Crossword-Solution: SQUADRONE
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Hint 1 meaning
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who
is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor
of a candidate for office.
Hint 2 anagram
CTELEOR
Hint 3 another clue
A BALLOT CAST BY A VOTER WHO VOTES FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES OF ONE PARTY
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Sentences with SQUADRONE (5)
The project excited a good deal of discussion in the Scottish parliament, and a motion for the establishment of such a bank was brought forward by a neutral party, called the Squadrone, whom Law had interested in his favour.
Tweeddale and others, turned out of office in favour of Argyll's Government, formed the Flying Squadron (_Squadrone volante_), voting in whatever way would most annoy the Government.
There was but a dull personal strife between the faction of Argyll and his brother Islay (called the "Argathelians," from the Latinised _Argathelia_, or Argyll), and the other faction known, since the Union, as the _Squadrone volante_, or Flying Squadron, who professed to be patriotically independent.
But, as we saw, the reports of Cadogan and the jealousy of George (who is said to have deemed Argyll too friendly with his detested heir) caused the disgrace of the Duke in 1716, and the _Squadrone_ held the spoils of office.
The one result was that the chief of the Squadrone, the Duke of Roxburgh, lost his Secretaryship for Scotland, and Argyll's brother, Islay, with the resolute Forbes of Culloden, became practically the governors of the country.