Sentence examples for troops in the second from inspiring English sources

The heads disappeared during looting by British and French troops in the Second Opium War in 1860, an event that in China remains a symbol of national humiliation.

Subsequent shows have seen similar studio-based investigations by Chapman into topics including demonic possession and the fate of St Petersburg's famous lost Amber Room, which disappeared after being looted by Nazi troops in the Second World War.

The first is from the 1940s, three years before Magnum was established, when Robert Capa (another co-founder) was a photojournalist embedded with British troops in the second world war.

They also get to learn about the contribution made by Indian troops in the second world war as well as hearing firsthand accounts from the residents of the alms houses next door to the school.

Once the site of a daring amphibious raid by Allied troops in the Second World War, the peninsula is now home to two very different refugee camps.

As the U.S. employs ground troops in the second leg of retaliation against Afghanistan, it fuels more uncertainty on Wall Street.

Café commemoration The bravery of the Belgium troops in the First World War became near legendary.

British troops in the first world war were given "forced march tablets" consisting of cocaine.

Hannibal, son of general Hamilcar who led troops in the first Punic war, gave Carthage its most glorious hour.

Now, with about 2,000 troops in the first rotation of the 6,000-troop NATO Response Force, France is the force's largest contributor of troops.

General Leonard Wood, M.D. 1884, and Theodore Roosevelt Jr., A.B. 1909, the only general officer to land with troops in the first wave at Normandy on June 6 , 1944