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The island quickly recovered and tourism remains the main industry ; construction continues on the island at a rapid rate, in spite of facing other hardships such as hurricanes like Fran and Floyd, and being cut off from the mainland for a short time after a barge destroyed the island's original pontoon bridge.
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They quickly stormed the island and attacked Belgica Castle at sunrise.
It was now possible for plantations all over this large island to have their sugar shipped quickly and easily.
Thinking to regain control on the island that had produced so much wealth, Napoleon sent more than 20, 000 troops beginning in 1802 to quell the slave revolt in Saint-Domingue, which quickly escalated into war for independence.
When he heard that there was a Buddhist teacher on the rocky island of Putuo he quickly journeyed there to learn.
The island quickly grew very profitable from tobacco trading, and was able to secure prime investment from Britain.
Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States quickly resolved to end the hostilities ; with the partitioning of the island chain at the Tripartite Convention of 1899.
Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States quickly resolved to end the hostilities ; with the partitioning of the island chain at the Tripartite Convention of 1899.
The semblance of order imposed by Ralph and Simon quickly deteriorates as the majority of the boys turn idle and begin to develop paranoias about the island, referring to a supposed monster, the " beast ", which dwells nearby.
When he and the others arrive on the island, Ralph quickly becomes the chief of the group, not by any harsh, overt or physical action, but by being elected.
Rule of the island was passed from the Normans to the Hohenstaufen Kings, followed by the Angevins, and then the Aragonese, until Carlos I, the Aragonese King became the Spanish King, and then quickly was crowned Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
Around 3, 000 BC, the Neolithic Dapenkeng culture ( named after a site in Taibei county ) abruptly appeared and quickly spread around the coast of the island.
The arrival of people, along with a suite of other introduced species such as rats, pigs and cats, quickly spelt the end for this species and all the other island forms that have become extinct.
The Kuomintang viewed Taiwan primarily as a base to retake mainland China and quickly tried to subdue potential political opposition on the island.
The undemanding rose met ideal conditions on Sylt and spread so quickly that it is now a common sight on the island.
Richard, Étienne, and Françoise manage to incorporate themselves into the island community and are quickly accepted because they tell the community about Daffy and his death back on the Thai mainland.
According to the Greek mythological story even with her speed she quickly ran out of energy and crash-landed on an island in the middle of the ocean and begged for mercy from the Gods.
Having scared the horses onto the high ground of a peninsula, Heracles quickly dug a trench through the peninsula, filling it with water, thus making it an island.
Mixed formations of men quickly became the norm for European infantrymen, with many, but not all, seeking to imitate the Tercio ; in England, a combination off billmen, longbowmen, and men-at-arms remained the norm, though this changed when the supply of yew on the island dwindled.
The island quickly recovered and towns of Long Beach and Yaupon Beach were incorporated in 1955.
For if he should still persist in that wicked behaviour, be sure to inform us quickly, that we may to princes and all people dwelling in the island of Britain, exhorting them to expel him from his most wicked rule and procure the safety of his soul.
The trading post of “ Ville-Marie ”, established on the current island of Montreal, quickly became the economic hub for the French fur trade.
Over a thousand Americans quickly seized the entire island, taking hundreds of military and civilian prisoners, especially Cubans.
Yayoi culture quickly spread to the main island of Honshū mixing with native Jōmon culture.
In 426 BCE, Athens had prosecuted a brief perfunctory operation on the island but had withdrawn quickly because they were at the time involved in open conflict with Sparta.
Its coastal position, the most productive on the island, quickly permitted Funchal to develop an urban core and surpass the populations of other settlements, which slowly gravitated around it.
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In another study of ancient DNA published by the same authors in 2011, both the control and coding regions of mitochondrial DNA ( mtDNA ) recovered from Jomon skeletons excavated from the northernmost island of Japan, Hokkaido, were analyzed in detail, and 54 mtDNAs were confidently assigned to relevant haplogroups.
After a period of Vandal rule, Syracuse and the island was recovered by Belisarius for the Byzantine Empire ( 31 December 535 ).
The Byzantines recovered control over the island for short periods thereafter, but the status quo was always restored.
After it was assigned to Emperor Charles VI in 1714, Philip V of Spain briefly recovered the island in 1717, but in 1720 the European powers assigned Sicily to Charles VI and Sardinia to the House of Savoy, so Vittorio Amedeo II became the King of Sardinia.
The island of Cyprus was recovered, but retained for only seven years.
During the Fifth Ottoman-Venetian War, following a major victory over the Ottoman fleet, the Venetians captured the island again on 20 August 1656, but the Ottomans recovered it barely a year later, on 31 August 1657, after a siege of 36 days.
Whilst in Egypt, abandoned by Gabrielle, Lestat sleeps in the ground after being burned by the sun, and is recovered by Marius who takes him to his Mediterranean island.
The Papacy, favouring a prince who had recovered Sicily from Greeks and Muslims, in 1098 granted Roger and his heirs the Apostolic Legateship of the island.
When Silver escapes at the end of the novel, he takes " three or four hundred guineas " of the treasure with him, thus becoming one of only two former members of Captain Flint's crew to get his hands on a portion of the recovered treasure ; a separate cache of bar silver is apparently left on the island.
In another study of ancient DNA published by the same authors in 2011, both the control and coding regions of mitochondrial DNA ( mtDNA ) recovered from Jomon skeletons excavated from the northernmost island of Japan, Hokkaido, were analyzed in detail, and 54 mtDNAs were confidently assigned to relevant haplogroups.
After spending 10 weeks abed, a recovered von Ascheberg returned to the battlefield in time to be in charge of the conquest of the island Møn in May 1659.
Eventually with the help of Venice, the Kingdom recovered Famagusta but by then it was too late and in any event, the Venetians had their own designs on the island.
An old legend states that people who die far out at sea, their bodies never recovered, spend eternity on the island Utrøst – which can only occasionally be found by mortals.
Soubise's chief exploit was a singularly bold and well-conducted attack ( in 1625 ) on the Royalist fleet in the river Blavet ( which included the cutting of a boom in the face of superior numbers ) and the occupation of the islands of Ré and Oléron in 1625, leading to the Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré ( 1625 ) in which Louis XIII recovered the island of Ré.
And burning some forty or fifty houses with several boats and killing seven men of the said island, they recovered their skiff.
The largest Native cemetery in New England is located on the island ; and artifacts spanning a three-thousand year period have been recovered from a site near the elementary school.
Around 1600, four of these along the West coast had been again recovered, but Wieringen, to the south-east of Texel, remained an island up to the 20th century.
Finally, in 1909 it recovered the condition of a State, and in 1948 it annexed the island of Cubagua.
The island, along with the mainland, soon recovered.
A large ceremonial mask was recovered in 1836 from a neighbouring island following his rescue and that of young William D ’ Oyley, the only other survivor of the Charles Eaton, and their return to Sydney.
A third codebook was recovered following the sinking of German destroyer SMS S119 in a battle off Texel island.
Borchgrevink visited the island in June, when the main volcanic activity had subsided, and found the mountain " perfectly quiet ", and the islanders recovered from their panic.
In 1802 he negotiated the Treaty of Amiens with Great Britain ; Spain ceded the island of Trinidad to Britain but recovered Minorca.
The Romans occupied the island as the Fasti Triumphales record in 255 BC, lost it again the next year, and recovered it in 217 BC.
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