Sentence examples for sequence of wars from inspiring English sources

Navigation and mapping were both essential for the successful conduct of war - and England was involved in a sequence of wars against the French and the Dutch in this period.

Edward had meanwhile become embroiled in a long-running sequence of wars in Scotland which began to consume his attention and financial resources, and as a result further work on the Welsh castles slowed to a crawl.

A sequence of war footage from Iraq shows vehicles and aircraft being bombed and dead bodies.

MPAA rating: R (for intense prolonged realistically graphic sequences of war violence including grisly bloody images).

The Israelis also must face the past repeated sequence of its wars since 1982, when the first Lebanon-Israel war was waged.

Their history from the 17th to the late 19th century was a long sequence of tribal wars and feuds.

A drama documentary by Simon Armitage, an orchestral piece by Christopher Reid set in the first world war, and a sequence of dramatic war poems by Andrew Motion were all in the running for this year's award.

Both films were written and directed by Ronald F. Maxwell and adapted from a sequence of Civil War books begun by Michael Shaara, whose 1974 novel, "The Killer Angels," became the movie "Gettsysburg".

And while parliamentarian pamphlet writers are generally assumed to be behind this particular sequence of Civil War fakes, Stoyle believes one particularly blatant pamphlet in the series — which claimed the dog was not only a witch but that the prince was having sex with it — is a doubly bogus hoax fake.

A sequence of bloody civil wars, later termed the Wars of the Roses, finally broke out in 1455, spurred on by an economic crisis and a widespread perception of poor government.

Despite these callings for archival, it is unclear whether copies of the 1977 and 1980 theatrical sequences of Star Wars and Empire or copies of the 1997 Special Edition versions have been archived by the NFR, or indeed if any copy has been provided by Lucasfilm and accepted by the Registry.