Sentence examples for conquered part from inspiring English sources

Accordingly, he conquered part of the Spanish Netherlands in his wife's name (War of Devolution, 1667 68).

Edwin conquered part of Wales and was recognized as overlord by all the other English rulers except the king of Kent.

After defeating the Swedes at Fuxerna, he conquered part of Västergötland.

The Soviet vanguard 201st and 256th Rifle Divisions attacked the Tannenberg Line and conquered part of the Lastekodumägi, the easternmost of the three hills in the area.

The report began like this: "Centuries before the Swedes started flat-packing their furniture, the Holy Roman Emperor Justinian had his own version, sending self-assembly churches to newly conquered parts of his empire".

When the Portuguese conquered parts of the western coast of India in the 16th century, Jesuits leading gangs of African slaves captured the local Hindus and rubbed their mouths with raw pork, instantly transforming them into untouchables.

A series of Vietnamese empires conquered parts of modern-day Laos and Cambodia between the 15th and 19th centuries, while alternately fighting and placating China's rulers, who saw Vietnam as a vassal state.

He announced that his objective in the West was the kingdom of the Visigoths (a Germanic people who had conquered parts of the two Roman empires) centred on Tolosa (Toulouse) and that he had no quarrel with the Western emperor, Valentinian III.

He was one of Serbian noblemen from Zachlumia and Travunia (adjacent principalities in present-day Herzegovina) who received lands in the newly conquered parts of Macedonia during Emperor Dušan's reign.

When Napoleon conquered parts of Italy during the French Revolutionary Wars (1792 1802) and the Napoleonic Wars (1803 15), he unified many of the smaller principalities; he centralised the governments and built roads and communication networks that helped to break down the barriers between and among Italians.

He corresponded with the French government and planned to resume the war in order to conquer part of the Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium).