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Example sentences for: clans

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Wellesley then turned on the Marathas, whose clans controlled the puppet Mughal emperor in Delhi and much of central India.
The Nor’westers commandeered the French system of forts, depots, and canoe brigades; they inter-married with native peoples and produced new clans of so-called Métis.
When people speak of such pan-ethnic continental clans, they are merely regurgitating American definitions of race.
In 1868 the Satsuma and Choshu clans, never a real threat to Tokugawa authority as long as they remained rivals, joined forces to overthrow the shogun and restore the authority of the emperor, the 14-year-old Mitsuhito.
At the same time, marauding Scottish clans began to attack the Lakes.