Sentence examples for fleet waiting from inspiring English sources

In the spring of 1798 Nelson was fit enough to rejoin the Earl of St . Vincent who assigned him to watch a French fleet waiting to embark an expeditionary force.

Harold had spent mid-1066 on the south coast with a large army and fleet waiting for William to invade.

King Harold spent the summer on the south coast with a large army and fleet waiting for William to invade, but the bulk of his forces were militia who needed to harvest their crops, so on 8 September Harold dismissed them.

Tone joined the staff of Vice-Admiral Jan de Winter on his flagship Vrijheid in the Texel and 13,500 Dutch troops were equipped in preparation for the operation, the fleet waiting only for the best moment to take advantage of easterly winds and sweep past the British blockade and down the English Channel.

A month-long orgy of fire, torture and pillage followed before finally, like sated locusts, the pirate hordes left, carrying their booty back down the trail to where their fleet waited on the Caribbean shore, leaving Panama City's dazed citizenry to wander amongst the ruins of what had once been their homes.

The expected attack never came: the Dutch army that was to have joined the fleet was not prepared, and Duncan's misleading signals had successfully convinced De Winter that a large British fleet waited just beyond the horizon.

For more than a week the fleet waited for a break in the storm, until Bouvet abandoned the invasion on 29 December and, after a brief and unsuccessful effort to land at the mouth of the River Shannon, ordered his scattered ships to return to Brest.

On the shingle beach, the town's colorful fishing fleet waits at low tide, surrounded by lobster pots and net.

For three days, the fleet waits, and when a ship finally retrieves Machado, the flotilla waits one more day while she and Bolívar make love.

Meanwhile, Lando, piloting the Millennium Falcon, leads the Rebel fleet to the Death Star, only to find that the station's shield is still active and the Imperial fleet is waiting for them.

Orders are finally dispatched to the huge fleet of waiting delivery vehicles.