It was with this utterly inadequate and motley crew of serviceable and unserviceable and positively detrimental ships that Farragut was ordered to reduce the defenses of New Orleans, overthrow its naval resistance and conquer the city.
It had made an end of the second attempt to conquer Richmond and in that way to finish the war.
But above and beyond all these considerations, was the desire of the Federal authorities to conquer control of the Mississippi itself throughout its entire length.
Instead of advancing to conquer Washington or Baltimore, Lee fell back into a defensive position, there to meet an army nearly or quite twice as large as his own.
It was the equally obvious policy of their adversaries to conquer control of it.
He gazed at the lofty crown of Monte Rosa and the wastes of snow that guarded its steep approaches, and the chief guide delivered the opinion that no man could conquer their awful heights and put his foot upon that summit.
Are you going to conquer this agonising and dangerous passion?
If trouble overtakes me, Grandmother, and I cannot conquer it myself, I will come to you and to none other, God only excepted.
He knew that only great souls conquer heavy trouble with strength like hers.
Although he had sworn to himself to think of her no more, he could not conquer his thoughts.
Raisky felt a relief in the firm determination he now made to conquer his passion, and decided not to return from this journey, but to have his effects sent after him.
The excitement was great for a few minutes, and every frightened inhabitant of Jinxland looked with awe and amazement at the great Orks whose descent had served to rescue the Scarecrow and conquer King Krewl at one and the same time.
It would be very rude to conquer a King without proper notice.
Therefore I expect to conquer King Krewl with ease.
The Ork seemed rather disturbed when it learned that the Scarecrow had gone alone to conquer King Krewl.
We will conquer King Krewl and put Gloria upon his throne as Queen of Jinxland.
The right, the good, the true, is all-powerful, and will inevitably conquer sooner or later when brought to the front.
The light of the match, which but a little effort of the breath would have extinguished at first, has imparted a flame that is raging through the entire building, and now it is almost, if not quite impossible to conquer it.
That is why disciplined troops can conquer five times their number of rioters or savages.
And he tried to conquer England, so that France could rule the world.
Even after Trafalgar," he went on, "Napoleon hoped to conquer England.
He prophesies to Death that although he may seize Alcestis, a man will come who will conquer him, and deliver that woman from the infernal realm.
Only in the realms he could not yet conquer remained the hostile forces to which he ascribed praeternatural potency, because not able to pierce them and see through them.
He enables Cyprian to move mountains and conquer beasts, until he boasts that he can excel his infernal teacher, but the Devil cannot bring Justina.
He has been slaying lion and dragon, and he now resolves to conquer Death and deliver Alcestis.
We learn that in Asaland was a great chief, Odin, who went out to conquer Vanaland.
He could not infuse courage or endurance into wretched starvelings, nor had he administrative genius to conquer the shortcomings of his commissariat.
A brother of Macmahon was with Shane, and we are told that 1,000 cows were taken from his tribe in revenge; but the result of all the operations was to prove that Sussex could neitherconquer Ulster nor even defend the Pale.
But royal words, however sweet, could notconquer Ulster.
I shuddered at the idea of using force against our fellow-citizens, and felt as if I could by my own strength, oppose and conquer the demon of dissension.
Annette, who was a Jewess by birth, and very wealthy, had at first attempted to conquerher way into society by dress and show.
Let them not dare come and say, 'Conquer your pain, for hundreds suffer just as you do.
It was completely successful; Narvaez was wounded, captured, and sent in chains to Vera Cruz, while the army that had come to conquer him swore allegiance to Cortes as Captain-General and marched with him back to Mexico.
To conquer the former patrimony of the British kings seemed the monarch's first object, and in a very short time he made himself master of almost all the principal cities of the duchy.
The Turkish sultans published the proud order: "Forward, let us conquer the whole world, wheresoever we tie up our horses' heads that land is our own.
Meanwhile reports of Cortes' doings and success had reached Velasquez the Governor of Cuba, who determined to despatch an expedition to conquer or capture him as a traitor.
You will conquer at last, and come out of the fight a nobler man.
His sister's words were to come true, 'You will conquer at last, and come out of the fight a nobler man.
And the object of all his policy, of all his labour, was to conquer so that he might reign.
The train it ran along like wind, Coaches and cabs did fly, Both men appeared determined To conqueror to die.
The theory of Christian duty enunciated by them is that we should never conquer by force, but always, if we can, conquer by persuasion.
In their mythology St. George did not conquer the dragon: he tied a pink ribbon round its neck and gave it a saucer of milk.
I did so, under a promise, that he would admit me again in the evening; for notwithstanding my persuasion that Thornton would not put his threats into execution, I could not conquer a latent foreboding of dread and evil.
Alexander did not conquer kingdoms for ever; and Russelton's good fortune deserted him at last.
He projected an expedition to conquer Canada, and used his influence to induce New England to join in the enterprise.
In 1713, the war between England and France terminated by the treaty of Utrecht, which put an end to the effort to conquer Canada.
Thou canst conquer the proudest potentates, and make all men equal--and yet I fear not thee; then, why should I fear aught else?
She had to meet and somehow to conquer the sickening sensation of revolt that had come upon her.
I may have some trouble with you, but conquer you I will.
Let us be prepared, therefore, to go forth not to conquer but to participate in the life of the world.
Culture cannot be spread by force, since force does not conquer spirit.
It is notorious that nations that conquer tend to spend their vitality in conquest and introduce various factors of deterioration into their lives.
Their captain had lost so many men, who were left lying on the shore, that he set sail; and they were so thoroughly punished that they never again thought of coming to conquer this country.
Though they felt confident that they would conquer with the divine aid, they made themselves ready, with prayer and fasting and suffering, for the dangers and hardships without which there is never conflict, and much less victory.
But be of good courage, for we have on our side Him who conquered the devil, and who every day causes His followers to conquer him.
The occasion which obliged the Spaniards to conquer it was an attack made upon it in 1581 by a Japanese fleet, the Japanese desiring to have control of this region because of the abundance of products which it yields that are lacking in Japon.
Up to that time, though many had desired to learn it, no one had yet been able to conquer its great difficulty; thus it had been impossible to minister to the Chinese or to teach them in their own language.
For, as thou could'st not without him, So, without thee, he cannot conquer Troy.
While, therefore, the evil that comes upon the peoples they are to conquer is deserved, the good they themselves are to receive is equally undeserved.
The mind first was to be fortified against the temptation to fall away; then the external pressure from the example of the peoples they were to conquer was to be minimised by the practice of the ban.
Was that company weaker at this time than they had been before, that they could not manage or conquer the Cayuses?
