Athenian armamentof two hundred galleys was engaged in a bold though unsuccessful expedition against Egypt.
The first armament sent for this purpose was shattered by shipwreck, and nearly destroyed off Mount Athos, But the purpose of King Darius was not easily shaken.
The armament was voted and equipped, and sailed eastward from Attica, no one but Miltiades knowing its destination, until the Greek isle of Paros was reached, when his true object appeared.
In the sea-ports of the Mediterranean, and along almost the whole coast from Gibraltar to Jutland, the preparations for the great armament were urged forward with all the earnestness of religious zeal, as well as of angry ambition.
The Athenians send a powerful armament to aid the Egyptians, which, after gaining some successes, is destroyed, and Egypt submits.
For some time the destination of the enormous armament of Philip was not publicly announced.
His pretext, as general of the Athenians, was, that the Parians had aided the armament of Datis with a war-galley.
Here he halted three days; and the Cilician queen, according to the popular account, begged Cyrus to exhibit his armament for her amusement.
This done, Cyrus proceeded to cross; and in his wake followed the rest of the armament to a man.
In this way, again, anarmament was being secretly maintained for Cyrus.
Mutton means armed; that is to say the Scotian and the Arran took an armament on board at some point south of England, as indicated by the fact that the intelligence comes from Warnock.
The agent thinks it is possible that the Scotian and Arran will meet some vessel to the southward of the Isle of Wight that will put an armament on board of them.
Warnock reported that she had taken her armament on board from another vessel at some point south of England, and the colors also assured Christy that the steamer was one of the pair expected.
The armament of the infantry is the model 1898 magazine rifle and bayonet (see RIFLE).
The exact amount of armament and munitions allowed Germany is laid down in detail tables, all in excess to be surrendered or rendered useless.
The military armament of all ships of the auxiliary fleet shall be put on shore.
Within three months the armament of the Austrian army must be reduced according to detailed schedules, and all surplus surrendered.
In the matter of armament the South, though not exactly advantageously placed, was at the beginning not so badly off as it might well have been.
A formidable French armament was able to cross the Atlantic.
The appearance of so formidable an armamentin the West Indies caused a great deal of concern both in England and in Jamaica.
He afterwards joined the Curaçao armament of Mansfield and was with the latter when he seized the island of Providence.
In the autumn of 1585 Drake was again in command of a formidable armamentintended against the West Indies.
Morgan, with very inadequate means, accomplished a feat which had been the dream of Drake and other English sailors for a century or more, and which Admiral Vernon in 1741 with a much greater armament feared even to attempt.
There were at least three Morgans then in the West Indies, but Colonel Edward and Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas were at this time doubtless busy preparing the armament against Curaçao.
The last of the great privateering voyages for which Drake had set the example was the armament which Lord George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, sent against Porto Rico in 1598.
When Cortes heard of the arrival of this armament and its object which was to punish him for his supposed rebellion, he marched from Mexico, leaving the little garrison and the person of Montezuma in charge of his comrade Alvarado.
Off this coast of America his little armament was augmented by an English bark, with thirty men on board; so that, deducting those whom it was necessary to leave in charge of the ships, his available force fell short of a hundred men.
Let it be an armament that can act offensively, and which will not flee, but seek out the enemy.
Olaf and Onund King of Sweden, whose sister he had married, well guessed whither this armament was bound.
Beyond doubt a powerful Norse-pirate armament dropt anchor at the Red Head, to the alarm of peaceable mortals, about that time.
The climate of this part of America is, at certain seasons, far from healthy; and the prevalence of dysentery through the armament proved that the unhealthy season had already commenced.
The attack upon New Orleans was professedly a secret expedition; so secret, indeed, that it was not communicated to the inferior officers and soldiers in the armament till immediately previous to our quitting Jamaica.
In spite of our losses there were not throughout the armament a sufficient number of boats to transport above one-half of the army at a time.
The World War had not yet begun, nor had the staggering burdens of modern armament become evident.
The executive, endowed with unlimited powers, made a levy en masse on the whole able-bodied population, another armament was fitted out and at length Trieste fell.
Venice truly had long foreseen the danger, and had kept a great armament in the Bosphorus to watch events.
After devastating Chios, Lesbos and Rhodes they reached Cyprus, where news came that a Saracen armament was off Jaffa.
Giustiniani turned back, and his littlearmament was saved.
In 1645 a huge armament left the Bosphorus, ostensibly for Malta, actually for the conquest of Crete.
Pisani and his lieutenant, Quirini, escaped with the remnant of the armament to be impeached and degraded in Venice.
The enemy were outmanoeuvred, their armament utterly destroyed, and Grimaldi, with a few shattered galleys, reached Genoa crushed and humiliated.
They repented of their anger, and ordered Phokion himself to take a second armament and proceed to the assistance of their allies on the Hellespont.
They declared loudly that the original mistake was about to be repeated, and the first terror-stricken impression of the armament frittered away, until familiarity with the sight of it had bred contempt in the breasts of their enemies.
Matters were in this posture when Demosthenes was descried in the offing, approaching with a splendid armament which struck terror into the hearts of the enemy.
Soliman listened to their complaints and promised that soon he would send forth an armament which should put an end to the misfortunes from which they were suffering.
I must refer my reader to the first section of my little book upon Crecy in this series; as also for the armament and organisation of the forces that served the English crown.
When it was replaced by firearms, the British Islands and their population dropped out of the running in land armament for two hundred years.
The report of Napoleon's conciliatory attitude had gone abroad, there was money in the treasury, a vast armament was prepared, the peace so ardently desired was evidently to be such as is made by the lion with his prey.
The Lords of the Admiralty, wedded to old notions, unlike the Heads of the Naval Department of the United States, were slow to alter the build or armament of the national ships.
Nor were the disasters of the Duke d'Anville's armament yet over.
Captain Dacres now fully aware of the size, armament and sailing powers of his opponent, wore repeatedly, broadsides being as repeatedly exchanged.
