Sentence examples for English captive from inspiring English sources

In WHITE GOLD: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves (Picador, $15), Giles Milton examines the Barbary wars through the horrific experience of one English captive, who was seized and placed on the auction block in Morocco in 1716.

For the 109 English captives, the raid was only the beginning of their troubles.

• Starting in 1995, David Chura taught English to a captive audience of high school students in the Westchester County jail.

Ms. Huppert also spoke English in Brillante Mendoza's "Captive," made last year in the Philippines.

First is a grave – "Charles Lays – died of sunstroke 1878" – and then a plaque for Robert Knox, an English sailor who was held captive on the island by the Rajah of Kandy for 19 years before he managed to escape to this lonely Dutch outpost in 1679.

When Robert III died in 1406, regents had to rule the country; the monarch, Robert III's son James I, had been taken captive by the English.

In the 1420s, Sir Walter Haliburton (d. before 1447) acted as a hostage in exchange for the release of King James I, who had been held captive by the English since 1406.

In seventeenth-century New England, English colonists ruled that "lawful Captives taken in just Wars" could be sold into slavery.

Zúñiga learned from these captives that the English had brought three months' provisions, and that they had only brought smaller cannons (6 to 10 pounders).

However, the raid was a clear victory for the French coalition that aimed to take captives and unsettle English colonial frontier society.

According to some historians, like Philip D. Curtin at Johns Hopkins University, it was a relatively minor shipping point, and in any case, most captives bound for the English colonies originated in other regions.