Sentence examples for command of the fleet from inspiring English sources

Scheer received command of the fleet in January 1916; he hoped to precipitate a strategic division of the British Grand Fleet and catch it at a disadvantage.

Upon Cheng Yi's death in 1807, Ching Shih took command of the fleet, which consisted of hundreds of ships and some 50,000 pirates.

"Every once in a while I'll play a 'Star Trek' video game in front of the chair and pretend I'm in command of the fleet," Mr. Sturgeon said.

Later, in 424, he was elected one of the 10 stratēgoi of the year and, because of his connections, was given command of the fleet in the Thraceward region, based at Thasos.

After Caesar's assassination, Cassius was in command of the fleet that engaged Publius Cornelius Dolabella off the coast of Asia, but after the Battle of Philippi he joined Sextus Pompeius in Sicily.

On the outbreak of war between England and the Netherlands in 1652, Blake took command of the fleet in the English Channel, losing only one of the four major engagements he fought with the Dutch admiral Maarten Tromp between May 1652 and June 1653.

Agincourt was assigned to the Channel Fleet upon her return and she became the flagship of the second-in-command of the fleet until she began a refit in 1873.

Black Prince was again refitted in 1874 75, gaining a poop deck, and rejoined the Channel Fleet as flagship of Rear Admiral Sir John Dalrymple-Hay, second-in-command of the fleet.

Nevertheless, when Collingwood moved to HMS Royal Sovereign in October 1805 as second-in-command of the fleet under Lord Nelson blockading the Franco-Spanish fleet in Cadiz, he brought Rotheram with him.

The Doge, alarmed by Norman control of the Strait of Otranto, took command of the Venetian fleet and sailed at once, surprising the Norman fleet under the command of Bohemond as night was falling.

In 1378 he was given command of the Venetian fleet, which he directed to victory over the Genoan fleet at the Capo d'Anzio (May 1378).