"capture" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They had enslaved captured sailors and even made raids to kidnap people from European coasts, including England and Ireland.
- Fort Delaware, located on Pea Patch Island, served as a prisoner-of-war camp for captured Confederate soldiers and sailors.
- I looked around me, expecting to see captured Japanese sailors.
- It was not illegal under international law; captured foreign sailors were released, while Confederates went to prison camps.
- He and his sailors remained prisoners until November of that year, when they were exchanged for captured Peruvian sailors.
- Most of the prisoners were captured Japanese and Italian soldiers, sailors and airmen.
- Iran said Monday that all 15 captured British sailors and marines had confessed to intruding illegally into Iranian waters on March 23, when they were seized at gunpoint.
- He was responsible for the capture of destruction of at least 150 fishing vessels, bringing 945 captured sailors back to his base in Dunkirk for ransom.
- From the 16th century until the 19th century, the Turks repeatedly invaded the city where they captured sailors and forced them into slavery.
- The Danes, in a gesture of contempt, manned her with a crew of 17 captured British sailors, put one of them in charge, and sent her back to Britain.
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