Sentence examples for armada to from inspiring English sources

In 1982, she sent an armada to fight the Argentines in the Falkland Islands.

The boy from Barnsley sank the Spanish Armada – to a deafening chorus of cat-calls.

And I taught a class on the Spanish Armada to a primary school".

In 1588, the Spanish crown, in no small part due to its frustration with English piracy, resorted to massive retaliation, sending its armada to overthrow Queen Elizabeth.

The exhibits are curated into the marvellous muddle of historic buildings that range through Tudor, Stuart and Georgian eras, and which supported the Royal Navy right through from the Spanish Armada to the Falklands War.

It built a containment system for the Arctic modeled on the one that successfully capped the BP well and added ships and equipment to the armada to be in place to capture any spilled oil.

In 1982, as Thatcher sent her mini-armada to the South Atlantic, Washington was reluctant to help.

YC would no longer waft explorers out to sea in rickety ships but launch ironclad armadas to claim an empire.

Captain Morgan used to live on this island and wait for the Spanish Armadas to sail by on their way back to Spain for South America laden with jewels and gold and raid the galleons.

Medal awarded to the army, armada and to civil servants in operations in the Paraguayan War (1870).

Meanwhile Taiwan's navy dispatched frigates to the country's north-eastern coast and scrambled warplanes, such as F-16s and Mirages, to monitor the civilian armada, according to a statement issued by the defence ministry on September 26th.