Sentence examples for a fleet at the from inspiring English sources

So I stand gawking from the entrance gate as a hotel Rolls Royce enters, one of a fleet at the disposal of jetsetters staying in lavish two story suites that reach 8,400 sq.

And, as the show relates, "In its early years the colony was run almost like a fleet at sea, concentrating on trade with the locals, relying on supplies brought in aboard ships, and with most of the inhabitants in the direct employ of the company".

The first campaign ended in failure (1695), but this did not discourage Peter: he promptly built a fleet at Voronezh to sail down the Don River and in 1696 Azov was captured.

In August 1798, the French Mediterranean Fleet was largely destroyed by a British fleet at the Battle of the Nile during the French invasion of Egypt.

The first relief of the siege came in the spring of 1780 when Admiral George Rodney, captured a Spanish convoy off Cape Finesterre and defeated a Spanish fleet at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, delivering reinforcements of 1,052 men and an abundance of supplies.

However, after training more sailors and inventing a grappling engine known as a Corvus, a Roman naval force under C. Duillius was able to roundly defeat a Carthaginian fleet at the Battle of Mylae.

Salamis was named after the Greek naval victory over a Persian fleet at the battle of Salamis in 480 BC.

Detached to reinforce Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson's fleet in 1798, she took part in the decisive defeat of a French fleet at the Battle of the Nile.

The first story the cruise line had told Meredith was that, according to the ship's log, the Star Princess was moving through a fishing fleet at the time.

Agricola, whose forces included a fleet, arrived at the site with light infantry bolstered with British auxiliaries.

The Persian advance was blocked at the pass of Thermopylae by a small Allied force under King Leonidas I of Sparta; simultaneously, the Persian fleet was blocked by an Allied fleet at the straits of Artemisium.