Sentence examples for fleet battle from inspiring English sources

This reinforced German determination not to engage in a fleet to fleet battle.

The first fleet battle, and the first ocean battle, involving ironclad warships was the Battle of Lissa in 1866.

Towards the end of the fleet battle on the evening of 31 May, the five Deutschland-class ships came to the aid of the mauled battlecruisers of the I Scouting Group.

Battlecruisers served in the navies of Britain, Germany, the Ottoman Empire, Australia and Japan during World War I, most notably at the Battle of the Falkland Islands and in the several raids and skirmishes in the North Sea which culminated in a pitched fleet battle, the Battle of Jutland.

San Domingo was the last fleet battle of the Wars to be fought in open water; the only subsequent engagement between fleets was the Battle of Basque Roads, fought in the narrow, shallow waters at the mouth of the Charente River.

CAMPER crossed the finish line first, with the rest of the fleet battling for the other two podium positions.

The fleets battled off Grenada, with d'Estaing prevailing over Byron's disorganized attack.

The two fleets battled the next day, with the French severely damaging several British ships.

After resuming the offensive, Tran engaged the Mongol fleet in battle at the mouth of the Bach Dang River in 1288.

Anticipating war with Spain, he undertook an intensive study of the Spanish-owned Philippine Islands and prepared his fleet for battle.

The naval historian Kenneth J. Hagan, writing in The New York Times, called the memoir "the finest primer on how to lead a fleet into battle since Adm. Horatio Nelson wrote his instructions to his captains on the eve of Trafalgar".