Translation for 'ransoming' from English to French

ransoming

rachat {m} [de prisonnier]

• Ettinger discovers from Jewish refugees living in and around Buenos Aires that the Nazis are ransoming Jews in concentration camps, accepting bribe money from their overseas families for their safe passage out of Germany.
• Following the Second World War, King's was involved in numerous kidnapping and ransoming of rival mascots, including Queen Mary's leopard and the LSE Penguin.
• The ransoming of Jogues brought a change in how the Mohawk treated captives.
• In 216 BC, as a senior senator, Titus successfully opposed the ransoming of the Romans taken prisoner at the Battle of Cannae, on the grounds that they had made no effort to break out of the Carthaginian lines.
• Raisuni used the money he gained from ransoming Perdicaris to build his palace, nick-named the "House of Tears".

• Instead of succeeding, in 1718 Angre captured three East India Company merchant ships, which refused due Jakat/tax and hence ransoming their crews.
• One of the most deadly raids took place in Upper Provence and in the Apt region in 896. For almost a century, they lived in the country, looting and ransoming it.
• The oratory was founded by a small congregation, founded by the cleric Giovanni Merlo in 1736, with among its aims, ransoming priests that had been kidnapped by Saracen pirates, and ministering to their infirmities and burial.
• Common means were recapturing, ransoming, or purchase.
• Many Mediterranean states, including Tripoli, had been pirating American shipping vessels, ransoming the sailors, and demanding tribute to prevent future pirate attacks.

• In the Middle Ages, this act expanded to encompass the ransoming of those prisoners who were guilty of minor offenses, which was also one of the occupations of the Holy Ghost Confraternity.
• He is remembered in Jewish History for capturing of four Babylonian Rabbis and ransoming them to the Jewish communities of Alexandria, Kairouan, Spain, and one unidentified other location.
• Immediately after this promotion he departed with Archdeacon Selleck on the dangerous errand of ransoming English captives at Algiers, for whose redemption ten thousand pounds had been subscribed by the bishops and clergy.
• The Inferiors often form into gangs that survive by kidnapping and ransoming Superiors, killing other Inferior gangs, or doing dangerous work-for-hire for Superior clients.
• Finally, in this context a form of more regular "re-recruitment" should be mentioned that in practice had some quantitative importance: the ransoming of prisoners of war.

• A small skiff connected with the ransoming of a Saudi supertanker capsized killing five pirates in the Sea of Aden.
• Along with the Order's mission of ransoming Christian captives, each Trinitarian Community served the people of its area by performing works of mercy; redemption and mercy are at the center of the Trinitarian charism.