For a time all Attica was afloat, the people of city and country alike taking to their ships; while a locust flight of Persians passed over their lands, ravaging and destroying all before them, and leaving nothing but the bare soil.
It had marched slowly from the east, ravaging every country it passed through.
Then after ravaging all these regions they returned to the island where they had fixed their habitation.
The Northmen with a hundred ships entered the Seine on the twentieth of March and, after ravaging first one bank and then the other, came without meeting any resistance to Paris.
Louis lost his temper, withdrew his army from the frontier of the Netherlands, and sent it to begin the war with the allies by burning and ravaging the Palatinate.
There was burning and ravaging enough, but nothing of importance was done.
After this encounter Sir John's forces renewed their work of destroying property in the neighborhood of Stone Arabia, and then moved slowly up the river, ravaging the country as they went.
In the spring of 1764 scattered war parties were again ravaging the borders.
On its rejection Edward in 1360 poured ravaging over the wasted land.
The new castle of Montgomery was burned, Brecknock and Cardigan were cleared of the invaders, and the Welsh poured ravaging over the English border.
After ravaging to their hearts’ content the Mongols withdrew in 1236 to their own territory but sent a messenger ordering the king to go to Peking and bow before the Mongol emperor.
These savages were ravaging back and forth across the border, now successful and now defeated.
The matter of the Quelpart rebels came to an issue when they began ravaging the coast of Chŭl-la Province, burning at one place between twenty and thirty ships and carrying away a number of Mongol soldiers as prisoners.
It caused the greatest satisfaction in the Kitan camp and orders were given that the soldiers should cease ravaging the surrounding country.
Meanwhile the Japanese were ravaging the southern and western coasts without let or hindrance.
The pirates now were ravaging the east and south and were advancing on Song-do.
This they did, crossing the Yalu and ravaging as far as Puk-ch‘ung and Hong-wŭn.
At the same time there was trouble in the south, for pirates from both Japan and the Sung kingdom of southern China kept ravaging the island of Quelpart.
They now broke their oath of fealty to the government, rose in open revolt and began ravaging the country right and left.
The Cat'ti invaded Germany and Rhoe'tia, ravaging all with fire and sword; but were repelled by Victori'nus.
Being forced to give over the attack, they contented themselves with burning the houses and ravaging the country round.
Orders were sent at the same time to Baissoor to give over ravaging the district of Roodbar.
Returning home by the way of Italy, he delivered the supreme pontiff from a formidable enemy who was ravaging his territory, and the grateful pope conferred on him in return the full absolution of all his sins.
The numerous nobles, turbulent, unprincipled and essentially robbers, had been in the habit of issuing from their castles at the head of banditti bands, and ravaging the country with incessant incursions.
While Marshal Saxe was ravaging the Netherlands, an Austrian army, sixty thousand strong, crossed the Rhine, like a torrent burst into Alsace, and spread equal ravages through the cities and villages of France.
But, as the toqui carefully avoided any rencounter, the governor contented himself with ravaging the Araucanian territories in revenge.
As soon as the Argives learnt that Agis was ravaging their fields they set out with all speed towards Argos, and finding Agis engaged in the work of pillage, they drew up their forces, and offered battle.
After ravagingthe plain, they encamped at Decelea, fourteen miles north of Athens, and here they established a fortified post, which was garrisoned by contingents of the Peloponnesian army, serving in regular order.
They were defeated by him and driven with great loss to take refuge in the Alps, and thus were prevented from ravaging the neighbouring parts of Italy as they had been wont to do.
Arrived at Pallene, he fixed his headquarters at Aphytis, and led his army against Potidaea by short marches, ravaging the country as he advanced.
After the Athenians had retired from Argos with their fleet, and the Lacedaemonians also, the Argives made an incursion into the Phlisaid, and returned home after ravaging their land and killing some of the inhabitants.
Meanwhile, after the completion of the investment of Potidaea, Phormio next employed his sixteen hundred men in ravaging Chalcidice and Bottica: some of the towns also were taken by him.
This prevented his taking the Peloponnesian states in detail, and ravaging them with his fleet; when the multitude of his vessels would have made any combination for self-defence impossible.
After this the Peloponnesians marched into Attica as far as Eleusis and Thrius, ravaging the country under the conduct of King Pleistoanax, the son of Pausanias, and without advancing further returned home.
He accordingly granted a truce for the number of days requisite for the journey, and meanwhile abstained from ravaging their territory.
After ravaging the plain, the Peloponnesians advanced into the Paralian region as far as Laurium, where the Athenian silver mines are, and first laid waste the side looking towards Peloponnese, next that which faces Euboea and Andros.
The Lacedaemonians also marched out to Caryae; but the frontier sacrifices again proving unfavourable, they went back again, and the Argives, after ravagingabout a third of the Epidaurian territory, returned home.
He therefore contented himself with ravagingthe neighbourhood, and then crossed again at Kelso into England.
Surrey, having seen Charles safely landed in Spain, returned along the coast of France, ravaging it on all accessible points.
They were only bent on ravaging the neighbourhood, and the citizens of London closed their gates against them and held out for York.
Carthage was their head-quarters, and they were continually ravaging the coasts of the Mediterranean with their fleets.
Meanwhile, the Cimbri had crossed the Alps and were ravaging the fertile fields of Lombardy, meeting with but slight opposition from Catulus, the other Consul.
During this year the Indians continually harassed the whole frontier, from Pennsylvania to Kentucky, ravaging the settlements and assailing the forts in great bands of five or six hundred warriors.
Moreover, some of the young Christian Indians backslid, and joined their savage brethren, accompanying them on their war parties and ravaging with as much cruelty as any of their number.
There they found that the men had just started out to cut off the retreat of the marauding savages who were ravaging south of the Kentucky.
These tribes were encouraged and secretly helped by his own Malay chiefs, and insolently defied his power, continuing their depredations, capturing every vessel which ventured out, and ravaging all the adjacent coasts.
And to all this must be added piracy, from time immemorial sweeping the sea and ravaging the land.
In Egypt, in 1843, the popular idea was that the hordes of Locusts, which were then ravaging the land, were sent by the comet observed about that time for twelve days in the southwest.
There he continued six months, exposed to thoseravaging insects; and to such a degree was his whole body disfigured by them with sores and swellings, that when he returned he was only to be known by his voice.
He therefore contented himself with ravaging the country by detachments: he sent M.
He reproached him for remaining in a state of inaction at Sepphoris, whilst the enemy was ravaging and laying waste all the surrounding country, and reducing the Christian population to a state of hopeless bondage.
We fight neither for revenge nor conquest; neither from pride nor passion; we are not insulting the world with our fleets and armies, nor ravaging the globe for plunder.
Sherman's army entered on the 17th and remained five days, burning a considerable part of the city and ravaging the surrounding country.
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