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survivors and party
Both Barnard and the survivors from the Isabella had harboured concern the other party was Spanish and were relieved to discover their respective nationalities.
Barnard dined with the Isabella survivors that evening and finding that the British party were unaware of the War of 1812 informed the survivors that technically they were at war with each other.
The republican survivors of the Rising, under Éamon de Valera, infiltrated and took over Sinn Féin in 1917 and committed the party to founding an independent republic.
* July – In an attempt to rescue survivors of the Vergulde Draeck, a search party is sent ashore, in Goede Hoops boat, which smashes against rocks and sinks: 8 sailors drown ; 3 more disappear ashore.
Herbert, allegedly fearing that they might scuttle her, ordered the survivors to be shot in the water and sent a boarding party to kill all who had made it aboard.
Like many Rising survivors, he joined Sinn Féin, a small separatist party that was wrongly blamed by the government for the Easter Rising.
In the aftermath of the Rising, survivors led by Éamon de Valera took over the party and used it as a vehicle to struggle for the establishment of an Irish republic.
Though regarded in politics as one of Fine Gael's " survivors ", who held onto his seat amid major boundary changes, constituency changes and by attracting working class votes in a party whose appeal was primarily middle class, Mitchell lost his Dublin Central seat at the 2002 general election.
Fenwick was wounded in the face by a pistol shot and the other survivors of his party were forced to surrender.
They also rescued Lieutenant Colonel Fenwick and other survivors from his party, but did not attempt to drive Dennis from his position near Vrooman's Point.
Roger Fife and Erika Spotswood were attendees at the Marchioness party and were amongst the lucky survivors.
The aim of the warriors was to kill all the members of the enemy war party, so that no survivors would remain to undertake revenge.
The Yucatán's indigenous population was first exposed to Europeans after a party of Spanish shipwreck survivors came ashore in 1511.
The Dutch did not send a search party probably because no survivors were able to report the disaster.
A small boat that survived the wreckage then sailed to Batavia for help, but a subsequent search party found none of the survivors.
On the third day of the siege, Lee ( not dressed as a Native American ) approached the Baker-Fancher encirclement under cover of a white flag and convinced the emigrants to surrender their weapons and property to the Mormons in return for safe conduct to nearby Cedar City, whereupon approximately 120 of the Baker-Fancher, party were killed by Mormon militia, leaving only about 17 small children as survivors.
Within several months of their landing near Tampa Bay, Florida on April 15, 1528, he and three other men would be the only survivors of the expedition party of 600 men.
The survivors retreated, joining up with a party from Clondalkin, and a further engagement took place at the turnpike on the Rathcoole road where the enemy was successfully repulsed.
After all the survivors are rescued, there's a big party with speeches about friendship between the French and Germans.
Merlin de Douai recommended the readmission of the survivors of the Girondin party to the Convention, and drew up a law limiting the right of insurrection ; he had also a considerable share in the foreign policy of the French Republic.
He ... placed charges on the enemy aircraft and brought off the survivors after the four Free French members of the party had been betrayed and killed or captured ( from the London Gazette, 5 November 1942, quoted from L. Almonds Windmill, page 49 ).
Sub-Inspector Robert Arthur Johnstone's search party came with the intention of rescuing remaining survivors.
The soldiers stationed at the fort see it as their duty to investigate and search for survivors, and so assemble a rescue party.

survivors and made
The survivors of the sinking of the French ship Méduse in 1816 resorted to cannibalism after four days adrift on a raft and their plight was made famous by Théodore Géricault's painting Raft of the Medusa.
Not much to say about the scientific side though, since the survivors ignore how the creatures are exactly made of.
Concern for their families ' standard of living made men hesitate to enlist ; voluntary enlistment rates went up after the government guaranteed a weekly stipend for life to the survivors of men who were killed or disabled.
Payments were made to the wrong people and real survivors lost out.
Merchantmen armed with guns ( which most were ) fell outside the protection from attack without warning and the requirement to place survivors " in a place of safety " ( for which lifeboats did not qualify ); therefore, it made no difference if she was a troop ship.
No major federal financial assistance was made available to the survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing, but the Murrah Fund set up in the wake of the bombing attracted over $ 300, 000 in federal grants.
The relatives of the victims and the survivors of the blast also made note of it during the service at First United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City.
President George W. Bush made note of the anniversary in a written statement, part of which echoed his remarks on the execution of Timothy McVeigh in 2001: " For the survivors of the crime and for the families of the dead the pain goes on.
On his return, he meets and marries Gudrid, one of the survivors from a ship which has made land at Herjolfsnes after a difficult voyage from Iceland.
The latter was made necessary by the food stores the survivors had begun to collect and stockpile in Bermuda, and which could not be accommodated aboard the Deliverance.
Many survivors and observers suggest that almost anyone with skills over that of the average person was made the target of political “ struggle ” in some way.
One of the survivors of the 1900 Galveston Storm was the Hollywood director King Vidor, who made his directing debut in 1913 with the film Hurricane in Galveston.
In August 1782 he made his name by capturing two English forts ( Prince of Wales Fort and York Fort ) on the coast of Hudson Bay, but allowed the survivors, including Governor Samuel Hearne of Prince of Wales Fort, to sail off to England in exchange for a promise to release French prisoners held in England.
The survivors of Operation Frankton, notable for their daring raid by canoe on the German U-boat base at Bordeaux, made their escape across country to a safe house at Ruffec just north of Angoulême.
Irving went on to assert that the " ship " was due for rough sailing because recently the Soviet government had allowed historians access to " the index cards of all the people who passed through the gates of Auschwitz ", and claimed that this would lead to " a lot of people are not claiming to be Auschwitz survivors anymore " ( Irving's statement about the index cards was incorrect ; what the Soviet government had made available in 1990 were the death books of Auschwitz, recording the weekly death tolls ).
Times reviewer made this point explicitly: " This air age, when death comes too swiftly for heroism or with no survivors to record it, can still turn with wonder to an age before yesterday when a thousand deaths at sea seemed the very worst the world must suffer.
One woman was taken prisoner, and six survivors made it to the fort.
After the battle the Manx survivors made a pact that each man would name their first born son Alma as a permanent reminder down the ages.
The Cossacks then forcibly made the Jewish survivors convert to Christianity.
Jared rides up to tell them they have made radio contact with another group of survivors in France, who wish to speak to their leader.
Only two more survivors will be pulled from the rubble on September 12 and neither of them had made cell phone calls.
The survivors made it to barren Shadwan, where they were rescued the next day by a passing ship, Sumatra.
In the United States, the Social Security Trust Fund is a fund operated by the Social Security Administration into which are paid payroll tax contributions from workers and employers under the Social Security system and out of which benefit payments are made to retirees, survivors, and the disabled, and for general administrative expenses.
The documentary was made by actress Namrata Singh Gujral and will feature breast cancer survivors Olivia Newton-John, Diahann Carroll, Melissa Etheridge, Namrata Singh Gujral, Mumtaz and Jaclyn Smith as well as Daniel Baldwin and Priya Dutt.

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