Sentence examples for combined navies from inspiring English sources

In 1688 France had the strongest army in Europe, and its navy was larger than the combined navies of England and the United Provinces.

Although this battle was inconclusive, the Danish fleet was later annihilated by the combined navies of Sweden and Holland, and Christian was compelled to conclude a humiliating peace in August 1645 that cost him possessions in the Baltic, Norway, and Scania.

The Adriatic Sea was a minor theatre in the Napoleonic Wars; the Adriatic campaign of 1807 1814 involved the British Royal Navy contesting the Adriatic's control by the combined navies of France, Italy and the Kingdom of Naples.

Cmdr Graham Edmonds, who between 1966 and 2007 served on 10 Royal Navy warships, said a naval blockade of countries where people-smuggling was rife was practical, and added he believed the combined navies of southern Europe had the tools to do so.

If the U.S. Fifth fleet doesn't have the resource, the combined NATO navies do.

Because he wished to preserve harmony and because Stockton's men constituted the bulk of available U.S. forces, Kearny accepted the situation and led the combined army-navy command to Los Angeles, defeating the Mexicans at San Gabriel (Jan . 8 , 1847and the Mesa (January 9), thus ending the resistance.

THE People's Liberation Army PLAas, as China calls its combined army, navy and air force, is probably best known for its size (about 3m-strong, the world's largest armed force) and, as it proved in Beijing in 1989, its readiness to shoot at its own people.

Huang et al. (2011; 2012) presented an SPH model combined with Navier-Stokes equations to predict the run-out distance of the flow-like landslides triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.

**See "Debt Limit Nonsense" including Bush-appointed Secretary of Defense Gates' comment that the Navy's battle fleet "is still larger than the next 13 navies combined -- and 11 of those 13 navies are U.S. allies or partners".

More importantly, our Navy is as large as the next seven navies combined -- hardly an indication of a serious shortfall.

Even so, the mighty US Navy remains larger than the next 13 navies combined.