Sentence examples for embarked the first from inspiring English sources

At 01 00 on 25 April the British ships stopped at sea, and thirty-six rowing boats towed by twelve steamers embarked the first six companies, two each from the 9th, 10th and 11th Battalions.

She was docked for maintenance in October, and embarked the First Sea Lord, Admiral Rhoderick McGrigor and the Commander-in-Chief, Far East Station for a tour of Commonwealth forces in Japan.

I embarked on the first of countless debates with my conscience.

In 1842, he embarked on the first of many foreign tours.

Nonetheless, pitting himself against Ross and d'Urville, he embarked on the first Antarctic race.

Vlad then embarked upon the first of a lifelong series of campaigns to regain his father's seat.

In 2011, we embarked on the first of four trips to Juba, the soon-to-be capital of South Sudan.

On the weekend of the event, Saunders and Stark set up the camera and a Sega CD system, and embarked on the first leg of the virtual journey.

The iPads had embarked on the first leg of a journey that would ironically return them to the country where they were assembled in the first place.

Only the Guardian is absolved, in his view, as the paper has embarked on the first empirical study of the riots in collaboration with the London School of Economics.

In doing so, they embarked on the first global scientific collaboration in history and answered the pressing question of the size of the solar system.