"Invested" in V., for what it's worth

[Jochen Stremmel]

Thank you, John! I think it's worth something. At least that the author
knew that meaning (what I think nobody here doubted) and used it
historically correct. Here, quite early in his career.

Am Sa., 6. Feb. 2021 um 23:21 Uhr schrieb Krafft, John M. <
krafftjm at miamioh.edu>:

> p. 167: “She had found the comb in one of the Cairo bazaars. It had
> apparently been hand-carved by a Fuzzy-Wuzzy, an artisan among the
> Mahdists, in commemoration of the crucifixions of '83, in the country
> east of invested Khartoum.”
>
> p. 464: “"One of the great mysteries about the Siege is why, when the
> Turks outnumbered the invested Knights, when the days of the besieged
> were numbered on a single hand, when Borgo and thus Malta were almost
> in the same hand--Mustafa's--why should they suddenly pull up and
> retreat, hoist anchor and leave the island?”
>
> John
>
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