Sentence examples for fleet lieutenant from inspiring English sources

Those fooled included Lieutenant General Sir John Kiszely, president of the Royal British Legion; Lord Dannatt, former head of the army; Admiral Trevor Soar, former head of the Royal Navy fleet; Lieutenant General Richard Applegate, a former head of procurement at the Ministry of Defence; Lord Stirrup, former chief of the defence staff, and General Sir Mike Jackson, former head of the army.

In 1780, a fleet with 6,000 troops commanded by Lieutenant General Jean-Baptiste, comte de Rochambeau landed at Newport, Rhode Island, and shortly afterwards the fleet was blockaded by the British.

In 1659 he was made a knight of St. Mark and given a pension for life, and in 1660 he became lieutenant admiral of the Venetian fleet.

Two hundred and sixty years ago this month a swashbuckling Yorkshireman known as Lieutenant Colonel Robert Monckton led a fleet of warships containing 270 English troops across Atlantic waters and into the mouth of the Missaguash river.

When the Balkan Wars broke out in October 1912, these airplanes performed a number of reconnaissance and bombing missions; the most notable was a sortie against the Ottoman fleet anchorage in the Dardanelles, where First Lieutenant Michael Moutoussis and Ensign Aristeidis Moraitinis spotted the Ottoman fleet and dropped four bombs.

Lieutenant Stephanie Murdock, a spokeswoman for the fleet, said that task force's composition was "fluid," but it averages four ships, currently from the United States, Denmark, Turkey and Britain.

By Russell Maloney The New Yorker, March 6, 1943 P. 11 A young lieutenant on duty with the Pacific fleet writes us that he was a member of a party that went ashore on a far-flung coral atoll.

William Pryce Cumby, Bellerophons first lieutenant, was first in the main fleet to spot the signal, flying from the last ship in the communication link, HMS Mars.

He instructed his signal officer, Lieutenant John Pasco, to signal to the fleet, as quickly as possible, the message "England confides [i.e. is confident] that every man will do his duty".

After fighting at the Battle of Pea Ridge, Ark., he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and joined Charles's ram fleet as an aide-de-camp.

Admiral Destouches, who arrived in Newport, Rhode Island in July 1780 with a fleet transporting 5,500 soldiers, was encouraged by Washington and French Lieutenant General Rochambeau to move his fleet south, and launch a joint land-naval attack on Arnold's troops.