'war indemnity' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a sum of money that one country demands from another as compensation for the damages and expenses incurred during a war. Example: The defeated country was forced to pay a hefty war indemnity to the victor, crippling their economy for years to come.
A French war indemnity of 1871 was used largely to reduce the public debts of the states.
In 1817 he opposed the government's policy of relying on foreign banks to finance France's war indemnity.
Prussia was to be occupied by French troops until a war indemnity, fixed at 120,000,000 francs, had been paid.
In 1901, as part of the war indemnity for the Boxer Rebellion, the Chinese government finally paid Ward's heirs $368,000 to settle the old claim).
He reorganized the army and worked to restore national morale; he successfully floated two bond issues that permitted the war indemnity to be paid off in 1873, thus ending the German occupation ahead of schedule.
A huge war indemnity was demanded, and the ruler of Varanasi handed over instead a symbolic tribute, a begging bowl said to have been used by both the Buddha and Ashvaghosha.
Austria agreed to recognize French territory captured by the treaties of Campo Formio (1797) and Lunéville (1801), cede land to Bavaria, Wurttemberg, and Baden, which were Napoleon's German allies, and pay 40 million francs in war indemnities, and Venice was given to the Kingdom of Italy.
The cost of the war and the large indemnity paid under terms of the peace treaty further increased discontent.
Paying for the wars and their indemnities certainly increased the tax burden of the peasantry, but how serious a problem this was has remained an open question among scholars.
Today, there is no distribution network and scant demand for fiction.In this section They think they have right on their side Spinning on regardless Double indemnity The doves of war Bleak publishing houses ReprintsIn order to survive, publishers switched from literature to textbooks, certain to be bought by students and schools.
Founded in 1911 in deep national humiliation, Tsinghua University was initially funded by the infamous Boxer Rebellion Indemnity Scholarship, which was essentially war reparations China paid to the United States.
