Sentence examples for a squadron of three from inspiring English sources

In 1626 a squadron of three ships were bought and equipped.

A storm in early February damaged some of Arbuthnot's fleet, which prompted Destouches to send a squadron of three ships south shortly after.

Contre-Admiral Charles-Alexandre Durand Linois was ordered to the Indian Ocean in his flagship Marengo in March 1803 accompanied by a squadron of three frigates, shortly before the end of the Peace of Amiens.

The Action of 9 November 1822 was a naval battle fought between the United States Navy schooner and a squadron of three piratical schooners off the coast of Cuba during the US Navy's West Indies Anti-Piracy Operation.

At 19.00 on 16 February 1918 the offices of the Third Bureau on Algiers Street in Compiègne were hit by a bomb from a squadron of three German bombers.

In June 1801, a squadron of three ships of the line that had been detached from the Egyptian squadron departed Toulon for Cadiz under the command of Contre-Admiral Charles Linois.

Wilkes departed in August 1838 with a squadron of six ships, compared with the two each of Ross and d'Urville.

In 1637 a squadron of five English ships shot its way into Guangzhou and disposed of its cargoes there.

Aguigui belonged to a squadron of five hundred soldiers, of whom about eighty were stationed at Fort Stewart — the rear guard for the soldiers who had deployed to Mosul, Iraq.

Mr. Craig says the Air Force promised him seven years ago that it would station a squadron of eight C-130 cargo planes at Gowen Field, a Guard base in Boise.

Accordingly, in May of that year Nicolls sailed with a squadron of four vessels and a force of troops and blockaded the chief city of New Netherland, New Amsterdam (now New York City).