Sentence examples for british incursions from inspiring English sources
Two tendencies can be discerned in Spanish policy until 1748: a desire for revenge and recovery in Italy and an "Atlantic" policy that sought to protect America from British incursions and to revive Spanish colonial rule.
This writer was lucky enough to be part of the Tour caravan's two previous British incursions: in 1994 to coincide with the opening of the Tunnel, and in 2007 for a glorious Grand Départ in London.
December 4, 1730 Charleston, South Carolina September 27, 1805 Charleston, South Carolina William Moultrie, (born December 4, 1730, Charleston, South Carolina [U.S.] died September 27 , 1805 Charleston) American general who resisted British incursions into the South during the American Revolution (1775 83).
The fort was named Fort Rosalie, and it was aimed at protecting the French trade monopoly in the region from British incursions.
Despite their earlier successes, by 1814 many of the Navy's best ships were blockaded in port and unable to prevent British incursions on land via the sea.
Due to sickness, lack of clean water, and worries about British incursions, it was recommended to Nicola that he move the Corps to Trenton, New Jersey.
The broadcast by Arabic satellite television of pictures of two dead Royal Engineers seized outside Az Zubayr during the initial British incursion in Iraq outraged the British command.
The troops maneuvering in the vastness of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine from 8too 9 tonight are the vanguard of a major British incursion.
A former Conservative party chairman, Michael Ancram, is also reported as describing the British incursion into Libya in 2013 mounted by Cameron as equivalent to Tony Blair's Iraq war, leaving the country in a worse state than at the outset.
This photograph of Prince Alemayehu was taken during the 1868 Napier expedition, a British military incursion into Maqdala, Ethiopia, to rescue three dozen European prisoners.
To protect the south against the British and against Portuguese incursions from Brazil, the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata was created in 1776.
