When Prince Dom Pedro (later Emperor Dom Pedro I), son and heir of King João VI, led the movement for the independence of Brazil, Joaquim Inácio was one of several Portuguese-born residents who sided with the Brazilian cause and joined the armada (as the Brazilian Navy was called in the imperial era).
A young boy remembers joining the fight against the Spanish Armada in 1588.
Is it any wonder that Assad's allies are on full offensive — Hezbollah brazenly joining the ground war, Russia sending a small armada and mountains of military materiel, Iran warning everyone to stay out?
Independent labels and aggregators INgrooves, CD Baby, Dim Mak and DashGo led the way in April, TuneCore, Naxos, Black Hole Recordings and Armand Van Buuren's Armada Records are now joining the music library, covering a wide range of genres from classical music (Naxos) to trance (Black Hole Recordings).
As a result, an armada of new ships is joining the world's fleets just as the rate of growth of world trade may be slowing.
Older son Shapoor, runs the family's legacy arm which is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, Shapoor joined the board of Bumi Armada, the Malaysian offshore oilfield services provider, owned by Malaysian billionaire Ananda Krishnan, amid talk that Krishnan may be looking to take the company private.
Vázquez was born in Spain — in a small Galician village called Armada — before his parents joined the wave of emigration to Argentina after the Spanish Civil War.
The notion of a phantom slave ship joining New York's armada of tourist attractions is provocative and funny, but many in the audience may still feel that on some level they've been there, done that and bought the T-shirt.
Liberty Weekend A procession of tall ships joined an armada of mighty warships in New York Harbor and an enormous fireworks show turned the night sky to blazing color in a salute to the Fourth of July and the centennial of a rekindled Statue of Liberty.
We joined a vast armada of ships of all nations, all shapes and sizes, some lying anchor, some bustling busily about.
