Sentence examples for conquest took place from inspiring English sources

The Irish had always had contacts with the rest of the British Isles, and during the early 6th century they immigrated from the island of Ireland to form the kingdom of Dál Riata, although exactly how much conquest took place is a matter of dispute with historians.

An effective conquest takes place when physical appropriation of territory (annexation) is followed by "subjugation" (i.e., the legal process of transferring title).

On the eve of the conquest, games took place in a rectangular court bordered on the long sides by walls with both sloping and vertical rebound surfaces.

Situated on a large cape, the hotel overhangs the Saint Lawrence River and runs alongside the celebrated Plains of Abraham historic site where the battle for the conquest of Québec took place in 1759 during the Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France.

The Ottoman conquest of Slavonia took place in 1536 155252.

According to the version of events preserved by the Song of Dermot and the Earl, the coalition's conquest of Dublin took place on 21 September.

Although the English conquest of Wales took place under the 1284 Statute of Rhuddlan, a formal Union did not occur until 1536, shortly after which Welsh law, which continued to be used in Wales after the conquest, was fully replaced by English law, under what would become known as the Act of Union.

The conquest of the islands took place gradually.

These practices had become so deeply rooted that, even after the Spanish conquest, Christian-pagan ceremonies occasionally took place in which humans were sacrificed by heart removal or crucifixion.

After Alexander the Great's conquest of the country rapid Hellenisation took place in Lycia, and its culture became subsumed in the Greek.

For Bin Laden, these efforts at conquest had taken place without respite throughout the 20th century and included Russia's wars in Chechnya and the actions of "the crusader Australian forces [who landed] on Indonesian shores … to separate East Timor, which is part of the Islamic world".