She Chongming besieged Chengdu, and the Provincial Administration Commissioner Zhu Xieyuan held the city firmly. (History of Ming (Mingshi), Annals 明史 卷22 天啟元年)
Shenyang was strongly defended, but the Later Jin army pulled up the palisades and charged; Ming commander He Shixian and others were killed in camp. (Draft History of Qing (Qingshigao) 清史稿 卷1 天命6年三月)
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Caid Hammu ben Ali takes the pasha's post on the day his predecessor is arrested (Tarikh al-Sudan (Chronicle of the Sudan) Houdas 1900 불역 장 XXXI (houdas1900_fr_djvu.txt 줄 15264))
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Within two or three months half of the party died, especially in the deep winter of January and February (even healthy people caring for the sick were short). (Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation Bradford 1908 Jameson판 OCR l.5611)
Natives were prowling around nearby; Massasoit came together with Squanto, and they made a six-point peace treaty (not to harm one another, to help one another if attacked, and so on). The record says the treaty lasted 24 years. (Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation Bradford 1908 Jameson판 OCR l.5741)
In early April the Mayflower, which had landed the believers, was sent back to England (it had stayed at anchor a long time because of the need and the danger). (Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation Bradford 1908 Jameson판 OCR l.5958)
Governor Carver, sowing seed in the fields, fell on a hot day complaining of a headache, and within a few hours lost consciousness. (Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation Bradford 1908 Jameson판 OCR l.6003)
After Carver, William Bradford was elected governor and Isaac Allerton assistant; Allerton was re-elected every year after that. (Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation Bradford 1908 Jameson판 OCR l.6014)
On May 12, the first marriage at Plymouth. Following Dutch custom, a magistrate, not a minister, performed the civil wedding. (Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation Bradford 1908 Jameson판 OCR l.6021)
They visited their new friend Massasoit with gifts and sent men to look at the land, guided by Squanto. On the road food ran short, and they returned exhausted. (Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation Bradford 1908 Jameson판 OCR l.6048)
On August 14 an armed party surrounded the house and searched it, but the target had already left that very day. (Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation Bradford 1908 Jameson판 OCR l.6177)
On September 18, ten men and Squanto (as guide and interpreter) set out in a shallop to survey Massachusetts Bay and trade. They were welcomed warmly. (Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation Bradford 1908 Jameson판 OCR l.6196)
In November the small ship Fortune arrived unannounced, carrying Cushman and 35 people. There was almost no food. (Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation Bradford 1908 Jameson판 OCR l.6236)