, or at least resume being an Iroquois half-king there.53

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Tanaghrisson would join the English, and with their backing reestablish himself as a power on the Ohio, or at least resume being an Iroquois half-king there.53

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Here they met to celebrate the green-corn dance and their other national ceremonials; and here the king and half-king and the princes and head-men of the various towns consulted together on important occasions, such as making peace or declaring war.

    Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

  • Fully appreciating his worth the emperor in calling him to the command of the army of the Caucasus, invested him with such extraordinary powers as procured for him among the Circassians the title of "the Russian half-king."

    Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia John Milton Mackie

  • Other wigwams as imposing as that of Nancy Ward, and not far from the council-house, were the habitations of the head-king Oconostota, the half-king Atta-Culla-Culla, and the prince of Echota, Savanuca, otherwise called the Raven.

    Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

  • Fifteen years before, his life had been saved at the Fort Loudon massacre by Atta-Culla-Culla, and a friendship had then been contracted between them which now secured the influence of the half-king in plunging the Cherokees into hostilities with the settlers.

    Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

  • Her father was an English officer named Ward, but her mother was of the "blood royal," a sister of the reigning half-king Atta-Culla-Culla.

    Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

  • Demaratus, the outlawed “half-king” of Sparta, and the sons of Hippias, late tyrant of Athens.

    A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903

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