had defected
Past perfect conjugation of defect. There are other translations for this conjugation.

defect

The wire services announced that the two boxers who had defected in Rio de Janeiro had been found and arrested by the authorities on a beach close to that city.
Les dépêches de presse informent que les deux boxeurs qui avaient fait défection à Rio de Janeiro ont été repérés et arrêtés par les autorités sur une plage proche de la ville.
In 46 BC Caesar lost perhaps as much as a third of his army when his former commander Titus Labienus, who had defected to the Pompeians several years earlier, defeated him at the Battle of Ruspina.
En -46, la guerre se poursuit en Afrique, où César est d'abord vaincu par son ancien lieutenant Titus Labienus, qui a rallié la cause pompéienne quelques années plus tôt.
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