Examples of 'seized the city' in a sentence

Meaning of "seized the city"

seized the city - This phrase usually describes a situation where a person, group, or force takes control of a city by force or through strategic action. It is commonly used in historical contexts, literature, or news reports

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seized the city
Extreme consternation seized the city.
Hannibal seized the city and there was a great slaughter of its inhabitants.
It was destroyed by ISIS when the terrorists seized the city.
ISIS militants had seized the city last summer.
The consul Manius Curius Dentatus expelled a contingent in Croton and seized the city.
The Christians seized the city and began to fortify it.
The conquest went largely uncontested and Muhammad seized the city with little bloodshed.
After Kaloyan seized the city its ramparts were destroyed and Aspietes was hanged.
We must take Alexandropol back from the Turks who seized the city so treacherously.
They seized the city centre, set up barricades, occupied railway stations and the telephone exchange.
The Albanians seized the city.
In an unexpectedly brilliant and rapid campaign, the Army of Thessaly seized the city.
Because he 's seized the city in your name.
A week later, the Soviet troops seized the city.
Last year, the rebels seized the city of Goma before being driven back.

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Five hundred years ago in July, a strange mania seized the city of Strasbourg.
The Phocians had seized the city of Delphi, home of the famed oracle.
Revolution sunflowers . Kiev police negotiating with people who seized the city hall building.
Anuvong 's forces seized the city of Nakhon Ratchasima by a ruse when the governor was away.
Rather than leave Sicily, they seized the city of Messana.
The kingdom of Golkonda extinguished in 1687 when the great Mughal ruler Aurangzeb seized the city.
At that time, the Swedish troops seized the city of Bydgoszcz three times.
Guntharic, allied with the Moorish chieftain Antalas, marched on Carthage and seized the city gates.
The Syrian army and popular forces seized the city of Zabadani on September 1.
As Jews, the Reys decided to flee Paris before the Nazis seized the city.
Pro-Egyptian factions may have seized the city again but Abdi-Ashirta's son Aziru recaptured the city.
During the hundred years'war, the Anglo-Burgundians seized the city.
The brothers-in-law seized the city and elected Pandulf, eldest among them, prince.
Following the defeat against the Kurdish Peshmerga they seized the city of Shingal on 3 August.
Chile seized the city from Peru in 1883 following the War of the Pacific.
He came and defeated Israel, and they seized the City of Date Palm Trees.
In 470 the Ostrogoths seized the city around, expelling the Sarmatians.
Zhang Zuolin withdrew from Beijing on June 3, and Li 's army seized the city and Tianjin.
Pro-Egyptian factions may have seized the city again, but Abdi-Ashirta's son, Aziru, recaptured Sumur.
Earlier, the so-called " Army of Conquest " seized the city of Idlib.
I will guard the men that seized the city ( and ) my god.
In the Teutonic takeover of Danzig, the Teutonic Knights seized the city in November 1308.
Yesterday, the rebels seized the city.
The next morning, under cover of fog, he seized the city in a coup de main.
In 224, the Sasanian king Ardashir I seized the city and killed him.
In April 1949, he joined the Crossing River Campaign and then seized the city of Shanghai.

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