Sentence examples for to establish settlements from inspiring English sources

De Soto ultimately found no gold, and the Spaniards who followed him failed to establish settlements in Alabama.

He thus embarked on efforts to establish settlements on Africa's west coast and to develop trade routes to the area.

From c. 1100 bce the Phoenicians, the Greeks, and the Carthaginians began to establish settlements and trading posts, especially on the eastern and southern coasts.

Ayutthayan kings permitted Chinese, Indian, Persian, and European traders to establish settlements, employed Japanese warriors, and allowed Western missionaries to preach within Ayutthayan domains.

Partly in response to reduced sea-ice conditions and milder climates they were able to establish settlements in Iceland, southern Greenland (Erik the Red, c. 985), and in eastern North America (Vinland; Leif Eriksson, c. 1000).

The founding of Stanley followed almost a century of shortlived attempts by Britain, France, Spain and Argentina to establish settlements elsewhere in the islands, which were defeated by remoteness, poor soil and weather, and a chaos of rival sovereignty claims and military initiatives.

The convention acknowledged that each nation was free to navigate and fish in the Pacific and to trade and establish settlements on unoccupied land.

If Israel were to bar American Christians from Jerusalem, that would not be grounds for the United States to send in paratroopers and establish settlements.

1500s - European mariners and traders establish settlements.

Jackson, with the geologist Christopher Hayward and Jonathan Stevens, explored the Rachi plateau beyond the excavated part of the original settlement to establish the settlement's original extent and to estimate the possible scale of fighting on it in an engagement of 198 B.C.

(The most startling example has to do with establishing settlements on occupied land).