Mosul was conquered in a lightning Isis advance in the summer of 2014, falling to the militants along with much of the surrounding Nineveh plains.
In 1890 Rhodes sent a "Pioneer Column," consisting of 200 white settlers and 150 blacks, backed by 500 police, into Mashonaland; the real goal was the Ndebele kingdom, which was conquered in a deliberately provoked war in 1893.
For Bezos, food is another sector to be conquered in a quest for retail domination that has hit several bumps recently, including a fight with the Hachette Book Group over e-book pricing which is turning into a PR fiasco.
It is the second provincial capital to be taken by Isis since Mosul was conquered in a lightning offensive last June, and its fall represents the biggest defeat since then for the government in Baghdad.
Namur was purchased in 1421; Hainaut fell to Burgundian arms in 1427; the rich duchy of Brabant was taken over in 1430; and the combined counties of Holland and Zeeland were conquered in a long series of personally led and bitterly contested campaigns between 1424 and 1433.
For many, that short distance might be conquered in a minute or two.
Sending his most brilliant general, Khalid ibn al-Walid, Iraq was conquered in a series of successful campaigns against the Sassanid Persians.
Pursuing Charles VIII's claims to the kingdom of Naples, Louis concluded the Treaty of Granada (1500) with Ferdinand II of Aragon for a partition of that kingdom, which was conquered in 1501, but a year later the two kings were at war over the partition, and by March 1504 the French had lost all of Naples.
At long last, the conqueror was conquered: in less than a year, Broyard and Sandy were married.
The operation was a limited operation in which Luxembourg and the Low Countries were to be conquered in order to provide a base for further operations against France at a later date and amounted to a less ambitious re-run of the infamous Schlieffen Plan which failed during the First World War in 1914.
