11 sentences with 'defeating'
Example sentences and phrases with the word defeating and other words derived from it.
• « After defeating Mithridates, Lucius Cornelius Sulla returned and a full-scale civil war rocked Rome in 83 - 82 BCE. »
• « When Octavian succeeded in defeating Mark Antony, he removed the last obstacle to his own control of Rome's vast territories. »
• « From Egypt, the Greek armies moved east, defeating the Persians in two more major battles, culminating in 330 BC when they took Persepolis, the Persian capital. »
• « Philip II began a campaign throughout Macedonia and the surrounding areas to the north, defeating and usually killing his rival nobles as well as hostile tribes. »
• « After defeating the king's forces in battle, Cyrus was welcomed as a liberator by the Babylonians and strove to worship Marduk to help ensure their continued loyalty. »
• « The closest Rome came to defeating the Persians was under Trajan when he managed to conquer Armenia and parts of Mesopotamia, but after his death Rome quickly abandoned those territories. »
• « Heraclius led the Byzantine armies to recapture Jerusalem and the True Cross from the Persians, defeating them in 628, and in 630 he personally returned the True Cross to its shrine in Jerusalem. »
• « When he finally declared war in 32 BC, Octavian claimed that he was only interested in defeating Cleopatra, which gave him greater Roman support because it was not immediately stated that this was another Roman civil war. »
• « Alexander the Great headed east again with his armies, defeating the tribesmen of present-day Afghanistan and then fighting a huge battle against the forces of the Indian king Porus in the northern Indus River valley in 327 BC. »
• « What contemporary historians have determined, however, is that things had changed: there were more Germans than ever before, they were better organised, and they were capable of defeating the larger Roman forces. What followed was a kind of "barbarian domino effect" that finally broke the Western Empire into pieces and ended Roman power over it. »
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