conquest

• But this is far from maintaining that the divan of Constantinople ought to have favoured the French expedition; that our conquest was about to restore to him, in some sort , Egypt and Syria; that the capture of Alexandria and the battle of the Pyramids would enhance the lustre of the Ottoman name ! —  Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men
• Into a half-peopled country, large portions of which are lying waste, it might be barbarous to forbid an immigration of harmless and persecuted strangers; but if these Germans were persecuted, they were certainly not harmless; they had come at the instance of the party in Gaul which was determined to resist the Roman conquest, and unless the conquest was to be abandoned, necessity required that the immigration must be prohibited. —  Caesar: A Sketch
• The only thing keeping this from being an official wire-to-wire Carolina conquest was a Goran Suton 3-pointer that gave the Spartans a 3-2 lead. —  Boston.com Most Popular
• This conquest was also inspired by the commercial ambition of the Venetians, who had long coveted what were believed to be the fabulous riches of the city. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I
• In the Mosaic cosmogony and legislation, the writer introduces not, expressly or impliedly, the existence of an evil principle, unless the serpent of the Paradisaic account, which has been rather arbitrarily so metamorphosed, represents it;[10] while the expressions in books vulgarly reputed before the conquest are at least doubtful. —  The Superstitions of Witchcraft

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