-
Bhadu master and Maru
master are
considered to have been
instrumental in
lionising him
following his death, in
order to
motivate demoralised combatants....
- destroyer" but also
argued that he was a
complicated figure who
should not be
lionised as a
saint or
reduced to a demon, as he "indeed
tried his best to bring...
-
usually draws...
Disliked in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, he was
nevertheless lionised in
China for his role in
launching what was the
honeymoon period in US-China...
-
account for his
punitive measures,
though contemporary British sources lionised him and his "gallant blue caps". When the
British retook Cawnpore, the...
-
inflamed by anti-Boer and anti-German
feeling and in a
frenzy of jingoism,
lionised him and
treated him as a hero.
Although sentenced to 15
months imprisonment...
- 1 September. He was met with a hero's welcome; the
British public had
lionised Nelson after Cape St Vincent, and his
wound earned him sympathy. They refused...
- cult of the "hero spies"
began in the
Soviet Union, the
Soviet media lionising the
achievements of
spies such as
Harold "Kim" Philby,
Richard Sorge,...
-
captured in an
ambush by Sun Quan's
forces and executed. Guan Yu's life was
lionised and his
achievements were
glorified to such an
extent after his
death that...
- position. Zhukov's name was put in the
public eye yet
again when
Brezhnev lionised Zhukov in a
speech commemorating the
Great Patriotic War. On 9 May 1965...
-
Highlanders of Scotland, the
first of a
number of 19th-century
books lionising the Highlanders, the clans, and the
tartaned regiments. The
various Celtic/Highland...
