Sidenote: The Britons decide to call in the Saxons] They consulted what was to be done,[71] and where they should seek assistance to prevent or repel the cruel and frequent incursions of the northern nations.
The ferocious people to whose incursions Ammianus refers as the cause of the Visigothic invasion were the Huns [see p.
Charles, presuming to regard Aquitaine as belonging properly to his share, was given much trouble by his nephew Pepin,[208] who annoyed him by frequent incursions and caused great loss.
It were tedious to relate or even to enumerate all these incursions of the Northmen, with their monotonous incidents.
But these incursions were of short duration, and most frequently undertaken by plunderers few in number, who retreated precipitately with their booty.
Charlemagne regarded the conquest of Saxony as indispensable for putting a stop to the incursions of the Saxons, and the conversion of the Saxons to Christianity as indispensable for assuring the conquest of Saxony.
It has just been shown how Charlemagne by his wars, which had for their object and result permanent and well-secured conquests, had stopped the fresh incursionsof barbarians, that is, had stopped disorder coming from without.
Charlemagne had plenty to do, with the view at one time of checking their incursions and at another of destroying or hurling back to a distance their settlements; and he brought his usual vigor and perseverance to bear on this second struggle.
Earthquakes and Saracen incursions ruined the town, which became wholly abandoned when Man-fredonia was built with its stones.
Read any account of their incursionsinto Italy during this and the preceding centuries, and you will find that the corsairs burnt the towns whenever they had time to set them alight.
This, however, we do know, that certain individuals are more likely than others to yield to the incursions of the tubercle bacillus.
We have studied closely the ways in which the cells of the body often successfully resist the incursions of the already seated germs, and learned how in many ways the natural forces of cure may be sustained and strengthened.
This inherited susceptibility to the incursions of the tubercle bacillus, should this find lodgment in the body from without, by no means always reveals itself in any apparent lack of vigour or robustness of the body.
In many of these incursionsthe French were assisted by the natives, with many tribes of whom they had succeeded in establishing good relations.
The mischief effected by these incursions to the patriot forces was very great.
Thus the impetuosity of his attacks and incursions in the neighbourhood of the Guianas and Venezuela was sufficient utterly to startle and dismay the unfortunate Spaniards.
The repeated incursions of the Cimmerians into the west of Asia Minor in the course of the seventh century had important consequences for the lands affected by them on this side of the Halys.
And this had already threatened incursions into domains from which men of letters as such had generally kept aloof, or which, if they had touched, they had touched not as men of letters.
We must now turn to the incursions of this time into politics, which, if not much happier, were more amusing.
But it was founded on the supplication of the inhabitants here, that for many yeares enjoyed little rest from the incursions of those Indians of Dominica and amongst them those of Warner's family.
When only seventeen he was taken prisoner by the Usbegs, who made annual incursions into Khorasan; but he effected his escape after a captivity of four years.
During the earlier months of the year 1827 it would appear that there had been, from time to time, incursions and alarms between the two towns, and even rioting that involved hand to hand fighting in the streets.
The numerous Teutonic invasions and incursions which had swept over northern and central Italy, from Odoacer to Charlemagne, had established a powerful territorial nobility.
The fugitives found protection in Florida, where they made a new settlement, from which they continued long afterwards, to make distressing incursions into Carolina.
Hostilities between Great Britain and France were immediately followed by incursions of French and Indians into the exposed parts of New England.
The western parts of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, were left exposed to the incursions of the savages; the frontier settlements were generally broken up; and the inhabitants were driven into the interior.
Perpetual and distressing incursions had been made into the country, which were marked by the burning of undefended habitations, and the massacre of men, women, and children.
Their bloody incursions were made in all directions, and many settlements were entirely broken up.
They made incursions into Massachusetts, in consequence of which, some troops were detached to the village in which Rahlé resided, for the purpose of seizing his person.
Its possession had given the French an absolute control over the Indians of the Ohio, who were accustomed to assemble at that place, for the purpose of making their destructive incursionsinto those colonies.
After examining the bay, and making such incursions inland as they found possible, they were to extend their operations to the north as long as their provisions lasted, when they would return to the depôt and make their way south.
This expedition was followed by other incursions during the winter into the interior, where they found plenty to do ravaging the king's territory.
To return to Iphicrates and his men: they frequently extended their incursions even into Arcadia in many directions, (15) following their usual guerilla tactics, but also making assaults on fortified posts.
THE COUNT OF THE SAXON SHORE During the early part of the Roman occupation of Britain the chief mode of defence adopted against piratical incursions was the navy, classis Britannica.
The fortifications of Berwick-upon-Tweed were primarily intended for defence against the Scottish Border raiders and incursions coming overland, but they also served to protect the town against the enemy approaching by sea.
On a coast such as this, extending from Pegwell Bay to Kingsdown, and directly facing the nearest shores of the Continent, it would be remarkable if no traces were found of defensive works raised to oppose the incursions of the enemy.
In the year 1558, in consequence of the frequent incursions and depredations of the French, the people of Brighton determined to erect fortifications for the defence of the place.
Their incursionswere frequently repelled and chastised; but their country was never subdued.
But it was necessary to secure an ample extent of pasture and arable land, against the frequent and suddenincursions of the tribes of Latium, the perpetual enemies of the republic.
Achilleus at Alexandria, and even the Blemmyes, renewed, or rather continued, their incursions into the Upper Egypt.
From the time of Anna till the reign of Alfred the Great there are few events on record except the frequent incursions of the piratical Danes, who at last over-ran East Anglia, and had their head quarters at Thetford in 870.
The cattle are exposed to incursions of the enemy, and have to be transported by steamboats.
Hunter urges the Secretary, in a lengthy letter, to send a cavalry brigade into Essex and the adjacent counties, to protect the inhabitants from the incursions of the "Yankees.
The people in the "Northern Neck" have been much harassed by the incursions of the invaders.
When I van came to the throne the country was not even yet free from the incursions of the Tartars.
Yearly incursions have been made by them far into the interior of Chihuahua and Durango, and they but seldom return without having acquired much plunder, as well as many captives, from the defenseless inhabitants of that country.
It would seem that the incursions of the Cheyenne and Arapaho had prevented the usual holding of the k`ado for the two preceding years.
The Celts, who were probably the first Aryans in Europe, seem gradually to have been forced farther and farther west by the incursions of other peoples.
In the early days of the Roman republic the Gauls, as we know, inhabited all the north of Italy, and used often to make successful incursions down to the very centre of the peninsula.
It would also indicate that the extreme south of Korea was not settled by Japanese, for it was here that the Japanese incursions took place.
A man named Yi Si-ă gathered about him a strong body of soldiers and sent word to Seoul that it was simply with a view to defending his district from the incursions of the northern barbarians.
The alarming increase both in the frequency and the violence of the Japanese incursions gave scope for the development of the military genius of Gen.
So regular were these incursions that the Ok-jŭ people used to migrate to the mountains every summer, where they lived in caves as best they could, returning to their homes in the late autumn.
In that year the Japanese pirates stopped their incursionsinto Korea for the time being.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incursions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
