Sentence examples for during the conquest of from inspiring English sources

As I strolled around, I jotted down impressions of how humans have used horses: chariots in 1500 B.C., an all-cavalry army of Genghis Khan, hunters who trained their steed to accept a domesticated lynx or cheetah perched on their hindquarters, fearsome Spanish cavalry during the conquest of the Americas in the 16th century, relay messengers in the Pony Express across North America.

"They're ripping apart the notion that indigenous people were exterminated during the Conquest of the Desert," she added.

Otto and Anna Quangel turn against the regime not out of principle, but because their son is killed during the conquest of France in May 1940.

In 1998, during the conquest of Mazar-i-Sharif, the Taliban-appointed governor converted his religious prejudices into an ungodly massacre.

Lysimachus was one of Alexander's bodyguards during the conquest of Asia, and, in the distribution of satrapies that followed Alexander's death (323), he was assigned to govern Thrace.

In 1361, during the conquest of Gotland by the Danish king Valdemar IV Atterdag, a hastily assembled peasant army attempted to halt the invaders near Visby.

After the Conquest of California during the ongoing Mexican-American War, American settlers began to move to the newly seized land.

The light bulb was both the metaphor and the means for the conquest of human consciousness during the 19th and 20th centuries.

His final teachings, recorded in the Quran and hadith, led them to conquest from the shores of the Atlantic to the valleys of India, at times slaughtering even undefended cities, such as in the conquest of Nikiu, which occurred during the reign of Umar ibn al-Khattab, a man most Muslims think was divinely guided.

The Spanish conquest of Petén was the last stage of the conquest of Guatemala, a prolonged conflict during the Spanish colonisation of the Americas.

Bertrand Russell, The Conquest Of Happiness.