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It has also started a fight with an Italian media mogul.
And after Barkov was cross-checked to the face, Panthers winger Michael Haley started a fight.
The care for Dumbledore's sister started a fight between the trio, resulting in a duel that left Ariana dead.
When authorities arrived to collect the animal, G7, also owned by the caller, started a fight with the male dog.
He went into the lunchroom and found the other kid, started a fight with him, and pulled out the gun.
Before the first puck had even been dropped in that first game, two players in the middle had dropped their gloves and started a fight.
Unmoved by indictment: An Alabama woman was charged with manslaughter after the police said she started a fight in which she was shot, ending her pregnancy.
A man on a Southwest Airlines Co flight started a fight with a woman sitting in front of him in October 20143 after she reclined her seat.
"He was known in the community as not to be someone who started a fight, but if you started it, he finished it," said one of his cousins.
According to testimony at the trial, that started a fight that ended with two other officers restraining Spear on the ground while Coll kicked him repeatedly in the head.
Warsaw Mayor A.J. Connors has contended the incident wasn't racially motivated and that Wall "started a fight" with Waffle House employees and should have been arrested, the newspaper reported.
I often regale my male friends with the tale of the time during college football pre-season when I started a fight with a coach on the practice field.
Trump feuds with Carly Fiorina Trump started a fight with Fiorina, the only woman in the GOP race, with a remark during a Rolling Stone interview published in September.
About 30 minutes later, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, uninvited guests are said to have started a fight at a Sweet 16 party that quickly devolved into a shooting, leaving five injured.
McQuaid started a fight with Carrier, which was quickly broken up by the officials, and McQuaid was given an additional two-minute penalty for instigating and a 10-minute misconduct.
Missoula Police Public Information Officer Travis Welsh says police were called to the scene on Thursday around 2:30 pm after Daniel Stine started a fight with a restaurant employee.
It is of no importance who "started" these feuds between Republican senators and Trump; childish disputes about who started a fight are beneath the dignity of senators and the president.
Defenseman Adam McQuaid started a fight with Carrier, which was quickly broken up by officials, and McQuaid was given an additional two-minute penalty for instigating and a 10-minute misconduct.
The next morning, she said, the noise she made feeding their daughters and his refusal to provide a credit card for grocery shopping started a fight that spilled onto the driveway.
The high-end dry cleaner, known as the "Sultan of Stains," started a fight with Bethenny Frankel, accusing her of stealing the Skinny Girl name from the ice cream brand Skinny Cow.
McCarthy, 46, started the conversation by asking Schroeder if there was ever a moment on the show where she felt she acted out or started a fight just to get more screen time.
Ms. Jones spotted Ms. Jemison in the parking lot and started a fight with her, according to a law enforcement officer with direct knowledge of the investigation who did not want to be identified.
Lt. Michael Johnson of the Huntsville Police Department said in an emailed statement after the arrest that Mr. Sealy started a fight with a protester and then pushed the protester, who knocked Mr. Sealy to the ground.
"I don't actually feel that bad for new people, because I wish they would just leave," the original castmember said when asked if she felt she acted out or started a fight just to get more screen time.
Before the start of his shortened final season with the Knicks, Fisher was dragged into a very public spat with Matt Barnes, after his former teammate tracked him down at his estranged wife's house and started a fight.
Amid conflicting reports of Mr. Saakashvili's exact whereabouts late Sunday, a spokesman for Ukraine's border guards, Oleh Slobodyan, said a crowd had broken through a frontier post with Poland at Shehyni in western Ukraine and started a fight.
In an exclusive clip from the upcoming episode of NBC's sitcom Great News, Portia Scott-Griffin, a news anchor played by Nicole Richie, has started a fight at work — and it's up to her boss, played by Tina Fey, to stop it.
I once attended a Raiders-Chargers Monday night game where a man wearing a Raiders jersey in a wheelchair started a fight with a man in a Chargers jersey who wasn't in a wheelchair, which in turn incited a full out brawl that required police assistance.
The Foxes were accused of killing a white man who started a fight with them because they would not let him pass their Ford touring car in his Chevrolet.
They went into the pub and started a fight. One that was just bad enough for someone to call the boere. When the gattas arrived they got donnered for their trouble.
The accounts of Brown's death suggest that in celebrating his 30th birthday he became drunk and started a fight with Henry Van Sickles, who chased him on horseback and then shot him dead.
Quinn suffers from depression and has been very open about his struggles throughout the years. While taking a trip to Germany in 2009, Quinn was arrested for disorderly conduct while visiting the Oktoberfest. Another person started a fight, punched him in the face, knocking his tooth out.
The Foxes were accused of killing Clarence Nichols, a white man who started a fight with them because they would not let him pass their Ford touring car in his Chevrolet. On April 28, 2014, Louisville was hit by an EF4 tornado, which killed 10 people.
Bloodsucker later sucked out the rest of Raphael's mutagen. The other Turtles decided to capture Bloodsucker so they could get the mutagen back to Raphael. Finally, they found Bloodsucker and started a fight. During the battle Raphael (who looked like a normal pet turtle at this point) started biting Bloodsucker thus draining the stolen mutagen back.
He had the most wins (14, with 9 losses) and his lowest ERA (3.08). Once again, Kison was the Pirates' number two starter in 1977, this time behind Jerry Reuss. On July 8, Kison hit Mike Schmidt with a pitch during a game. Schmidt charged the mound, started a fight, and broke a finger, while Kison escaped without injury.
Three years later, he discovered Revolver by the Beatles. His first job was at a record store, but because of his lack of punctuality he was fired. He disliked school, and after he started a fight with one of his teachers, he was expelled and excluded from all high schools. He went through countless jobs and served in the army for 14 months.
Twist is an unincorporated community in Cross County, Arkansas, United States. Twist was named after a nearby plantation of the same name. Twist was mentioned in the B.B. King song "Lucille" as the location of a club where he once played. It was at this club in Twist where two men started a fight over a woman named Lucille which set the place on fire.
The French troops in Edinburgh started a fight in Edinburgh in October 1548 over a culverin sent for repair and several Scots were killed on the Royal Mile.Teulet, A., Relations politiques de la France et de l'Espagne avec l'Écosse au XVIe siècle, vol. 1 (1862), 230; also in Knox, John, History of the Reformation, Bk. 2. D'Essé organised a night raid on Haddington to increase their popularity.
John Joseph Ryan (1853–1902) was an American outfielder from 1873 to 1877 in the National Association and the National League. After retiring from baseball, Ryan joined the Philadelphia Police Department in March 1891, becoming a well-liked and respected officer. Ryan died while on duty, after being kicked in the stomach while trying to arrest Charles Hemple, who started a fight in a pub.
In the early noon, Cavalry Regiment started a fight 5–6 km away from Stracin and managed to capture it at nightfall. Yet again, Stepanović hasn’t been informed about this event, and next day he ordered his troops to capture Stracin, which wasted a lot of time. After this event, communication was established between the First and the Second armies and the road to Kumanovo was open.
Half an hour later, he called up support from the cavalry, and after some mutual verbal insults, the citizens and the military started a fight. There were 24 dead and about 70 injured after the clashes. At first, the police attempted to cover up the story by restricting communications to and from Ruse, but it soon became the top news in newspapers all over the country.
However, he refuses to reveal anything, having taken a vow of silence. After finding a business card, they travel to the smoldering ruins of the business. They enter a nearby tattoo parlor where Stu got his tattoo, and they learn that they started a fight that escalated into a riot. The trio returns the monk to his Buddhist temple, where they are encouraged by the head monk to meditate.
The match was preceded by controversial statements from both sides and with memories of the previous game in which Maradona was seriously injured. Once the game finished, Maradona himself started a fight that ended with all players in a pitched battle. The match ended with a 1–0 victory for the Basque team. This was their twenty- third win in this competition and was part of their fifth double.
However, she was also being worried at some of his actions and how he achieved them. When David confronted Cyclops, he immediately started a fight and laid waste to most of the X-Men. Emma Frost and the Stepford Cuckoos proved to be trickier but Ruth surprised Emma, knocking her out with a punch. Ruth likewise pulled an unlikely victory against the Cuckoos after David slyly gave her a power boost.
During January 1924, Kraus started a fight against Imre Békessy, publisher of the tabloid Die Stunde (The Hour), accusing him of extorting money from restaurant owners by threatening them with bad reviews unless they paid him. Békessy retaliated with a libel campaign against Kraus, who in turn launched an Erledigung with the catchphrase "Hinaus aus Wien mit dem Schuft!" ("Throw the scoundrel out of Vienna!"). In 1926, Békessy indeed fled Vienna to avoid arrest.
In one such case in , he punched a heckler in the face and got arrested. He also started a fight with manager Fred Clarke while with the Pirates and gave him a black eye. The Doves hired him as manager during the season, but his fiery temper did not go well with his team, and he was relegated to player-only status after only 76 games. In 1037 games over 15 seasons, Bowerman posted a .
Extreme sport lover Zhou Feng got involved in an international illegal trade by accident. So he had to follow an international special agent Bruce to Budapest. Together with a crappy police officer Miao Yan, a non-professional scientist Ding Shan and an unemployed doctor LV, they became an amateur unit. In company with the senior agent Bruce, these four rookies started a fight with the terrorists that was both thrilling and hilarious.
The song was covered by Type O Negative on the album Life is Killing Me. Sleater-Kinney and Fred Schneider also covered the song for Wig in a Box, a benefit album for the Hetrick-Martin Institute. Production of the album was documented in the 2006 film Follow My Voice: With the Music of Hedwig. In the film, the song was performed at the fictional Bilgewater's and the song started a fight.
The Buffalo Bills selected Fine in the fourth round of the 2008 NFL Draft, with the 132nd overall selection. On November 2, 2008 Fine caught his first pass in the NFL against the New York Jets. The reception was a 9-yard touchdown pass thrown by quarterback Trent Edwards. In 2009, during a game against the New York Jets, Fine was battling Jets linebacker Marques Murrell and eventually started a fight with Murrell and Murrell's teammate James Ihedigbo.
A police spokesman said, that the soldier was only saved by a stab-proof vest: "They started a fight because the aggressor was too close and the soldier shot him at least four times with his handgun." The attacker’s home was searched and his internet activities were reviewed. The perpetrator was a 26-year-old Austrian of Egyptian origin. Authorities said, he sympathized with radical Islamist ideology, but the exact motive was subject to further investigation.
The next morning, the three men are taken out to be shot by firing squad. Dax, suspecting Roget for his nomination of Paris, forces Roget to lead the executions. While a sobbing Ferol is blindfolded, Paris refuses Roget's offer of a blindfold and reacts ambiguously to Roget's meek apology. Arnaud, meanwhile, is so badly injured after having started a fight in prison that he must be carried out in a stretcher and tied to the post.
On August 13, a fire broke out in a prison in Quillota, located near the coastal city of Valparaiso, after two rival gangs started a fight. Although the fire was contained, approximately 24 inmates were injured in the incident, five due to stab wounds that occurred during the intergang violence. Prisoners with HIV/AIDS and mental and physical disabilities reportedly failed to receive adequate medical attention in some prisons. Adequate accommodations for those prisoners with physical disabilities were made.
It is revealed that the real Nikhil was emotionally abusive toward Simar. Kabir saw Simar being abandoned by Nikhil at a party one night and they began their affair, but after a while, Simar became too obsessed with him. On the night of the accident, Kabir had been trying to leave Simar, who threatened to commit suicide if he did. Nikhil had arrived and started a fight with Kabir, which ended when Simar killed Nikhil with her gun.
He had a 1.98 ERA through 25 starts with the White Sox in 1968. August 22 of that year, with a 3-2 count on Dick McAuliffe, John threw ball four over McAuliffe's head. An angry McAuliffe charged the mound and started a fight between the two players. McAuliffe was fined and suspended; John was not punished, but he tore some shoulder ligaments in the scuffle and missed the rest of the season with an injury.
Alexander the Great Antiquity has examples where groups of dogs defeats even the 'King of Beasts', the lion. Greek legend reflects Achilles' shield with the depiction of a fight of his dog against two lions. A second is a Persian King Kambyses possessed a dog that started a fight with two full-grown lions. A third, is reported by a Roman historian, Claudius Aelianus, in which he states Indians showed Alexander the Great powerful dogs bred for lion-baiting.
The information made the size of the PAVN force known to Norton for the first time. At dawn Colonel Smith sent additional units to seal off the area. One started a fight with the 22nd's 7th Battalion south of Truong Son. The new action prompted Norton to shift units from his 2nd Brigade northward across the Lai Giang with bulldozers to help destroy PAVN bunkers. In all, the 1st Cavalry Division had now committed thirteen rifle companies from five different battalions.
Soon, law enforcement and population started a fight, which led Bourguiba to convince certain Monastirians to choose him as their lawyer. Furthermore, he led them to protest to the bey, on 4 September. The party leadership seeing this as an occasion to get rid of a new form of activism they dislike, decided to reprimand the young nationalist. Bourguiba, who considered the Destour and its leaders as an obstacle to his ambitions, decided to resign from the party on 9 September.
Stage two, the entry of radio as a new medium was horrifying to the established news distribution source. Prior to radio news moved through wire services, through the newspapers to the people. The press started to fear that if radio started to provide news, then news could bypass the newspapers, thus shifting the flow of news throughout society. This started a fight for self-preservation on the part of newspapers, which could only be won if all journalists stood together.
In the past, the school had been at the center of some controversy. During the sexual-abuse investigation into former school superintendent Robert Sigler, school officials, were faulted for doing too little to prevent the abuse. Two years later, violence in the school had reached such a level that a city police official said Twin Towers was responsible for more police complaints than any other school. In one incident, students started a "fight club" that was only stopped when parents learned of it and informed the school.
Once there, after crossed accusations of bastardy, the two half-brothers started a fight to death, using daggers because of the narrow space. At a moment when they fought on the floor, Pedro got the upper side and was about to finish Henry. But then Du Guesclin, who had stayed inactive for he was compromised to both, made his final choice. He grabbed Pedro's ankle and turned him belly-up, thus allowing Henry to stab Pedro to death and gain the throne of Castile.
However, on one occasion, an American crocodile in a Florida zoo escaped its cage and started a fight with a large male American alligator in a bordering pen, and was killed by the alligator. Conversely, there is one confirmed case of an American crocodile preying on a sub-adult American alligator in the wild in Florida. American alligators and American crocodiles do not often come into conflict in the wild, due largely to habitat partitioning and largely separate distributions. There are several records of American crocodiles killing and eating spectacled caimans in South America.
Upon returning, Rick began dating Ridge's daughter Phoebe Forrester. When Phoebe refused to have sex with him, Rick cheated on her with his former lover Ashley Abbott, leading him and Phoebe to break up. Rick then seduced and began a relationship with Ridge's ex-wife and Phoebe's mother, Dr Taylor Hayes. When Taylor dumped him because of her unresolved feelings for Ridge, he started a fight and fell off a building and faked being paralyzed to gain sympathy and have his mother kick Ridge out of the house.
On the way to his boat, Hall was drunk and started a fight, during which he was stabbed in the right hand. Forced to stay and recuperate in Australia while Fitzsimmons went to the US and won the world title, Hall lost his Australian belt to Owen Sullivan in Broken Hill, New South Wales. By the end of 1890, however, Hall had recovered his Australian championship in a match against Starlight Rollins, before losing it to Billy (Professor) McCarthy on 18 January 1892 – he embarked for America three days later aboard the ship Alameda.
A few hours later he was arrested again after a high speed chase in California. Brooks spent nearly a year and a half in prison after pleading guilty to charges of resisting a public officer with a firearm and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. Brooks said he was addicted to marijuana at the time of his arrest. In April 2019, Brooks was arrested a third time after police said he started a fight at a convenience store and threatened to kill Las Vegas police officers.
On the March 3, 2007 televised episode of AAA, Psicosis came as Nicho and started a fight with Cibernético. He had worn a La Parka mask, pretending to be him, in order to get La Parka expelled from AAA. Psicosis then joined Halloween's new version of La Familia de Tijuana, along with Extreme Tiger, in AAA under the ring name Nicho el Millonario. He returned after an absence from the company and joined Joe Líder's new rudo stable, while helping attack La Familia de Tijuana and the Mexican Powers.
During the 1980s he performed in several popular crime TV series, but with the collapse of the USSR he was left without any job. In 1994 Yumatov shot dead a 33-year-old janitor who helped him bury his dog. Investigation showed that after the burial they drank in the dog's memory, and the janitor told Georgi that he regretted Nazis hadn't won the war. Yumatov, a war veteran, couldn't stand it and started a fight, during which he was wounded in the head with a kitchen knife.
Following Pontins' closure in 2009, Hemsby's traders started a fight-back to prosperity by engaging brand expert Simon Middleton, known as "the Brand Strategy Guru", to re-invigorate the resort's image. Focusing on the village's Viking origins, Middleton proposed a new strapline for the resort, "1200 years of seaside fun", with an accompanying logo showing a laughing Viking brandishing a bucket and spade. The Viking theme was continued with the announcement of Norfolk's first Viking Festival held in June. The festival included a Viking encampment and re- enactments of battles, as well as a Scandinavian market and music.
The Iron Sheik also joined the organization later on. Upon Ken Mantell's return, WCCW held its final Christmas Day Star Wars show, during which one of the most infamous incidents in Texas wrestling history — known to wrestling purists as the "Christmas Day Massacre" — occurred. WCWA champion Al Perez and Kerry Von Erich were scheduled to face each other in a steel cage main event for the title, with Gary Hart handcuffed to Fritz to prevent interference. However, before the match began, Terry Gordy ran in and made disparaging remarks about Kerry and his motorcycle accident, which started a fight.
During the exposition of the investigation in the National Congress, Duhau started a fight among the senators, during which his bodyguard, Ramón Valdez-Cora, tried to kill De La Torre but accidentally ended up shooting De La Torre's friend and political partner Enzo Bordabehere. The meat investigation was dropped soon afterward, but not before De La Torre managed to achieve the incarceration of the head of the Anglo meat company for corruption charges. De la Torre would later commit suicide in 1939. The collapse of international trade led to industrial growth focused on import substitution, leading to a stronger economic independence.
Seeing this, the bull told the princess to keep the leaf safe and not lose it under any circumstances. The bull and the princess came upon a troll that roared that they were touching his wood, and started a fight with the bull. The bull won, though he was gravely injured, and the princess had to cure him with a horn of ointment that the troll carried on his person. The same thing happened in a silver wood and a golden one, and soon the princess had a silver leaf and a golden apple, along with the copper leaf.
The two French Canadians then went on a scoring spree for several glorious weeks before Couvrette was released due to attitude problems, Dick returning briefly before Jokat's injury healed. By now, Damphousse was suffering from a groin injury and after rescuing Metros from an embarrassing home defeat to Sunderland with eight goals and three assists, most coming in a memorable final period, Moose too was gone to be replaced by Darren Treloar. Soon after, there was an infamous home game with Telford Tigers. Metros had pulled themselves back into the match at 5-6 before Chuck Taylor started a fight after Jokat had gone in on goal.
After questioning his mother, his sister, the priest and Dr. Carolan, the family physician, Mick visits the Irish social hall to speak with Cocky Burke, his father's best friend. Cocky says that John Joe, a popular amateur balladeer, had a heart attack after English "Teddy boys" started a fight because he was singing an Irish rebel song, then punched and kicked him. Mick asks Cocky to tell the police, but Cocky, who distrusts the authorities, tells Mick to avenge his father. Angered by Rosemary's reluctance to attend the funeral, Mick returns to the hall but is spirited away by Joyce, Dr. Carolan's nurse, when police break up a fight.
Steptoe's journey, however, was interrupted by the Indian leaders, who asked him to return to meet with them. The meeting ended with a handshake and a mutual agreement that Steptoe would leave their territory and travel via a different route to reach Colville. Despite this peaceful agreement, a frustrated Skitswish warrior, badly arguing with the Nimipu scouts, later started a fight shooting at them, provoking the start of fighting between Steptoe and the Skitswish, Spokane, and other tribes. Steptoe's men struggled to fight the 1000 Indian warriors, but because they were so severely outnumbered, Steptoe made the decision to escape that night, and return to Fort Walla Walla.
On August 8, at Watkins Glen, Smith started a fight against Ty Dillon when Dillon dumped him in turn one costing him in a great finish. On August 15, Smith won the Nationwide Children's Hospital 200, at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, passing the leader, Alex Tagliani, in the last lap after slight contact while racing for the lead. On October 3, Smith won his second race in 2015 at Dover, after holding off Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin. On October 17, Smith stated that he would not return to JR Motorsports for 2016 and expected to join a team that is competing in the Cup Series in 2016.
George Feeny eventually sees the Dean's reasonable side when she is willing to trust his judgment over Cory Matthews after he started a fight with a corrupted young professor named Stuart (portrayed by Ben Savage's real-life brother Fred) who made an advance towards Topanga Lawrence. Dean Bolander had Cory under a probationary period of one day for starting physical violence on campus instead of expelling him, and the professor under an investigation for his misconduct. Bolander and Feeny fall in love afterward and eventually they are married. After marrying Feeny in the last episode of season six, she isn't seen again and is mentioned only a few times during the seventh and final season.
After Robert decides to leave office after his term ends, Kevin becomes unemployed and takes some time to decide what he wants to do with his life. He discover that when Kevin was a teenager and struggling to accept he was gay, he started a fight with a boy, Aaron, who tried to kiss him, resulting in him falling off a platform at Ojai. Although William and Nora told Kevin that Aaron was fine, it is revealed in 'Time After Time' that Aaron is in fact paralyzed, and William and Nora have been paying his family ever since. This creates a massive strain in Kevin's relationship with his mother, although they begin to re-bond on his birthday.
In the chorus of the song, the narrator describes his time spent at "Brooks Academy" in Dublin learning to dance in preparation for the ball: > :Three long weeks I spent up in Dublin, :Three long weeks to learn nothing > at all, :Three long weeks I spent up in Dublin, :Learning new steps for > Lanigan's Ball. and > :She stepped out and I stepped in again, :I stepped out and she stepped in > again, :She stepped out and I stepped in again, :Learning new steps for > Lanigan's Ball. Later on in the evening, in one version "Miss Kerrigan" fainted and her "sweetheart Ned Morgan" got upset and started a fight. In another popular version, "young Terence McCarthy, He put his right leg through Miss Finerty's hoops" and that started the fight.
Today Show's Fourth Hour hosts Kathy Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb appeared on the set of their show during one episode. When the show was in Indianapolis for Super Bowl XLVI, the housewives met up with some of the "wives" of the Indianapolis Colts players (actually the players themselves in drag), including Dallas Clark's wife Sherry, Pierre Garçon's wife Noelle, Antoine Bethea's wife Daris, Robert Mathis's wife Shay-Shay, and Dan Orlovsky's wife Marianne. During the episode, Denise inadvertently started a fight with the Colts wives when she mistakenly congratulated the Colts on making the Super Bowl (thinking the game was played at one of the teams' home stadium), and was informed they were actually the league's worst team that season, with their 2-14 record. This caused Denise and Yvonne to quickly resolve their differences and unite against the Colts wives, causing the Late Night wives to win the brawl.
On June 1, 2005, the PKK officially adopted the democratic confederalism program at the end of the 3rd General Assembly of the People's Congress of Kurdistan (Kongra Gelê Kurdistan). Thereafter, the Kurdish liberation movement began to form clandestine assemblies immediately in Turkey, Syria and Iraq, which in 2007 resulted in the creation of the Kurdistan Communities Union (Koma Civakên Kurdistan, KCK), the organization established to put into effect Öcalan’s concept. The KCK brings together Kurdish political parties - as Democratic Union Party (Partiya Yekîtiya Demokrat, PYD), Kurdistan Free Life Party (Partiya Jiyana Azad to Kurdistanê, PJAK), and Kurdistan Democratic Solution Party (Partî Çareserî Dîmukratî Kurdistan, PÇDK)-, civil society organizations and armed groups in all countries in the region over the different parts of Kurdistan. Inspired by the project of democratic confederalism, mayors of the Party of the Democratic Society Party (Demokratik Toplum Partisi, DTP) started a fight for collective rights of a political nature in Turkey through civil disobedience campaigns.
Later he sailed with Thomas Howard aboard the Prosperous but was wounded and left behind when Howard's sailors started a fight at the plantation of ex-pirate Aert Van Tuyl. Escaping from Van Tuyl, Collins had made his way back to Port Dauphin by 1707. Abraham Samuel had died the previous year and Collins took over his settlement and trading post, remaining there for over a decade. Historian Charles Grey writes, “The position was very valuable, for Collins, like Samuells, held the monopoly of the slave trade and, like Samuells, charged ~1oo to each ship that called in for that purpose, or to provision and shelter.” Future Bahamas Governor Woodes Rogers visited Collins there in 1714. Robert Drury, a fellow castaway from the Degrave, came to Port Dauphin in 1716 and found Collins there with fellow ex-pirate trader John Pro, noting that they “had lived without pirating for nine years.” By 1718 there were only a few ex-pirates left at Port Dauphin so Collins and John Pro left for Ile Ste Marie, where they died in 1719. Royal Navy ships ousted the last of the Madagascar pirates in 1723.

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