war indemnity in a sentence
Examples
- For practical and political reasons, Soviet Russia would not accept these horses back as a part of Finland's massive war indemnity.
- The Nawab of Awadh, Shuja ud Daulah, was made to pay a war indemnity of 5 million rupees to the Company.
- With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Henckel advocated levying a war indemnity even larger than that of 1871.
- The treaty's terms forced Philip to pay a war indemnity and become a Roman ally while Rome occupied some areas of Greece.
- The question of prompt payment of war indemnity of elephants and cash became a source of friction between the Ahoms and the Mughals.
- Thus, according to the treaty Jayadhwaj Singha transferred Kamrup to the possession of the Mughals and promised to pay a heavy war indemnity.
- Following the Greco-Turkish War ( 1897 ), defeated Greece was forced to pay a large war indemnity to Turkey ( ? million ).
- It was also forced to pay 120 million francs to France in war indemnities and fund a French occupying force of 150, 000 troops.
- The output of the Iberian silver mines allowed for the financing of a standing army and the payment of the war indemnity to Rome.
- The following Treaty of Turkmenchay in 1828 crippled Persia through the ceding of much of Persia's northern territories and the payment of a colossal war indemnity.