6 sentences with 'capture'
Example sentences and phrases with the word capture and other words derived from it.
• « Joshua succeeded Moses as leader of the Israelites, whose capture of Jericho constituted their first major victory in the Promised Land. »
• « After the First Punic War and the capture of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, the Roman provincial system emerged: the islands became "provinces" of the Republic, each of which was obliged to pay a tribute (the "tithe", meaning tenth, of all grain) and to follow the orders of Roman governors appointed by the Senate. »
• « The capture of Constantinople inaugurated a new phase in Ottoman history, in which the Ottomans saw themselves as heirs not only to the early Islamic states but also to the Roman Empire. »
• « The anti-Napoleonic coalition had returned the throne to the Bourbons in the person of the unpopular Louis XVIII, younger brother of the executed Louis XVI, and when a French force sent to capture Napoleon defected instead, the coalition realised that they had not really won. »
• « The point of the Brothers Grimm's work was to reach into the remote past to capture the "essence" of what it meant to be "German". At the time, there was no country called Germany, and yet romantic nationalists like the Grimms believed that there was a kind of Germanic soul that lived in the old folk songs, the German language and German traditions. »