Venetians have always had to conquer land from the lagoon and defend it from the sea.
Russia was given a free hand to conquer Finland from Sweden.
Painstakingly selected from more than 20,000 subjects, the 400 images featured record the surveying, planning, reconnaissance expeditions and actual attempts by the Society and the Alpine Club to conquer Everest from 1921 onward.
These negotiations led to the notorious German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact of August 24, 1939, a pact that secretly sealed Poland's doom and delayed Hitler's unbending determination to conquer Lebensraum from the Soviets for almost two years.
Accompanied by an army and a papal legate, he subsequently embarked at Brindisi on ships furnished by the Venetians, for whom he tried to conquer Durazzo from Theodore Ducas, Greek despot of Epirus.
This caused eyes to roll in Rome, where many Catholic leaders point out that their Muslim counterparts have never expressed regret for the way Islamic armies sought to conquer Europe from the eighth century on.
Mount Everest has turned into a playground that can barely accommodate all those who want to try to conquer it – from the most professional of experienced mountaineers doing their own thing to the amateur adventurers who have deep enough pockets to fund their dream and sign up in organised groups led by Sherpas.
Italian city states like Venice, Milan, Florence, Genoa, Pisa, Siena, Lucca, Cremona and many others became large trading metropolises, able to conquer independence from their formal sovereigns [25].
Saladin set out to conquer Syria from the Zengids and on November 23, he was welcomed in Damascus by the governor of the city.
About 1465 Rao Bika, a Rajput chieftain of the Rathor clan, began to conquer the area from other Rajput clans.
