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number and Maratha
The Maratha Chatrapati Sambhaji ordered this form of death for a number of conspirators, including the Maratha official Anaji Datto in the late seventeenth century.
A number of Maratha warriors, including Shivaji's father Shahaji served the various Muslim kingdoms of the day .< ref > Mahrattas, Sikhs and Southern Sultans of India: Their Fight Against Foreign Cite: < i >" Shahji served with distinction and valour under Malik Ambar, the able minister of the Muslim kings of Ahmadnagar.
A number of Maratha gunners who had feigned death when the British advanced over their position re-manned their guns and began to pour cannon fire into the rear of the 74th and Madras infantry.
The Desh region was the birthplace and core of the Maratha Empire, founded by Shivaji in the 17th century, and is home to a number of cities, like Satara and Pune, associated with Maratha history.
The Salve surname is one of a number included in the Satavahana Maratha clan.
Mhow has a sizable number of Marathis as it is part of Indore, the erstwhile state ruled by the Maratha Holkar family.
It was in 1640 that some temples were renovated during the Maratha rule but the number of the temples destroyed is still unknown.
A number of these continue to exist today in the Indian Army ; examples being the Maratha Light Infantry and the Grenadiers, amongst others, in the case of infantry, the Bombay Sappers as engineers and the Poona Horse amongst the cavalry.

number and casualties
It remains the deadliest war in American history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 750, 000 soldiers and an undetermined number of civilian casualties.
It was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War and is often described as the war's turning point.
The total number of French casualties cannot be calculated precisely, so complete was the collapse of the Franco-Bavarian army that day.
Trevelyan estimates Villeroi ’ s casualties at 13, 000, but adds, ‘ his losses by desertion may have doubled that number ’.
By the late 1950s, the once-prosperous port area of downtown Manhattan was occupied by a number of dilapidated shipping piers, casualties of the rise of container shipping which drove sea traffic to Port Elizabeth, New Jersey.
British casualties in the battle were recorded with some accuracy in the immediate aftermath as 218 killed and approximately 677 wounded, although the number of wounded who subsequently died is not known.
It was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War and is often described as the war's turning point.
Although Eugene's forces inflicted double the number of casualties on the French the battle settled little except to deter Vendôme trying an all-out assault on Imperial forces that year, enabling Eugene to hold on south of the Alps.
Although the Romans defeated the Carthaginian fleet and were successful in rescuing its army in Africa, a storm destroyed nearly the entire Roman fleet on the trip home ; the number of casualties in the disaster may have exceeded 90, 000 men.
The exact number of casualties on each side is difficult to determine, due to bias in the historical sources.
The number of casualties and the timing of the terror differed markedly between the Reds and Whites.
These reforms made wars of attrition possible and greatly increased the number of casualties.
Haitian historians have estimated the true number was much higher ; one suggested, " the total number of battle victims and casualties of repression and consequences of the war might have reached, by the end of the pacification period, four or five times that-somewhere in the neighborhood of 15, 000 persons.
To counter this, the Yishuv authorities tried to supply the city with convoys of up to 100 armoured vehicles, but the operation became more and more impractical as the number of casualties in the relief convoys surged.
Faced with mounting international pressure and great number of casualties on both sides, the Soviets withdrew in 1989.
It is the highest number of casualties in any one day during The Troubles.
Compared to other militaries, it has suffered the highest number of casualties in the war.
To the present date, total combined American military casualties of the sixty-five years following the end of World War II — including the Korean and Vietnam Wars — have not exceeded that number.
Recent investigations suggest that the actual number of casualties could be much higher.
An additional 1, 382 government soldiers or policemen were wounded during the same period, with the report estimating that the total number of casualties could reach 2, 500 by the end of the year.
Oscillating battle lines inflicted a high number of civilian casualties and wrought immense destruction.
This process can be ever-changing, dependent upon the situation and must attempt to do the maximum good for the maximum number of casualties.
:" we calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy, who would be killed based on the position of the tower.
The number of wounded was 763, 753 and POWs 145, 104 Other estimates of Ottoman military casualties are as follows: By UK War Office in 1922: Killed 50, 000, died wounds 35, 000, died of disease 240, 000 By US War Dept in 1924: 325, 000 killed and died.

number and is
It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).
It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.
The cyclist, a sufficiently commonplace young fellow, is not named but identified simply as `` Life '' -- that and a license number, which Piepsam uses in addressing him.
Presumably a cocktail party is expected to fulfill the host's desire to get together a number of people who are inadequately acquainted and thereby arrange for bringing the level of acquaintance up to adequacy for future cooperative endeavors.
The number of primitive ideas in systematically-simple theories is reduced to a minimum.
I assume that the number of readers of this anthology who regard themselves as morally perfect is small, and that most readers are willing to consider procedures by which they may gain more insight into themselves and better understanding of others.
That is how the real routine of resistance goes on, and its strength is directly proportionate to the number of insignificant people who can let themselves be taken to pieces, piece by piece, without quitting.
Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.
There are a number of other considerations besides this one but it is for the Congress, not the Department of Justice, to balance these various considerations and make a judgment about legislation.
Nonetheless, although few in number they are a stubborn crew, as tenacious of life as the Hardshell Baptists, which suggests that there is some kind of vital principle embodied in their faith.
For that is the one an increasingly large number of prominent Americans are now proposing.
and it is still very far from certain how valid the party's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable, to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to let the latter be turned into something increasingly like a state farm.
Too bad your number is in the directory ''.
The number of countries thus favorably situated is small, but their peoples constitute over half of the population of the underdeveloped world.
The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.
The Navy, on April 25, announced it is bringing back the carrier Shangri-La from the Mediterranean, increasing to four the number of attack carriers in the vicinity of Cuba.
There is little doubt that the number of those who wish to serve will be far greater than our capacity to absorb them.
Since broadcast frequencies are very limited in number, these objectives are to some extent inconsistent in that not all of them can be fully realized, and to the extent that each is realized, there is a corresponding reduction of the possibilities for fullest achievement of the others.
During nighttime hours, because of the intense skywave propagation then prevailing, no large number of stations can be permitted to operate on one of these channels, if the wide area service for which these frequencies are assigned is to be rendered satisfactorily by the dominant stations which must be relied upon to render it.
In the daytime, on the other hand, since skywave transmission is relatively inefficient, it is possible to assign a substantially larger number of stations on these channels.
Such additional daytime class 2, assignments are appropriate if optimum use is to be made of these frequencies, and the Commission has over the years made a large number of them.

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