protectorate
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After being elected to the First Protectorate Parliament, Downing continued his espionage activities.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
In any case, Cromwell's death in 1658 doomed his increasingly unpopular Protectorate, and in 1660, Parliament consented to the restoration of both monarchy and Christmas, to scenes of widespread jubilation.
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2024
Just Louis Fontaine was born on Aug. 18, 1933, in Marrakesh — in what was then the French Protectorate of Morocco — to a French father and a Spanish mother.
From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2023
It was then known as the British Solomon Islands Protectorate and became the Solomon Islands before independence in 1978.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 26, 2021
Gherland disliked lore, as a general rule, and he certainly disliked it when citizens of the Protectorate got it in their heads to think themselves better than they were.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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