Sentence examples for french armaments from inspiring English sources

Barras sailed from Newport on 27 August with 8 ships of the line, 4 frigates, and 18 transports carrying French armaments and siege equipment.

Maxwell first gained recognition as one of the British captains involved in the successful Adriatic campaign of 1807 1814, during which he was responsible for the destruction of a French armaments convoy at the Action of 29 November 1811.

He directed the Trauen rocket program of the German Aviation Research Institute (1936 45), worked for the French armament ministry (1946 54), directed the Institute of Jet Propulsion Physics, Stuttgart (1954 63), and taught at the West Berlin Technological University (1963 64).

News sources cited said that Krauss-Maffei would most likely gain the contract, although the French might get it because of past and existing French armament contracts with Spain.

Albert Thomas was French Minister of Armament during World War I.

Guns which fired explosive or incendiary shells were a major threat to wooden ships, and these weapons quickly became widespread after the introduction of 8 inch shell guns as part of the standard armament of French and American line-of-battle ships in 1841.

With French forces and advanced European armaments and technical equipment, Nguyen Anh won decisive victories over rival claimants at Hue and Hanoi in 1802.

Reports and memoranda cover: trade with Russia; the Levant; taxation; corsair warfare; Navy archives; Mediterranean operations; expenses; French commerce in general; the armament of ships and its funding; warfare with British; treasurers; the case of La Lievende; commercial regulations for Naples based on report on trade; the Acadtmie Royale de Musique (the singer Lany's dispute).

Prinz Eugen became French property they removed the main armament for inspection and used the ship to test aerial bombardment attacks, before she was finally used as a target ship by the battleships,, and, and sunk in the Atlantic.

Everything which can be collected by way of French military elements and potentialities for armaments production must be organised wherever such elements exist.

"In the long run it is necessary to regroup European military aerospace if our companies are not to become subsidiaries of American firms," says Jean Fournet, a director of the Délégation Générale des Armaments (DGA), which runs French procurement.