Sentence examples for navy fought from inspiring English sources

On 18 August 1588, after the dispersal of the armada, naval commander Lord Henry Seymour wrote to Walsingham, "you have fought more with your pen than many have in our English navy fought with their enemies".

The Navy fought his request hard, in much the same way that the Army contested the conscientious objector application of Capt.

("You have fought more with your pen than many in our English navy fought with their enemies," declared Sir Francis Drake).

While combat and service components of the Departments of the Army and the Navy fought together in various theatres of operation under unified direction of overseas commanders, the individual military departments reported separately to the president.

So we'll see.'' Then Mr. McCain arrived at a theater in downtown Meridian, where he pivoted from talking about the current war to the wars decades ago that his father and grandfather, both admirals in the Navy, fought, and how their examples molded him.

Over the next 20 years, the Navy fought the French Navy in the Quasi-War (1798 99), Barbary states in the First and Second Barbary Wars, and the British in the War of 1812.

Their navies fought skirmishes there in 1999 and 2002.

The two navies fought skirmishes in 1999, 2002 and 2009.

The two Korean navies fought skirmishes around the disputed border in 1999, 2002 and in November.

The two navies fought skirmishes in the area in 1999, 2002 and 2009.

Using detailed full colour artwork, this book shows how the Dutch navies fought worldwide in their war of independence, from Brazil to Indonesia, and from the Low Countries to Angola.