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Pillaged : psychiatric medications and suicide risk / Ronald William Maris ; foreword by David Healy.
Maris, Ronald W.Date: [2015]- Books
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Colonel Draper's answer, to the Spanish arguments, claiming The Galeon, and refusing Payment of the ransom bills, for preserving Manila from Pillage and Destruction: In a letter addressed To the Earl of Halifax, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State For the Southern Department.
Draper, William, Sir, 1721-1787.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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Regulations of parochial police, combined with the military and naval armaments, to produce the energy and security of the whole nation, Roused from its general Torpor by The Prospects of the Disorder, Pillage, Crimes, and all the Desolation and Horrow which, without such Regulations, may be the Consequences of the Determined and Repeated Efforts of France to Invade Great Britain and Ireland. Submitted to The serious and immediate Consideration of The Legislatures, the Governments, and the People.
Date: 1797- Books
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Laphyrologia: or, a discourse concerning plunder: Wherein the Legality of the same is proved by several Presidents and Arguments, brought from the Laws of God, of Nature, and Nations: As also several Questions are proposed, and Objections solv'd; the whole being rescu'd from Prejudice, and Popular Mistake. With some brief Reflections on St. Mary's and Vigo. By Tho. Heskith, M. A. &c.
Heskith, Thomas.Date: 1703- Books
Books on fire : the tumultuous story of the world's great libraries / Lucien X. Polastron ; translated by Jon E. Graham.
Polastron, Lucien X.Date: 2007- Pictures
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A woman covers her eyes as she steals the teeth of a hanged man. Aquatint with etching by F. Goya, ca. 1797.
Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828.Reference: 18059i- Pictures
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A battle between Romans and the Germans at Trier: the Germans are returning on a bridge over the river Moselle after having attacked the camp of the Romans, when the Romans counterattack. Etching by A. Tempesta after O. van Veen, 1612.
Veen, Otto van, 1556-1629.Date: [1612]Reference: 43021i- Books
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Serious advice and fair warning to all that live upon the sea-coast of England and Wales, particularly to those in the neighbourhood of Weymouth and Portland; addressed to them in a sermon preached the 22d of December, 1754, in the Churches of Fleet and Chickerill, on Occasion of several Shipwrecks at that Time upon the Coast of England. To which are added, some extracts from the several acts of Parliament relating to ships that are stranded on the coast. By Thomas Francklyn, Rector of Langton-Herring, and Vicar of Fleet in the County of Dorset.
Francklyn, Thomas, 1698 or 1699-Date: M.DCC.LVI. [1756]- Books
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An Express just arrived from General Washington. Camp at Cambridge, Oct. 24, 1775. Sir, The inclosed information being of the highest importance, I thought it proper to transmit it to you with all dispatch, I am Sir, your obedient servant, George Washington. On the service of the United Colonies. To the Hon. Nicholas Cooke, Esq; dep. gov. of Rhode-Island, Providence. ...
Date: 1775]- Books
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Dynamic of destruction : culture and mass killing in the First World War / Alan Kramer.
Kramer, Alan, 1954-Date: 2007- Books
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The name of God recorded in his house. A sermon, preached at the desire of the committee, appointed for repairing of the meeting-house, in the First Parish of Gloucester, from the waste of time, and the wanton spoilations of Captain Lynzey in the Falcon sloop of war, immediately after those repairs were complete, on the 13th of September, 1792, by Eli Forbes, A.M. and Pastor of the First Church of Christ in said town. And now made public by general desire. [Three lines from Psalms]
Forbes, Eli, 1726-1804.Date: 1795- Books
History of loot and stolen art from antiquity until the present day / Ivan Lindsay.
Lindsay, Ivan, 1962-Date: 2013- Pictures
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Soldiers pillaging a village. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.
Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.Date: [1730]Reference: 44111i- Pictures
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A boy of nine years is scourged in the marketplace and more atrocities are commited to the followers of the House of Orange by the cavalry. Etching by J. Luyken.
Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712.Reference: 43433i- Archives and manuscripts
M0009361: "The pillaging of Priestley's house during the Birmingham riots"
Date: 06 February 1946- Pictures
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An episode in the novel Niccolò de' Lapi. by Massimo D'Azeglio: a massacre in a church during the Sack of Rome is interrupted by the arrival of the soldier of fortune Fanfulla da Lodi. Wood engraving by A. Centenari and G. Sabbatini after R. Venturi.
Venturi, Roberto, 1846-1883.Date: [1882]Reference: 42921i- Pictures
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Achan is stoned to death for stealing the spoils of the fall of Jericho. Line engraving.
Reference: 18342i- Pictures
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Russian sailors pillaging their own ship with the assistance of Chinese coolies. Colour woodcut by Hōsai, 1904.
Hōsai.Date: 1904Reference: 37647i- Pictures
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Soldiers looting and pillaging an inn in the countryside after they refused to pay for their board and lodging. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.Date: [1730]Reference: 44106i- Pictures
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Soldiers plundering a convent, killing and raping the men and women that resist them. Etching after J. Callot, ca. 1633.
Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.Date: [1730]Reference: 44110i- Books
Sunshine / Melissa Lee-Houghton.
Lee-Houghton, MelissaDate: 2016- Books
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The memoirs of General Fairfax: wherein is contained an account of all his sieges and battles in the north of England; especially the battles of Leeds, Wakefield, Manchester, &c. Written by himself; With Improvements, selected from Noted Historians of those Times. Also a full and genuine account of the various skirmishes before, an at the taking and pillaging of Bradford, in the time of the civil wars; taken from a manuscript of Joseph Lister, and others. With copper-plates.
Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.Date: M.DCC.LXXVI [1776]- Pictures
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Two Egyptian porphyritic vases, one decorated with a satyr and snakes, the other with hieroglyphs and birdsheads; representing the succession of time and eternity. Etching after J.B. Fischer von Erlach.
Fischer von Erlach, Johann Bernhard, 1656-1723.Reference: 38997i- Books
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Black Munday: or, A full and exact description of that great and terrible eclipse of the sun which will happen on the 29. day of March 1652 : beginning 48. minutes after 8. a clock in the forenoon, and ending 17. minutes after 11. in which time the sun will be almost totally darkened (as at the passion of our Savior) and the stars appear in the firmament in the day time. Also as astrologicall conjecture of the terrible effects that will probably follow thereupon, according to the judgment of the best astrologers: it threatens the fall of some famous kings or princes, and men in authority malice, hatred, uncharitablenesse, cruell wars and bloodshed, house-burnings, great robberies, thefts, plundering and pillaging, rapes, depopulation, violent and unexpected deaths, famine, plague, &c.
Date: 1652- Books
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Black Munday: or, A full and exact description of that great and terrible eclipse of the sun which will happen on the 29. day of March 1652 : beginning 48. minutes after 8. a clock in the forenoon, and ending 17. minutes after 11. in which time the sun will be almost totally darkened (as at the Passion of our Saviour) and the stars appear in the firmament in the day time. Also an astrologicall conjecture of the terrible effects that will probably follow thereupon, according to the judgment of the best astrologers: it threatens the fall of some famous kings or princes, and men in authority: malice, hatred, uncharitablenesse, cruell wars and bloodshed, house-burnings, great robberies, thefts, plundering and pillaging, rapes, depopulation, violent and unexpected deaths, famine, plague, &c.
Date: 1651