8 sentences with 'port'
Example sentences and phrases with the word port and other words derived from it.
• « He immediately engaged the Persian forces and began winning battles, securing Anatolia and the rich Greek port cities in 333 BC and Syria in 332 BC. »
• « Ultimately, the British fought three wars with the Dutch, defeating them each time and, among other things, seizing the Dutch port of New Amsterdam in North America (which the British quickly renamed New York). »
• « Peter the Great forced the Russian nobility to dress and act more like Western Europeans, sent Russian noble children abroad for education, built a huge navy and army to fight the Swedes and Turks, and (at the cost of semi-slave labour) created the new port city of St Petersburg as the new imperial capital. »
• « Charles XII faced an attempt by Denmark, joined by the German prince of Saxony, to reassert its sovereignty in 1700. This became the Great Northern War (1700 - 1721) when Peter the Great of Russia joined in, intending to seize Baltic territory for a permanent port. »
• « The notable result was that the formerly Spanish territory of Florida was given to the British in exchange for the Cuban port of Havana. »
• « After the Opium War, other European states secured the legal right to conduct trade in China, administer their own taxes and laws in designated port cities and support Christian missionary work. »
• « Japan even supported the Entente war effort by seizing a German-controlled Chinese port, Tsingtao. »