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These soldiers were preferred, as there would be an opportunity of ransoming them when taken prisoners at a lower price.
The fox then warned the boy against ransoming anyone with the money.
It was claimed that most were dressed much the same as common soldiers and therefore were not recognised as being worth ransoming.
But the ransoming had finally gone too far.
They also did a brisk business in ransoming some of the captives.
Sometime later, she acts as the captain of a pirate ship, doing everything from raiding other ships to ransoming hostages.
He devoted himself to fighting paganism, ransoming captives and visiting rural districts.
The practice of ransoming had long been customary in medieval wars and there was no reason to forgo its pecuniary advantages in this conflict.
While performing these missions, he makes moves to take sole possession of the illicit ransoming funds, but is eliminated.
Apart from being conspicuously virtuous, he showed a practical turn in building aqueducts and ransoming captives, as well as building new churches and restoring monasteries.
What we did learn is this it's a hostage that's worth ransoming.
The incident illustrates the importance of ransoming noble captives, as a means of political manipulation, increasing one's own revenues and exhausting the resources of one's foes.
Finally, in this context a form of more regular re-recruitment should be mentioned that in practice had some quantitative importance: the ransoming of prisoners of war.
Shaler took out $75,000 in specie and then divested the packet after ransoming her for $8000.
Then violence erupts and suddenly the whole ship is endangered by a master criminal whose intention is not a simple hijacking and ransoming of the wealthy hostages on board.
