viceroy

Example Sentences

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Mountbatten served as the supreme allied commander in Southeast Asia during World War II and became the last viceroy of India before independence.

From Washington Post

De Lesseps befriended the viceroy of Egypt, Muhammad Ali, and his 13-year-old son, Said Pasha.

From Los Angeles Times

In the mid-19th century, the Ottoman viceroy, Khedive Ismail Pasha, built a network of elegant boulevards, imitating Paris, that converged on a space that was named, at first, after himself: Ismailia Square.

From New York Times

“I know settlers came to New Mexico very early, and there’s this deep history. You had a viceroy in New Mexico. The history is so rich.”

From Washington Times

The powers he secured from the Spanish viceroy in Mexico City are sometimes characterized as a Native American Bill of Rights, yet they mainly strengthened the missionaries’ control in California and diminished the military’s.

From Los Angeles Times