Hellespont

Examples

• And this was not a couple of generations after the hosts of Xerxes had crossed the Hellespont! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Xerxes passed into Europe, not as Darius did at the half-mile crossing of the Bosphorus, but at the Hellespont (the Dardanelles). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Through Asia, from the banks of the Nile to the shores of the Caspian, from the Hellespont even to the sea of Oman, a sudden panic was driven. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• We sailed through the barren Archipelago, and into the narrow channel they sometimes call the Dardanelles and sometimes the Hellespont. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He carried expeditions into Illyria and as far as the Danube; he also spread his power along the coast as far as the Hellespont. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They had probably been drifting about Western Asia for some centuries before the massacres of Timurlane drove them over the Hellespont. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Hellespont was bridged at Abydos, and upon a hill was set a marble throne from which Xerxes surveyed the whole array of his forces. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• With part of the army he went on to the Hellespont, leaving the main force in Thessaly under a general, Mardonius. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In 616 A.D. under Chosroes II, they were holding Damascus, Jerusalem, and Egypt, and threatening the Hellespont. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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