Sentence examples for right of conquest from inspiring English sources
Connecticut claimed most of the southern part of the colony by right of conquest for having defeated the Narragansetts.
Connecticut claimed most of the southern part of the colony by right of conquest for having defeated the Narragansett.
All three ruled by right of conquest, with no pretense that they had any obligations toward those who they ruled.
Lacking a legitimate title, holding his crown only by right of conquest, Phocas found himself confronted by constant revolt and rebellion.
For all those reasons, Charlemagne, king of the Franks and Lombards by right of conquest, assented to his coronation as emperor of the Romans on Christmas Day, 800, by Pope Leo III.
So the movie, in the end, endorses his right of conquest and unification on the grounds that fewer people will die than if the six nations continued to war against one another.
That means that the whole edifice of culture and politics rested on the labour of men and women who by "right" of purchase or conquest had become mere things, mere domestic, agricultural, or mining equipment, and whose presence in Classical Attica rose into the tens of thousands.
In the early years of conquest, encomienda rights effectively meant rights to pillage and round up slaves, usually in the form of a group of mounted conquistadores launching a lightning slave raid upon an unsuspecting population centre.
Encomienda rights were established, although in the earlier stages of conquest these amounted to little more than slave-raiding rights.
Yet no matter how good such victories may feel — and it's getting somewhat harder to remember — Yankee championships have always felt a bit more like the divine right of a king than the conquest of a warrior; a bit more about the payrolls than the putouts; and, when you really get down to it, a bit more of the same.
"THE standard-bearer of great collective ideals: the rights of man, the nation-state, the spirit of conquest, the emancipation of peoples and countries".
