The Prince of Conde avenged himself for this stinging reply by taking possession, in Brittany, of all the Duke of Rohan's property, which had been confiscated, and of which the king had made him a present.
They were awaiting their chief; William of Orange was fighting for them in the very act of taking possession of the kingdom of England.
Occupation is invasion plus taking possession of enemy country for the purpose of holding it, at any rate temporarily.
Conquest is taking possession of enemy territory by military force.
On taking possession of her she was found to be filled with soldiers, one hundred and fifty of them, and all made prisoners of war.
He could point to others in the civil service, who had gone to great expense in taking possession of office and then died, but no claim of this kind was encouraged, though their widows were left in most abject poverty.
Any civil officer, by the mere act of taking possession of his office for a month, ought to get his salary for a year, on the reasoning adopted by the senator from Delaware, though only performing a month's service.
Influence is acquired publicly by winning a battle, taking possession of a territory, fulfilling the duties of an embassy with care and prudence, or by giving wise counsel attended by a happy result.
He communicated his ideas to Diotisalvi Neroni, and asked him, in case they should succeed in taking possession of Prato, what assistance might be expected from the princes of Italy, by his means?
But in taking possession of these cities, many disputes arose which were afterward in a great measure settled by the Venetians.
The method of taking possession of a new country is thus described in the old chronicles: Jacques Cartier erected a cross thirty feet high, on which was suspended a shield with the arms of France and the words "Vive le Roy.
Cartier, Jacques, sails for America, 20; manner of taking possession of Canada, 23.
The process of taking possession of the organs, that I have just described, is never performed perfectly unless children are nursed genially.
From all that I said of the modus operandi of the child's taking possession of his body in the nursery period, you see that childish action is involved in the mother's action.
But slow as they were in taking possession, they were not slow in making claims, for they looked on Florida as extending to the Arctic zone.
La Salle and his party stayed in the village for some two weeks, and before leaving went through the form of taking possession of the country in the name of the king of France.
They saw the whites spreading ever more widely through the land and taking possession of the hunting-grounds without regard for the rights of the native owners, and their hatred for the whites grew steadily more virulent.
To Colonel Nicolls the Duke of York entrusted the charge of taking possession of and governing the vast territory covered by the King’s patent.
Georgia, on her part, determined to execute it by taking possession of the ceded territory.
The military rule that a sentry must challenge everybody, and not pass unchallenged even those whom he knew to be all right, was often as slow in taking possession of the officers' minds as those of the least experienced of the men.
Miles, instead of taking possession of the heights with all his men, sent a feeble detachment to those on the north side of the Potomac, and stupidly remained in the trap with the rest.
When Lee, after Gettysburg, retreated southward up the Shenandoah Valley, Meade pursued on the eastern side of the Blue Ridge in a parallel line, taking possession of the passes as far southward as Manassas Gap.
Instead of taking possession of Berlin, and overwhelming the wreck of the king's troops, destitute of cannon, and cut off from all communication with prince Henry, they took no step to improve the victory they had gained.
Here was performed, in presence of Ferdinand and Isabella and their triumphant court, the pompous ceremonial of high mass, on taking possession of the Alhambra.
The Dia de la Toma, I found, was the anniversary of the capture or taking possession of Granada by the army of Ferdinand and Isabella.
Having captured the city, Tiglath-pileser entered Hanon's royal palace, taking possession of all his property, and setting therein his royal couch.
Captain William Reynolds, the officer in command of the Lackawanna, was very proud of having been concerned in taking possession of the first island beyond our own shores ever added to the dominion of the United States.
The ceremony of taking possession over, the howitzers and small-arm men and marines were exercised at target-firing.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taking possession" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
