Sentence examples for a squadron led from inspiring English sources

During this time a squadron led by armoured cars went ahead to reconnoitre the track across the Mount Carmel Range from Sindiane through the Abu Shusheh Pass.

At the beginning of February 1800, the Neapolitan government, reinstated in Naples after being expelled the year before, finally agreed to participate in the siege and 1,200 troops were embarked on a squadron led by Vice-Admiral Lord Keith's flagship HMS Queen Charlotte and landed on Malta.

The blockade remained in place throughout the remainder of the Napoleonic Wars; Rosseau in Amazone made another attempt to join the squadron in Cherbourg in March 1811, only to be run down and destroyed by a squadron led by the ship of the line HMS Berwick.

The battle occurred during an extended commerce raiding operation by a French squadron led by Linois in the ship of the line Marengo.

The Battle of Cape Henry was a naval battle in the American War of Independence which took place near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay on 16 March 1781 between a British squadron led by Vice Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot and a French fleet under Admiral Charles René Dominique Sochet, Chevalier Destouches.

On 8 June 1708, it was was attacked off the coast of Cartagena by a British squadron led by Admiral Charles Wager, who wanted to steal the gold.

In March, while Nelson was absent at Palermo, the ship of the line Guillaume Tell, the last survivor of the Nile, attempted to break out of Malta but was chased down and defeated by a British squadron led by Berry in Foudroyant.

On the 15th of February 1804, Captain Dance had the distinguished honour of repulsing a strong French squadron, led by the redoubted Admiral Linois.

While Brooks and his boys sweated out monotonous guard duties beneath the torrid Southern sun, a federal navy squadron led by Flag Officer David Farragut moved up the Mississippi to capture Vicksburg, Miss.

We must bravely enter the fight". A Russian naval squadron led by the nuclear-powered cruiser Peter the Great has moored off Venezuela's coast and is due to hold joint exercises next week with Venezuela's navy, Moscow's first such deployment since the cold war.

With the rest of the surviving ships, the frigates anchored in Cadiz during the week that followed the battle and remained there for the rest of the year, contained in the harbour by a large British blockade squadron led by Vice-Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth.