"English" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The English then occupied the settlement stripping it of anything of value before departing two weeks later.
- The English, with a few guns, occupied a clearing.
- The English briefly occupied the town in 1779 and reportedly burned its 200 buildings.
- Within 3 years, the English had occupied the island, whose population was only about 3,000, but it took them many years to bring the rebellious slaves under their control.
- The English occupied the area but only for a short while as news of the peace of Breda arrived.
- The English had occupied Jamaica in 1655 but had been reduced significantly by disease in the aftermath.
- There is no evidence that the English actually occupied the castle, and it was formally handed back by Richard I of England in 1189.
- Some in Ireland say that after the English occupied the island, they gave Irish men the choice of either joining the army or being exiled forever.
- The English occupied it in the year 1405.
- The English occupied it in 1796.
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