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Example sentences for: conquest

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But as its obstinately independent spirit has shown, even after the Florentine conquest of 1555 — a spirit epitomized by its lusty Palio tournament — the town is not without vigor.
On the international scene, the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in 1453 closed Genoa’s Black Sea markets, but competitor Venice worked out a new deal in Cyprus and even a modus vivendi in Constantinople itself.
Congress called for nothing less than the conquest of Canada, but Major-General Isaac Brock’s tiny Canadian force, allied with Chief Tecumseh’s Shawnee Indians, routed a half-hearted American invasion along the Niagara frontier.
Mexico is still one of the largest producers of silver in the world, despite the Spanish conquistadors having looted tons of it during their years of conquest.
When territory wasn’t acquired by conquest — Sind from Baluchi princes, Punjab and Kashmir from the Sikhs, Maharashtra and Delhi from the Marathas, or Assam from Burma — the British annexed it by so-called Principles of Lapse and Paramountcy.