Sentence examples for fleet war from inspiring English sources

She cruised to the Caribbean and took part in fleet war games between January and May 1916, and in addition served intermittently with the Neutrality patrol.

Meanwhile, Sir Francis Drake had undertaken a major voyage against Spanish ports and ships to the Caribbean in 1585 and 1586, and in 1587 had made a successful raid on Cadiz, destroying the Spanish fleet of war ships intended for the Enterprise of England: Philip II had decided to take the war to England.

As such he was charged with readying the fleet for war.

A standing army and a fleet of war canoes were organized under the command of a general and an admiral.

The decision to move the fleet to war stations on 28 July, a week before the German entry into Belgium, was a further potentially escalating step, for this measure, together with official assurances to France, encouraged the policy-makers in St Petersburg to believe that Britain would not shrink from supporting them in the event of a Russian war against Austria-Hungary in the east.

She also organized a fleet of war galleys and got them scattered at various strategic points along the Nile.

Anyway, he's still talking about natural gas, but maybe we should just tap him, and at least have enough Newtonium to fill our fleet of War Zeppelins.

On 29 July she sailed to the fleet's war station at Scapa Flow and began the patrols and training exercises that constituted the greater part of her service after the declaration of war on 4 August.

The same distinction was made between flags for the naval war fleet and the civilian fleet.

At that lowest point of his fortunes, Cochrane accepted (May 1817) the invitation of Chile to command its fleet in the war of independence against Spain.

China has long wanted to create a force capable of thwarting the intervention of America's Pacific fleet in any war over Taiwan.