Sentence examples for war of conquest from inspiring English sources
noun
A military conflict where one state, nation, or people conquers or attempts to conquer another; a conquering war.
In 1334, however, he began his war of conquest against Byzantium.
The Japanese militarists thereupon raised an outcry for a war of conquest on Korea.
It was not a war of conquest but a war of liberation.
I do not use the term invasion because it was not intended as a war of conquest.
It would not be a war of conquest, as Brissot saw it, but a war "between liberty and tyranny".
Thus the outside world has largely ceased to hear about the atrocities committed in the course of the Bosnian Serbs' holy war of conquest.
"We want no wars of conquest," he said in his inaugural address.
By acknowledging the supremacy of the pope, Michael hoped to gain financial support for his wars of conquest.
In both cases, these threats were fictional, but they made good pretexts for starting wars of conquest.
In India the great Buddhist-influenced king Ashoka in the 3rd century bce definitely renounced war, but he was thinking primarily of wars of conquest.
After the wars of conquest, much of the native population fled to the south, leaving large areas of arable land unused.
