Sentence examples for superior naval from inspiring English sources
However eagerly Tirpitz may have wanted the high-seas fleet to go into action in World War I, he was forced to realize that, given the vastly superior naval strength of the Allies, his policy of naval deterrence had failed and that the conditions for a decision at sea were unfavourable to Germany.
In the long term, analysts say, China's economic ties with Central Asia could liberate it from any concern that the United States could use its superior naval power to enforce a sea blockade, should relations ever deteriorate to the point of confrontation.
The triumph of the North, above and beyond its superior naval forces, numbers, and industrial and financial resources, was partly due to the statesmanship of Lincoln, who by 1864 had become a masterful political and war leader, to the pervading valour of Federal soldiers, and to the increasing skill of their officers.
He also recommended burning the city; once the British had control, it could never be recovered without a comparable or superior naval force.
He based his military policy on Themistocles' principle that Athens' predominance depends on its superior naval power and believed that the Peloponnesians were near-invincible on land.
According to a 2012 report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, an attempted blockade against Taiwan would feature China using its superior naval power to divert ships headed to Taiwan into mainland China for an "inspection".
Three years later, at the Second Battle of Terceira, Santa Cruz defeated a superior French naval squadron sent unofficially to support a rebellion in the Azores against Philip II, the Spanish king.
In 1629 the sultan's forces attacked the city in an effort to drive out the Europeans, but superior Dutch naval forces maintained the Dutch position.
Early Chola king Karikalan, son of Eelamcetcenni utilised superior Chola naval power to conquer Ceylon in the first century CE.
Convinced by false reports of superior British naval forces approaching his ship, Hans Langsdorff, the commander of the ship, ordered the vessel to be scuttled.
The Austro-Hungarians continued their strategy of serving as a fleet in being, which would tie down the now further numerically superior Allied naval forces.
