7 sentences with 'posts'
Example sentences and phrases with the word posts and other words derived from it.
• « The Persians continued the Assyrian practice of building roads and establishing supply posts for their messengers. »
• « A messenger on the Royal Road could cover 1,600 miles in a week on horseback, exchanging horses at posts along the way. »
• « The Ptolemies maintained trading posts along the Red Sea and as far south as present-day Eritrea and Ethiopia, trading for ivory and gold from the African interior. »
• « The Roman armies of the western empire quickly marched back to Italy to fight the Goths, abandoning their traditional defensive posts. »
• « The imperial bureaucracy had enormous power in Byzantium. Provincial elites sent their sons to Constantinople to study and obtain posts. »
• « Although Portugal had enjoyed a (relatively brief) period of ascendancy beginning with the remarkable voyage of Vasco Da Gama in the 15th century, it could not compete with the better-funded and better-equipped forces of the Netherlands and Britain, so most Portuguese colonies and trading posts were eventually lost to their rivals. »