However, it remained poor and neglected, particularly in contrast with its western, French neighbor Saint-Domingue, which became the wealthiest colony in the New World and had half a million inhabitants.

In the 14th century, the county of Flanders reached its maximum size, and became the wealthiest part of the Seventeen Provinces.

Arndt, a trader, arrived in town just before an epidemic of the Black Death plague and became one of the city's wealthiest men by purchasing the property of families who fled the epidemic.

Thanks to Karl, the Wittgensteins became the second wealthiest family in the Habsburg Empire, behind only the Rothschilds.

After Burma was conquered by British, it became the wealthiest country in Southeast Asia.

Using an extensive network of cities and settlements in the province of Mawarannahr ( a name given the region after the Arab conquest ) in Uzbekistan and farther east in what is today China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the Soghdian intermediaries became the wealthiest of these Iranian merchants.

The Kingdom of Sicily became one of the wealthiest states in Europe, as wealthy as the fellow Norman state, the Kingdom of England.

Dunedin became the wealthiest city in the country and many in the South Island resented financing the North Island ’ s wars.

Dunedin became the wealthiest city in the country and many in the South Island resented financing the North Island ’ s wars.

Richard of York already had the Mortimer and Cambridge claims to the English throne ; once he inherited the March, he also became the wealthiest and most powerful noble in England, second only to the King himself.

Richard's revenues from Cornwall provided him with great wealth, and he became one of the wealthiest men in Europe.

In 1804, Robertson sold his furnace to Montgomery Bell, who became one of the state's wealthiest capitalists and industrialists.

Rogers amassed a great fortune, estimated at over $ 100 million, and became one of the wealthiest men in the United States.

Its county seat of Warrenton became a center of commerce and was one of the wealthiest towns in the state from 1840 to 1860.

Originally part of Bangor, Maine, it became a separate town in 1853 because Gen. Veazie, its wealthiest citizen, thought Bangor's property taxes were too high.

As subdivisions of large homes continued to be constructed well into the 1990s, Sudbury became one of the wealthiest towns in Massachusetts.

Howard who eventually became one of the wealthiest blacks in the state.

In the 1850s, the town became a busy center of commerce when the railroad was built to better connect the commodities of the rich tobacco and cotton fields to markets ; it became the wealthiest town in North Carolina of the time.

He became within a few years, not only a leading business man, but the wealthiest citizen of the Cowanesque valley, maintaining at the same time a well-deserved reputation for liberality, enterprise, and public spirit.

Rogers amassed a great fortune, estimated at over $ 100 million, and became one of the wealthiest men in the United States.

Rievaulx Abbey became one of the greatest and wealthiest in England, with 140 monks and many more lay brothers, receiving grants of land totalling 6, 000 acres ( 24 km² ) and establishing daughter houses in England and Scotland.

Mellon eventually became one of the wealthiest people in the United States.

This clique became and remains the wealthiest, most powerful and most influential class in Kenya to date, and has held the country back, blocking reform and change, and the emergence of fresh progressive leadership, in its manoeuvres to maintain its power and wealth.

Mike kept walking and got within arm's reach before the man became suspicious and straightened from his lax slouch.

so Cyrus Adler became interested in her friend Racie Friedenwald, and Joe Jastrow -- the only young man who when he wrote had the temerity to address her as Henrietta, and signed himself Joe -- fell in love with pretty sister Rachel.

Adams contended that once such a special class had been created it became a vested interest and sought to maintain itself by assuming exclusive control over the relationships between God and man.

Eventually it became clear to me, partly with the aid of another schizophrenic patient who could point out my condescension to me somewhat more directly, that this man, with his condescending, `` You're welcome '', was very accurately personifying an element of obnoxious condescension which had been present in my own demeanor, over these months, on each of these occasions when I had bid him good-bye with the consoling note, each time, that the healing Christ would be stooping to dispense this succor to the poor sufferer again on the morrow.

In lieu of the amanuensis to the blind or illiterate bard, one may conceive of a man who heard a vast store of oral poetry recited, and became intimately familiar with the established aids to poetizing, and himself wrote his own compositions or his edition of the compositions of the past.

One such wife, Dr. Linden says, became disgusted with her weak husband and flurried through a series of extramarital affairs in the hope of finding a stronger man.

Overnight he became the most available man in Washington.

These conditions man did not keep, and thus he became mortal ; ;

According to LDS Doctrine, Michael the Archangel became the first man on earth, Adam, to experience his mortality.

She called him, " an intelligent, philosophic, modest man " and found his views on education " very attractive ". Locals in Cheshire were less supportive and became suspicious of his methods.

With this title and its lands, he became the most powerful man in Portugal and one of the richest men in Europe.

As a young man, Abu Bakr became a cloth merchant and he traveled extensively in Arabia and neighboring lands in the Middle East, through which he gained both wealth and experience.

Amongst those who patronized the old man was the patrician family Falier of Venice, and by this means young Canova was first introduced to the senator of that name, who afterwards became his most zealous patron.

In the 1520s he returned to Regensburg as a wealthy man, and became a member of the city's council.

In Troezen, Theseus grew up and became a brave young man.

The Haworth Art Gallery in Accrington contains an outstanding collection of Tiffany glassware presented to the town by Joseph Briggs, an Accrington man who had joined Tiffany ’ s in the late 19th century and eventually became art director and assistant manager.

" The Son of God became man so that we might become God.

In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage.

* He became the first man to score seven centuries in eight first-class innings, the first being the record 375 against England and the last being the record 501 not out against Durham.

At the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux, Jack Brabham became the first man to win a Formula One world championship race in a car bearing his own name.

In 1934, the McDaniel family moved to the largely black South Side area of Chicago, where the young man dropped the name Otha and became known as Ellas McDaniel, until his musical ambitions demanded that he take on a more catchy identity.

In 1899, Mile-a-Minute Murphy became the first man to ride his bicycle a mile in under a minute, which he did by drafting a locomotive at New York's Long Island.

Cicero expressed extreme pride not only in being a novus homo (" new man "; comparable to a " self-made man ") who became consul even though none of his ancestors had ever served as a consul, but also in having become consul " in his year ".

Barnard's younger brother Marius, who also studied medicine, eventually became Barnard's right-hand man at the department of Cardiac Surgery.