In the 14th century, China suffered additional depredations from epidemics of plague.

Increased depredations by privateers from Revolutionary France required the rebirth of the United States Navy to protect the expanding American merchant shipping.

The FARC say they represent the poor people of rural Colombia against the economic depredations of the ruling bourgeoisie ; the political influence of the U. S. in the internal affairs of Colombia ( i. e. Plan Colombia ); neo-imperialism ; the monopolization of natural resources by multinational corporations ; and the repressive violence from Colombian state and paramilitary forces against the civilian population.

This practice stemmed from the fact that many alleged werewolves would be left feeling weak and debilitated after committing depredations.

Alarmed by the depredations of Slavs and Bulgars in Thrace, he builds the Anastasian Wall from the Black Sea to Propontis, across the narrow peninsula near Constantinople ( modern Turkey ).

The task, originally given to Vasco da Gama's father, was finally offered to Vasco by Manuel I on the strength of his record of protecting Portuguese trading stations along the African Gold Coast from depredations by the French.

* With the Rhodian fleet and economy suffering from the depredations of the pirates, Philip begins attacking the lands of Rhodes ' allies in Thrace and around the Sea of Marmara.

* The Carthaginians, prevented by their treaty with Rome from engaging in armed resistance, but equally guaranteed against any loss of territory, appeal to Rome against the depredations of King Masinissa of Numidia.

The genre of the historical novel has also permitted some authors, such as the Polish novelist Bolesław Prus in his sole historical novel, Pharaoh, to distance themselves from their own time and place to gain perspective on society and on the human condition, or to escape the depredations of the censor.

The landlord could not dispossess his serfs without legal cause and was supposed to protect them from the depredations of robbers or other lords, and he was expected to support them by charity in times of famine.

In response to this, the group was started to provide " self-protection from the depredations of the constabulary " ( the police ).

In 1405, the town was burned by the French allies of Owen Glendower, although in its early history Haverfordwest suffered less than most towns in Wales from such depredations.

In the 9th century, almost all English minsters suffered severely from the depredations of Viking invaders ; and even when a body of clergy continued, any form of regular monastic life typically ceased.

He vowed vengeance upon Portugal, first sending monks from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre as envoys, he threatened Pope Julius II that if he did not check Manuel I of Portugal in his depredations on the Indian Sea, he would destroy all Christian holy places.

The tomb was discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter, underneath the remains of workmen's huts built during the Ramesside Period ; this explains why it was spared from the worst of the tomb depredations of that time.

The homeland of the False Dragon Logain Ablar, Ghealdan suffered a great deal from Logain's depredations.

The exiles from the Low Countries, who called themselves Geuzen ( French gueux, " beggars "), encouraged by the general resistance to his government, fitted out a fleet of privateers, and after strengthening themselves by successful depredations, seized the town of Den Briel ( Brielle ).

His bills would provide compensation for persons who had suffered from the depredations of Indian raids, and would further the process of removing the aborigines from the state.

The Russian conquest of the Khanate of Kazan in the 1550s paved the way further east, which was now free from Tatar depredations ( see Yermak Timofeyevich ).

After the Breaking of the World, the Aiel, like all people, wandered the land looking for safe refuge from the depredations of the insane male channelers ; this brought the Aiel to the Three-fold Land in the first place, and the Aes Sedai who accompanied them.

Following the Mormon capitulation in November 1838, Price was ordered by Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs to Caldwell County with a company of men to protect the Saints from further depredations following their surrender.

Trade between Akan kingdoms and the Mossi kingdoms to the north ( of what is today the northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso border ) flowed through their homeland, subjecting them to Islamic influence, and to the depredations of these more powerful neighbors.

* Piyahgonte ( Pi-yah-gon-te, Yavapai-Tonto-Apache leader in the 1860s and 1870s, with his band of about 75 people he was living along both sides of the upper East Verde River north to the Mogollon Rim, he was believed to be responsible for the most of the depredations around Prescott )

Monastic chroniclers often deplore depredations made by foreign armies and sometimes even those of their own rulers but some Scots forces were going beyond normal Norman ' harrying ' by systematically carrying off women and children as slaves.

This incident forced the founders of the town to transfer the town sitio to another place, the sitio of “ Salasa “, which is now within the jurisdiction of the barrio of Bayto, perhaps because they feared of further depredations by the savage Negritoes.

Then, as the movement began to wane, the founded yet another pan-Islamic organization, the Anjumna-i Khuddam-i Harmain, to help protect the holy places of Mecca and Medina from the depredations of Ibn Sa ’ ud and his Ahab followers.

Citizens were unable to distinguish between reservation and non-reservation tribes, blaming Comanche and Kiowa depredations on the reservation Indians.

Citizens were unable to distinguish between reservation and non-reservation tribes, blaming Comanche and Kiowa depredations on the reservation Indians.

14, " To acknowledge a long history of official depredations and ill-conceived policies by the Federal Government regarding Indian tribes and offer an apology to all Native Peoples on behalf of the United States.

Word reached the company that the man behind these depredations was Manuel Gonzales, a man with many followers, including a number who were kept in line through fear of him.

In the time of the later Roman Empire bagaudae ( also spelled bacaudae ) were groups of peasant insurgents who emerged during the " Crisis of the Third Century ", and persisted particularly in the less-Romanised areas of Gallia and Hispania, where they were " exposed to the depredations of the late Roman state, and the great landowners and clerics who were its servants ".

In January 1796, David Collins wrote that ' several attempts had been made to ascertain the number of arms in the possession of individuals, as many were feared to be in the hands of those who committed depredations ; the crown recalled between two and three hundred stands of arms, but not 50 stands were accounted for '.

A more fanciful explanation relates to the use of this type of gun by chicken thieves, who would be given away by the sight and smell of a burning match if they had used the earlier matchlock gun in their nocturnal depredations.

In the Batman story " Tulpa ", an American national of Tibetan heritage embodies his own hatred and rage in the form of a terrible demon, a tulpa he names and gives the shape of Mahakala, to defend him from the depredations of a gang of criminals who extort him.

In it he proclaims the depredations of the " Danes " ( who were, at that point, primarily Norwegian invaders ) a scourge from God to lash the English for their sins.

It is this group of Ktunaxa who suffered greatly partly because of the depredations of the Blackfoot, and partly because of smallpox.

These encounters emanated from the depredations of the moros who frequently pillaged and plundered the town.

As John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland, a British diplomat in Berlin, reported on 6 April 1848, " great excesses had been committed by armed bands of Poles, headed by some of the Nobles and Refugees, who have pillaged and set fire to country seats and farm houses and rendered themselves guilty of other depredations which the Government will endeavour to repress by moveable columns of Troops ".

Scully is the author of Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy ( 2002 ), described by Natalie Angier in a book review published in The New York Times ( October 27, 2002 ) as a " horrible, wonderful, important book .... because the author, an avowed conservative Republican and former speechwriter for George W. Bush, is an unexpected defender of the animals against the depredations of profit driven corporations, swaggering, gun-loving hunters, proponents of renewed ' harvesting ' of whales and elephants and others who insist that all of nature is humanity's romper room, to play with, rearrange, and plunder at will.

After the Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado in November 1864, depredations by Cheyenne, Arapahoe and Sioux increased along the Oregon Trail and the Bozeman Trail, which was then closed to civilian traffic.

This protected the rest of the Rasputin line from the depredations of Sinister as at some point Mikhail would have been the sole surviving Rasputin, which would then trap his ancestor in the dark zone.