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They were bloodily destroyed or sent into Siberian slavery by Communist troops led in person by the Commissar of War, Leon Trotsky, and by Marshal Tukhachevsky, one of whom was later assassinated, the other executed, by the regime they then saved.
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They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.
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They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.
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They revolted in several localities, and at Bronte, on August 4, 1860, Garibaldi's friend Nino Bixio bloodily repressed one of these revolts with two battalions of Redshirts.
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Lautner, for his part, `` belonged to the present-day race of small artists, who do not demand the utmost of themselves '', and the bitter description of the type includes such epithets as `` wretched little poseurs '', the devastating indictment `` they do not know how to be wretched decently and in order '', and the somewhat extreme prophecy, so far not fulfilled: `` They will be destroyed ''.
They destroyed a trading house and pillaged the goods, and harassed French shipping on the Mississippi.
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They destroyed Camulodunum ( modern Colchester ), earlier the capital of the Trinovantes, but then a colonia ( a settlement for discharged Roman soldiers ) and the site of a temple to the former Emperor Claudius, which was built and maintained at local expense.
They accordingly built a fleet at Naupactus, but before they set sail, Aristodemus was struck by lightning ( or shot by Apollo ) and the fleet destroyed, because one of the Heracleidae had slain an Acarnanian soothsayer.
They organized the Women in Peacebuilding Network ( WIPNET ), and issued a statement of intent: " In the past we were silent, but after being killed, raped, dehumanized, and infected with diseases, and watching our children and families destroyed, war has taught us that the future lies in saying NO to violence and YES to peace!
They did not encounter any significant resistance save for some bridges destroyed and some land mines, since the majority of the Luxembourgish Volunteer Corps stayed in their barracks.
They have an advanced culture, but the human explorers are greeted with incomprehension and eventually the Martian civilisation is destroyed by human disease.
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They claim that the underlying economic motivation eroded any claims of moral superiority, leaving the hostile acts in ( Korea, Hungary, Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Nicaragua ) to stand on their own in justifying the human lives the conflicts had destroyed.
They point out that Noah did not pray to God on behalf of those about to be destroyed, as Abraham prayed for the wicked of Sodom and Gomorrah.
They drew further criticism when they destroyed the Buddhas of Bamyan, historical statues nearly 1500 years old, because the buddhas were considered idols.
They broke the Crusader blockade, destroyed most of their ships, and pursued and captured those who anchored and fled into the desert.
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They captured and destroyed Arkona, the Wendish temple fortress, and tore down the statue of the Wendish god, Svantevit.
They were displayed in the State-sponsored exhibit " Degenerate Art ", and then destroyed ( along with works by Paul Klee, Franz Marc and other modern artists ).
They were intercepted and destroyed by General William Henry Harrison at the Battle of the Thames in October 1813.
They destroyed the station and fought their way to the water where they hid from patrolling enemy forces.
They will germinate within a day or two with the right environmental conditions, and then the vegetative cells can be straightforwardly destroyed.
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