Sentence examples for gunboat attack from inspiring English sources

The glorious strength of Rosie Sayer had survived a trip down a crocodile-infested river and a German gunboat attack, but no amount of pluck could see Hepburn through the American fifties with her dignity intact.

Congress gave Johnson authority to wage the war on the basis of a North Vietnamese gunboat attack, but on the tapes, the president told his secretary of defense "we concluded maybe they hadn't fired at all".

Instead, he used the Gulf of Tonkin resolution -- passed in 1964, in response to reports of a North Vietnamese gunboat attack that Johnson was not even sure were accurate -- as the justification for his own authority to prosecute the war.

The incident occurred in disputed waters, and one supposed gunboat attack never really happened.

In Gaza, where Mr. Mubarak's decision was hailed as overdue, Palestinian officials assessed the material damage from Israel's helicopter and gunboat attacks on police and military targets.

Four days later, Calabria and the gunboat attacked a quarantine station near Perim.

While on patrol with the 64-gun and the frigate, Temeraire became involved in one of the heaviest Danish gunboat attacks of the war.

She went out to the Baltic in 1809, defending convoys against Danish gunboat attacks, and by 1810 was off the Spanish coast again, helping to defend Cadiz against a French army.

3 11:46 a.m.--Iranian gunboats attack Willi Tide, U.S.-owned oil field supply ship; it is slightly damaged.

The Johnson Administration responded by claiming inaccurately that North Vietnamese gunboats attacked a US ship in international waters near the Gulf of Tonkin.

On Friday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) resumed its offensive with aircraft, tanks and gunboats, attacking some 35 targets.