Quotes About Conquest

warlord who would later become king of Norway.

In his scheme, Mercia would not simply dominate neighbouring kingdoms; it would annex them,

Hastein's wife and sons were

The attackers rounded off their successful mission by destroying the viking fleet,

in 934, the king set out to discipline Constantine by invading his territory.

Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, and there Æthelfrith was slain.

he was extremely powerful – arguably the most powerful of all the English kings before the Norman Conquest.

twenty years since the arrival of the great heathen army that had destroyed three of the four Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

explaining how he and his wife bought it back from a viking army with a payment of gold,

In 686 Cædwalla invaded the Isle of Wight,

after the conquest he received 300 of the island's 1,200 hides for the use of the Church.

The king of Wight, Arwald, appears to have been killed in the course of the invasion,

The conqueror's only concession was to allow them to be baptized in their final days,

The conquest of the Isle of Wight,

Scandinavians started seizing this wealth because they realized it was theirs for the taking.

which stretched from the Irish Sea to the North Sea and was studded with forts along its seventy-three-mile length

thanks to God's will – Alfred was victorious.

He destroyed the pagans with great slaughter,' says Asser,

When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer. - Milton.

Yours be the advantage all, mine the revenge

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What is the point of knowledge if you can't use it to prevail over others?

The universe isn't going to be conquered by legions of geriatrics. No offense.

Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots.