Sentence examples for frontier defenses from inspiring English sources

Constantius then set about restoring frontier defenses.

Support of the frontier defenses became an increasing burden on the central government.

In the 3rd century the Roman frontier defenses began to be hard-pressed by invasions from the Alemanni.

Either the invaders would overrun the settled lands and then adopt civilized customs, or the frontier defenses would prove strong enough to hold them off.

In the 12th century the town became important as a fortress settlement because of its key position in the frontier defenses guarding the east coast route from Scotland.

In 121 he set forth on a tour of the empire, west and east, to inspect troops and examine frontier defenses.

They played a part in the frontier defense forces of the Sāmānids and later of Mahmud of Ghanza.

In the 19th century Tibet was a buffer between Russian imperial expansion and India's frontier defense policy.

The Urianghad tribes surrendered to the Hongwu emperor and were incorporated into China's frontier defense system under a Chinese military headquarters.

Frontier defense forces, aligned in nine defense commands stretching from Manchuria to Gansu, kept China free from Mongol incursions, except for occasional raiding forays such as those by Esen Taiji and Altan Khan.

The Ottomans were able to take advantage of the decay of the Byzantine frontier defense system and the rise of economic, religious, and social discontent in the Byzantine Empire and, beginning under Osman and continuing under his successors Orhan (Orkhan, ruled 1324 60) and Murad I (1360 89), took over Byzantine territories, first in western Anatolia and then in southeastern Europe.