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A rebellion breaks out, the Englishmen gaining support for Ignosi by taking advantage of their foreknowledge of a solar eclipse to claim that they will black out the sun as proof of Ignosi's claim.

Englishmen and return
It was during Hisamitsu's return from a stay in Edo that a group of his retainers attacked a riding party of Englishmen, precipitating the Namamugi Incident.
At this, Wowinchopunk released the two Englishmen, but the English only released one Paspahegh, keeping the rest until chief Powhatan sent a gift of corn along with his own young daughter, Pocahontas, to plead for their return.

Englishmen and him
:" The proudest possession of Lord Darnley is an earthenware urn containing the ashes which were presented to him by Melbourne residents when he captained the Englishmen in 1882.
According to Stephen Suleyman Schwartz, in his book " The Two Faces of Islam ", “ some say that during this vagabondage Ibn Abdul Wahhab came into contact with certain Englishmen who encouraged him to personal ambition as well as to a critical attitude about Islam .” Specifically, Mir ’ at al Harramin, a Turkish work by Ayyub Sabri Pasha, written in 1888, states that in Basra, Abdul Wahhab had come into contact with a British spy by the name of Hempher, who “ inspired in him the tricks and lies that he had learned from the British Ministry of the Commonwealth .”
Forster's attitude brought him into conflict with people of different nations he encountered and made him welcome nowhere, as he was too revolutionary and antinational for Germans, proud and opposing in his dealings with Englishmen, too unconcerned about Polish science for Poles, and too insignificant politically and ignored while in France.
Politely invited by two other officers to join the police chief and produce passports, Arthur replied, " Tell him that we are Englishmen and are not accustomed to being treated in this way.
Edward confiscated the Stone of Destiny – the Scottish coronation stoneand brought it to Westminster, deposed Balliol and placed him in the Tower of London, and installed Englishmen to govern the country.
The Life of Edward the Confessor, written fifty years later, claimed that when Emma was pregnant with him, all Englishmen promised that if the child was a boy they would accept him as king.
It was Smith who acted as an agent for Canaletto, first in requesting paintings of Venice from the painter in the early 1720s and helping him to sell his paintings to other Englishmen.
A merry comedy entitled Englishmen for My Money, or A Woman will have her Will ( 1598 ) is ascribed to his sole authorship, and Fleay credits him with a considerable share in Patient Grissel ( 1599 ).
They are much incensed and provoked against the English, and about eight months ago slew three Englishmen, and two more hardly escaped by flight to Monchiggon ; they were Sir Ferdinando Gorges his men, as this savage told us, as he did likewise of the huggery, that is, fight, that our discoverers had with the Nausets, and of our tools that were taken out of the woods, which we willed him should be brought again, otherwise, we would right ourselves.
" His appointment makes him one of the most senior Englishmen to work for FIFA.
Contemporaries thought very highly of Fletcher's integrity, but he was also seen as impetuous, some Englishmen regarded him as a violent, ingenious fanatic.
They call him derogatory names in Afrikaans such as " pisskop " ( piss head ) and " rooinek " ( redneck ), a term used for Englishmen during the Boer War ( fought between the British and the Boers, or Afrikaners ).
While Byrd considered himself an Englishman, the fact that he was born in the colonies kept other true Englishmen from considering him as such.
The Englishmen laugh at him and retrieve their money, but leave Blunt “ to be cozened ” ( cheated ).
However, he did manage to make 24 appearances for the U21s in total, making him one of the ten most-capped Englishmen at this level.
Stephen vows to hate all white Englishmen after he discovers that they enslaved his mother, but when the gentleman shows him the hanging of the white Vinculus, he weeps.
In total, Neal won eight First Divisions, four League Cups, five FA Charity Shields, four European Cups, one UEFA Cup and one UEFA Super Cup during his eleven years at Liverpool, making him one of the most successful Englishmen ever to play the game.
During the last twenty years of his life he painted many distinguished Englishmen who came to Edinburgh to sit to him.
Harvey was appointed to captain an Australian XI in a warm-up match against the touring Englishmen, indicating that the selectors were considering him for the Test captaincy.
After British and Prussian forces arrived to succeed him, his unit proceeded to take Louvain and Mechelen, liberating 600 imprisoned Englishmen on the way.
At the beginning, the stated goal was “ To play together like Englishmen, to have a color and a name, and to beat the other non Turkish teams ” according to him.

Englishmen and they
So many Englishmen and Gascons came to that part, that perforce they opened the king's battle, so that the Frenchmen were so mingled among their enemies that sometime there was five men upon one gentleman.
That said, the situation in England was far worse than in Scandinavia, France and Prussia: as late as 1841, 33 % of all Englishmen and 44 % of Englishwomen signed marriage certificates with their mark as they were unable to write ( government-financed public education was not available in England until 1870 and, even then, on a limited basis ).
Mark Thompson wrote that, apart from determining the succession, the English Bill of Rights did " little more than set forth certain points of existing laws and simply secured to Englishmen the rights of which they were already posessed.
Inspired by the Spanish riches from colonies founded upon the conquest of the Aztecs, Incas, and other large Native American populations in the sixteenth century, the first Englishmen to settle permanently in America hoped for some of the same rich discoveries when they established their first permanent settlement in Jamestown, Virginia.
The fact that he became identified with the attempts to make peace added to his unpopularity at a period when the majority of Englishmen believed victory would be in their grasp if the French could be roundly defeated as they had been in the 1350s.
" The rebels may have been articulating a grievance against the 1547 Act for the Punishment of Vagabonds, which made it legal to enslave a discharged servant who did not find a new master withing three days, though they may also have been calling for the manumission of the thousands of Englishmen and women who were serfs.
Rebellious women were a concern for Englishmen because they posed a threat to the patriarchal model of a good household upon which Elizabethan society was built.
Englishmen brought with them British machinery from Birmingham in 1794 and designed American improvements in button making which they patented.
Lanfranc accelerated the process of substituting Normans for Englishmen in all preferments of importance ; and although his nominees were usually respectable, it cannot be said that all of them were better than the men whom they superseded.
In addition protesting to the Stamp Act issue, it asserted that colonists possessed all the rights of Englishmen, and that since they had no voting rights over Parliament, Parliament could not represent the colonists.
It is significant that in addition to simply arguing for their rights as Englishmen, the congress also asserted that they had certain natural rights solely because they were human beings.
Ongoing political tensions between Great Britain and the thirteen colonies reached a crisis in 1774 when the British placed the province of Massachusetts under martial law after the Patriots protested taxes they regarded as a violation of their constitutional rights as Englishmen.
Although the Englishmen merely defeated the opposition presented, they further damaged the ACB's cause by playing slow, grinding cricket.
As Englishmen, they argued, taxation without representation was unacceptable.
After holding the Englishmen as prisoners, they returned Morris and his companions to London in 1746.
What Englishmen did know, however, was that what they called " trade " was on the rise.
The proceedings of the late parliament were so fair, so prudent, so necessary, and so advantageous to the nation, to the protestant interest in general, and in particular to the church of England, that all true Englishmen must needs acknowledge they owe to the then representatives of the nation, their privileges, their liberties, their lives, their religion, their present and future security from popery, slavery, and arbitrary power, had they done nothing else but enacted the rights and liberties of the subject, and settling the succession of the crown.
Realising what is about to happen, Holly shoots several of the Armahagger, killing Mahomed in the process ; in the ensuing struggle Leo is gravely wounded, but the three Englishmen are saved when Billali returns in the nick of time and declares that they are under the protection of She.

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