Sentence examples for defeated off from inspiring English sources

The French did make further attempts to resupply the islands; a major expedition was defeated off Guadeloupe in April, and elements of this force that reached the island were defeated and captured during June and July.

His opportunity seemed to come in 1435, after the deaths of Louis III of Anjou and Queen Joan II, but while blockading the port of Gaeta, a key citadel from which to launch an attack on Naples, he was defeated off the island of Ponza by a Genoese squadron.

On 29 December 1812 Constitution defeated off the coast of Brazil and Java was burned after the Americans determined she could not be salvaged.

The Action of 26 April 1797 was a minor naval engagement during the French Revolutionary Wars in which a Spanish convoy of two frigates was trapped and defeated off the Spanish town of Conil de la Frontera by British ships of the Cadiz blockade.

United picked up their first league win since early August as they defeated an off-colour Ross County 1-0 with Billy McKay's late penalty at Tannadice.

Together with the Venetians, he initially prevailed over the Norman fleet, but the joint fleet was caught off guard and defeated by the Normans off Corfu in 1084.

"It was just …" the voice trails off, defeated by the magnitude of what happened.

Darren Fletcher was the only United player to score and Moyes once again cut a dejected figure as he walked off defeated at the end.

One way that many defeated candidates profit off their loss is through higher speaking fees.

In the ensuing Battle of Coronel on 1 November, the British squadron was defeated; Nürnberg finished off the British cruiser.

Then the wall broke up, the defeated drifting off one by one to descend back into individual despair.