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Example sentences for "defeated them"

  • I hope," quickly rejoined the duke, "that you except the troops which defeated them.

  • Eugene Beauharnais, at the head of the Army of Italy, drove the Austrians before him into Hungary, defeated them at Raab, and joined Napoleon.

  • Hiero, having become king of Syracuse, determined to destroy this nest of robbers, advanced against them with a large army, defeated them in battle, and shut them up within Messana.

  • He defeated them in two battles, and compelled them to sue for peace.

  • Theodosius, however, defeated them, and was soon after sent to quell an insurrection in Africa.

  • In =937= he defeated them all in a great battle at Brunanburh, of which the site is unknown.

  • He defeated them in battle and forced them to acknowledge him as their over-lord.

  • He first turned on the West Saxons, defeated them at Cirencester, and in =628= brought the territory of the Hwiccas under Mercian sway.

  • XV The countries of Tsaravas and Ammavas, which from the olden time had never submitted, I swept like heaps of stubble; with their forces in the country of Aruma I fought, and I defeated them.

  • I defeated them; the bodies of their fighting men on the tops of the mountains I heaped in masses.

  • He defeated them in a great battle near Augsburg (955) and pursued them to the confines of Germany.

  • But the Roman inhabitants and the Germans joined against the invaders and defeated them in the battle of Châlons, in 451.

  • As elector of Hanover, George II (who had succeeded his father in 1727), led an army of German troops against the French and defeated them on the river Main.

  • In spite of the odds against him, the poem relates that Walther triumphantly defeated them both, putting out one of Hagen's eyes and cutting off one of Gunther's hands and one of his feet.

  • She therefore sent thirty champions to wrest it from Ogier, who, however, defeated them all, and triumphantly retained his ring.

  • He soon encountered the Moors, who were invading Castile, defeated them in battle, took five of their kings prisoners, and released them only after they had promised to pay tribute and to refrain from further warfare.

  • There he defeated them again, and took the city by storm.

  • Maximinus, the imperial general, then led his forces against them; he defeated them, and made them beg for peace.

  • He defeated them, possibly because they were no longer aided by the Egyptians, and reduced Edom to subjection.

  • The men of Ephraim crossed the Jordan, near the town of Zaphon, and assumed a warlike attitude; but Jephthah punished them for their presumption, defeated them, and blocked their road of retreat on the banks of the Jordan.

  • Jephthah knew well how to gather many brave youths round him, and with these he proceeded against the Ammonites, defeated them, and wrested twenty cities out of their hands.


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