The navigation from the issue of the Bosphorus to the entrance of the Hellespont is about one hundred and twenty miles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

The naval victory of the Hellespont is fixed to the month Apellaeus, the tenth of the Calends of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

The people afterward named it in memory of her, calling it 'Hellespont' -- 'Helle's Sea.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles] Reference

The Hellespont was a small slice of No Man's Land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]

The strait where the child fell shall be called Hellespont after her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01] Reference

"Hellespont," is engr. by E. Finden from a drawing by J.D. Harding.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry] Reference

So those narrow straits are called "Hellespont," after her; and they bear that name until this day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myths That Every Child Should Know A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People] Reference

Niagara "Hellespont" in this way lost their lives in doing so, as they were reported "missing" afterwards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Troublous Times in Canada A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870] Reference

Spartans after the naval battle of the Hellespont.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Lysias] Reference

Hellespont and protecting the convoys for the army.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

Greeks to break down the bridge across the Hellespont.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition] Reference

Hellespont and the Propontis were fringed with colonies.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

Alexander, thus stretching from the Hellespont to the Indus.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

Hellespont, and lead thy troops through Europe against Greece.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

Hellespont after her name, fell into the waves and was drowned.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference

Hellespont; defeats the Spartans at Thermopylæ: is defeated at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference

Early in the spring of 334 Alexander crossed the Hellespont, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference

Hellespont, deserting his ship, although the commander of it, with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orations of Lysias] Reference

Normans from crossing the Hellespont to establish themselves in Asia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866] Reference

Lord Byron, who had just won fresh laurels by swimming the Hellespont.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

Hellespont with what Herodotus calls "non-Hellenic and blasphemous terms.".    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

Hellespont for the sake of meeting any girl but Hero upon the distant shore?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference

Athos, a bridge was built over the Hellespont, and provisions were collected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Authors of Greece] Reference

Nile, or of the Hellespont, our school of æsthetics would have been different.    From Wordnik.com.  [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference

The liberators, advancing to meet them, passed over the Hellespont into Thrace.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

Macedonia the broken host retreated, finally recrossing to Asia over the Hellespont.    From Wordnik.com.  [Authors of Greece] Reference

Hellespont on the one side, and across Africa to the Straits of Gibraltar on the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

Hellespont, destroyed most of their ships, and captured three thousand prisoners (405 B.C.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference

DEATH OF PHILIP, 336 B.C. But Philip was destined never to lead an army across the Hellespont.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

Hellespont, and advanced to the pass of Thermopylae, commanding the entrance to central Greece.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

Two hundred thousand Persians fell here, and only a small remnant escaped across the Hellespont.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference

Hellespont, passing the celebrated castles in the Dardanelles, which so severely galled the British.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference

Hellespont, pushed themselves into the peninsulas of Greece and Italy, and founded the Greek and Italian states.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

Hellespont, crushed the Spartan guards at the Pass of Thermopylæ, pushed on into Attica, and laid Athens in ruins.    From Wordnik.com.  [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference

May this sacred and sublime monument of Greek heroism forever attract the eyes of those who sail through the Hellespont!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

On one side, sir, of the Hellespont, is a small town called Sestos; it is a spot ignoble now, but was, once, one of note.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition] Reference

Still, if they man their ships, and, defeating us by sea, sail to the Hellespont, and there destroy our bridge -- that, sire, were.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference