7 sentences with “tens”

The Babylonians burned Jerusalem, along with Solomon's Temple, to the ground, and enslaved tens of thousands of Jews.

In 1241 the Mongols invaded Poland and Hungary simultaneously. Here too they triumphed over tens of thousands of European knights and peasants.

Over the next two years, he crushed every Roman army sent against him, killing tens of thousands of Roman soldiers and marching dangerously close to Rome.

A wave of reprisals against former radicals known as the "White Terror" saw tens of thousands killed (as many died in the White Terror as died in the persecution campaigns of the Committee of Public Safety).

These reforms were completed when the Neo-Babylonians conquered Judah in 586 BCE and enslaved tens of thousands of Hebrews. The impact of this event was enormous, because it led to the belief that Yahweh could not be tied to one place.

During the period known as "the Terror", the king and queen were beheaded, French society was divided in bloody conflict, tens of thousands were guillotined, and the revolutionary government launched a blasphemous crusade against the church.

At worst, commanders took an utterly ruthless view of their own casualties: tens or even hundreds of thousands of deaths were signs of "progress" in the war effort, because they meant that the other side must also run out of soldiers. This was a war of attrition on a new level, a war that soldiers and junior officers alike recognised was designed to kill them in the name of a possible final victory.