Sentences with 'outpost'
Example sentences and phrases with the word outpost and other words derived from it.
• « David Hume: 1711 - 1776: Hume was the leading philosopher associated with the Scottish Enlightenment, an outpost of the movement centred in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh. »
• « The Dutch called their colony New Netherland, and it served as a fur-trading outpost for the growing and powerful Dutch West India Company. »
• « A small French force, combined with a native group of Catholic Mohawks and Abenaki (Pocumtucs), attacked the Deerfield outpost, killing dozens of people and taking 112 prisoners. »
• « For 50 years after Sydney was founded in 1788, New Zealand became an economic outpost of New South Wales. New Zealand's main European based economy at the time was built around whaling, sealing, farming and trade with the Maori people. »