In the disposition both of his troops and provinces the chagan exposed the vassals, whose lives he disregarded, to the first assault; and the swords of the enemy were blunted before they encountered the native valor of the Avars.
As the successor of the Lombards, the chagan asserted his claim to the important city of Sirmium, the ancient bulwark of the Illyrian provinces.
The bishop of Singidunum presented the gospel, which the chagan received with devout reverence.
The chagan had never seen an elephant; and his curiosity was excited by the strange, and perhaps fabulous, portrait of that wonderful animal.
On the report of his ambassadors, the chagan was awed by the apparent firmness of a Roman emperor of whose character and resources he was ignorant.
The chagan was encamped in the plains of Thrace; but he dissembled his perfidious designs, and solicited an interview with the emperor near the town of Heraclea.
John Chagan has with him a young Jewish girl named Rachel, whom he kidnapped from a brothel in Orvieto.
LXVI "It has been four years since I mounted a horse and drew my bow in battle," said John Chagan with a grin.
I had already tried everything, including prayer, to get John Chagan to free Rachel, but I could not move his heart.
Hulagu Khan's ambassadors to the pope, Christianized Tartars named John Chagan and Philip Uzbek, arrived in Orvieto two weeks after Daoud.
Footnote 23: A general idea of the pride and power of the chaganmay be taken from Menander (Excerpt.
In the disposition both of his troops and provinces the chagan exposed the vassals, whose lives he disregarded, [33] to the first assault; and the swords of the enemy were blunted before they encountered the native valor of the Avars.
Footnote 31: The arms and alliances of thechagan reached to the neighborhood of a western sea, fifteen months' journey from Constantinople.
The poet (50--88) clearly indicates that the old chagan lived till the reign of Heraclius, and that his son and successor was born of a foreign mother.
Chosroes and the chagan were of course compared to Belshazzar, Pharaoh, the old serpent, &c.
Footnote 25: Even in the field, the chagan delighted in the use of these aromatics.
The chief tributary from the Kafiristan hills is the Pechdara, which joins the river close to Chagan Sarai.
Next the Chagan built himself rafts and tried to bring the Persians across, but the Roman galleys sunk the clumsy structures, and slew thousands of the Slavs who had come off in small boats to attack the fleet.
While Shahrbarz and the Chagan were besieging his capital, he himself was wasting Media and Mesopotamia.
The obstinate Chosroes determined on one final effort to crush Heraclius, by concerting a joint plan of operations with the Chagan of the Avars.
At the same moment the Chagan of the Avars, with the whole force of his tribe and of his Slavonic dependants, burst over the Balkans and beset Constantinople on the European side.
Maurice--whose treasury was empty--refused to comply, and the Chagan massacred the wretched captives.
Then theChagan gave up the siege in disgust and retired across the Danube.
John Chagan comes of an old Christian family, formerly subject to the great Christian King of Asia, Prester John.
John Chagan said, and Ana translated, "I do not believe we have had the honor of being presented to you, Messere.
The friar said, "Serenity, this is John Chagan Noyon," indicating the older Tartar.
Then he saw John Chagan giving him a look as piercing as a Tartar lance.
He saw John Chagan on the other side of the pantry facing the killer.
Madonna Ana," said Fra Tomasso, "ask Messer John Chagan for me whether the city called Karakorum is still the capital of the Tartar empire.
With the Tartars' gold, Mathieu bought two carts and three mules, and they loaded John Chagan and Philip Uzbek in one and the remaining barrels of Montefiascone wine in the other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chagan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
