Sentence examples for complete conquest from inspiring English sources

The nearly complete conquest of the Taliban represents a famous victory in the campaign against terrorism.

While Koreans suffered the worst of Hideyoshi's aggression, his stated goal was nothing short of the complete conquest of China.

The complete conquest of Messenia by a land-hungry Sparta seems not to have ended until c. 600.

Excavations showing that Jericho was unwalled and uninhabited, he says, "clearly seem to contradict the violent and complete conquest portrayed in the Book of Joshua".

The military and diplomatic struggles of the French Capetian monarchs Louis VII and Philip II Augustus to gain control of the region from its English Angevin rulers culminated in the complete conquest and annexation of Normandy by Philip in 1204.

Svačić fought in the Gvozd Mountains, preventing the complete conquest of Croatia.

In 221BC, the state of Qin completed its conquest over the other Warring States and united China under its king Ying Zheng, who then proclaimed himself to be the First Emperor and became known in history as "Qin Shi Huang".

It then took a further 15,000 to 25,000 years to complete our conquest of Europe.

Ferdinand's failure to complete the conquest of North Africa now brought a bitter revenge.

Meanwhile, Suppiluliumas returned to complete his conquest of Syria, capturing Carchemish after an eight-day siege.

Public anger over the continuing expenditures needed to complete the conquest of Tonkin swept Ferry from office in March 1885.