8 sentences with 'capturing'
Example sentences and phrases with the word capturing and other words derived from it.
• « The "Catholic monarchs", as they were called, were determined to complete the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula, and in 1492 they succeeded, capturing Granada, the last Muslim kingdom. »
• « However, in 1916, British forces focused their strategy on capturing the eastern stretch of the Ottoman Empire: Mesopotamia, the site of the first civilisation in human history (which became the country of Iraq in 1939). »
• « The renowned researcher Isaac Asimov postulates the possibility of capturing the instant and the path in which neurotransmitters send orders by analysing the electromagnetic field formed or by studying the ionisation recorded in that millisecond. »
• « General Gage stationed 3500 troops in Boston, and from there ordered periodic raids on towns where guns and gunpowder were stockpiled, hoping to impose law and order by capturing them. »
• « They succeeded in capturing the fort, and the cannon from Ticonderoga were taken to Massachusetts and used to reinforce the siege of Boston. »
• « At first, British forces focused on seizing the main colonial centres. They began by easily capturing New York City in 1776. The following year, they took the American capital of Philadelphia. »
• « Establishing a river route from St Louis to the Pacific Ocean was crucial to capturing a share of the fur trade that had proved so profitable for Britain. He also wanted to legitimise American claims to the land against rivals such as Britain and Spain. »