ansarys

Updated: June 22, 2025

But the Ansarys had apparently no desire to bring upon themselves a second punitive expedition, and though Lady Hester spent most of her time in a retired cottage outside the town, in defiance of the warning that her life was in danger, the tribes forbore to molest her.

George Paston - Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century

During the autumn Lady Hester was actively employed in stirring up the authorities to avenge the death of a French traveller, Colonel Boutin, who had been murdered by the Ansarys on the road between Hamah and Laodicea.

George Paston - Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century

It was considered an act of great daring on her part to go into a district inhabited entirely by the Ansarys, on whom she had lately wrought so signal a vengeance.

George Paston - Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century