Sentence examples for burned settlements from inspiring English sources

Additional raids by Scott between 14 and 17 November captured a dozen Acadian prisoners, burned settlements, and uncovered Beausoleil's own schooner.

Lafitte burned his settlement to the ground and sailed under cover of night for parts unknown.

On October 11, 1528, the French sacked and burned the settlement of San Germán during an attempt to capture the island, destroying many of the island's first settlements including Guánica, Sotomayor, Daguao and Loiza before the local militia forced them to retreat.

The military says youths from the Lendu ethnic group attacked villages of Hema people and burned dozens of settlements, raped women and killed at least 200 people.

They fought, and the postwar settlement burned.

Brant's Mohawks raided and burned the Oneida settlement of Oriska later in the siege.

Much of the town and 12 surrounding settlements were burned to the ground.

In 1779, during the American Revolution, the settlement was burned by loyalist forces under Major General William Tryon.

It is likely that the wheel was being repaired or held in storage at the time the settlement was burned down.

Taxing the inflation adjustments is no different in principle than taxing the owner of a house that burned down on the settlement received from the insurance company.

In the case of a second marriage one of the parties may have already been burned in a divorce settlement and want to take steps to prevent it happening again.