Sentence examples for shipments of silver from inspiring English sources

For the rest of the 16th century this disparity was still largely masked by the fluctuating, but generally increasing, shipments of silver from the New World.

Seven galleons in transit from Cartagena, Colombia, to Havana, all of them burdened with shipments of silver coin and gold plate.

This Act assured producers of a ready market for their product, with the Mint gaining a large profit in seigniorage, through monetizing cheaply purchased silver the Mint in fact paid for some shipments of silver bullion in silver dollars.

Virgil Earp thought that some of the Cowboys had met at Charleston, Arizona, and taken "an oath over blood drawn from the arm of Johnny Ringo, the leader, that they would kill us.' With their business efforts yielding little profit, Wyatt became a stagecoach shotgun messenger for Wells Fargo, guarding shipments of silver bullion, until he was appointed Pima County deputy sheriff on July 28 , 1880

"Virginia City" casts Flynn as a Union officer who escapes from a Confederate prison and is sent west on a secret mission to intercept a shipment of silver intended for the depleted coffers of the Confederacy.

For several days, the Texians had heard rumors that the Mexican Army was expecting a shipment of silver and gold to pay the troops and purchase additional supplies.

Suppose you are a supplier wanting to sell a shipment of silver for at least $14.00 in July.

The regime of the likable but awkward Philip IV — a Hapsburg whose inbred heirs (not counting his thirty-two bastards) seemed to die nearly as fast as Velázquez could paint them as toddlers in royal regalia — was overstretched abroad, sclerotic at home, and, what with the Dutch and English predation on its shipments of gold and silver from its New World colonies, often broke.

It produced vast quantities of silver bullion for shipment to Europe, especially from the mines at Potosí.

The British Phonographic Industry BPII) certified the song silver for shipments of 200,000 units.

"Cry Me a River" has been certified gold in Australia by the Australian Recording Industry Association ARIAA), denoting shipments of 70,000 units, and certified silver in France.