What they dreaded was not a defeat in the Palatinate, but the cutting off of their fleets from the Indies and a war in that new world which they treasured as the fairest flower of their crown.
The junction of their fleets would at once enable them to challenge the right of dominion which England claimed over the Channel.
Thus equipped, the two fleets came together in the month of September, and an epoch-making battle in the history of the ancient continent of Asia was fought.
Both countries concerned had fleetson the Adriatic.
In February, 1904, Japan withdrew her minister from the capital of Russia and three days later, without the formality of a declaration of war, attacked the Russian fleets at Chemulpo and Port Arthur.
In February, 1904, Japan withdrew her minister from St. Petersburg and three days later, without the formality of a declaration of war, attacked the Russian fleets at Chemulpo and Port Arthur and landed troops in Korea.
He also caused three seuerall fleets to be prepared, and appointed to them three sundrie admerals, for the better keeping of the seas.
Meantime a great man came at last to the head of affairs in England, and inspired by William Pitt, fleets and armies went forth to conquer.
Every French ship that could be reached must be in the Chesapeake, and Washington had had too many French fleets slip away from him at the last moment and bring everything to naught to take any chances in this direction.
Promising to return, D'Estaing sailed out to give the enemy battle, and after much manoeuvring both fleets were driven off by a severe storm, and D'Estaing came back only to tell Sullivan that he must go to Boston at once to refit.
In 460 Athens sent an expedition to Egypt to assist a revolt against Persia, and even before that Greek fleets had scoured the Levant and Greek soldiers, though in the pay of Persia, had trodden the soil of Syria.
The armies of the Saracens had wrested from Christendom the western, southern, and eastern countries of the Mediterranean; their fleets dominated in that sea.
The principal topic of conversation was, of course, the effect which the starting of the works would produce on the Northern Hemisphere in general and the fleets and armies of Europe in particular.
All fighting, however, save under a war-tax of a dollar per head per week of men engaged in armies and fleets would be prohibited.
At a distance of five thousand miles we have paralysed the fleets and armies of Europe.
We have paralysed the fleets and armies of a continent, and the warships of Europe are now resting motionless in dockyards or lying as wrecks on the sands and rocks of the coasts.
Fancy the fleets of Russia and France and Germany laid up like so many worn-out hulks.
Great fleets and squadrons were either drifting about the ocean or lying helpless on rock or sand or mud-bank, like the silenced forts full of guns and ammunition and yet unable to fire a single shot either in attack or defence.
Commerce with Portugal and Spain was long confined to yearly fairs and occasional trading fleets that plied between fixed points.
The operations of their fleets and the resistance of Montevideo had lowered the prestige of the dictator and had raised the hopes of the Unitaries that a last desperate effort might shake off his hated control.
I daily expect to hear of an engagement between the English and French fleets as we have heard several accounts of their being seen in sight of each other.
It is expected, whenever these two fleets meet, there will be a bloody engagement, for England’s chief dependence is in her fleet.
On the water, also, the National fleets were supreme.
Once that position was obtained, the Fleets were ordered to separate, and two other officers respectively took charge of the opposing squadrons.
So the British and American fleets steamed out to sea while the Spaniards fired upon Valparaiso from eight in the morning until four in the afternoon, setting the place on fire, and then retired to their anchorage outside.
The British and American fleets then returned to the Bay, and I accompanied a landing-party to help to extinguish the conflagration.
Many a delightful day have I had with the midshipmen of the ships and fleets in which I have served.
I wrote home, suggesting that, as Captain Percy Scott had solved the difficulties with which we were all struggling it would be advisable to send him to the various Fleets and Squadrons to teach us the right methods.
The regattas held in different fleets and squadrons had become yearly events keenly looked forward to by both officers and men.
The Home, Channel and Mediterranean Fleets were instructed to act in concert, a detachment of the Mediterranean Fleet being ordered to reinforce the Channel Fleet at Gibraltar.
An order was issued under which ships taken from the Channel, Atlantic and Mediterranean Fleets for purposes of refitting, were to be replaced during their absence by ships from the Home Fleet.
I asked for a return of the relative strength of the Fleets of this and other countries; which was granted; and which aroused considerable comment in the Press.
Three fleets arrived, vessels of the main, three powerful fleets of the first rate, furiously to attack him on a sudden.
The storm damaged both fleets equally, and each commander sought a harbor as best he could; Howe at New York, and D'Estaing at Newport.
As the reader has seen, the fleets from Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Philadelphia were also large.
A gale coming on, both fleets sought sea-room and were widely scattered, so that little fighting took place except as opposing vessels chanced to come together.
The position of the English and French fleets immediately previous to the Action on the 5th of Sept.
For some days the fleets continued within view of each other, after which De Grasse returned to his moorings within the capes.
Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation?
She is another pride, another consolation, for a great country whose mighty fleets have all vanished, and which has almost forgotten, what it is to fly its flag to sea.
As they are effaced from the land, he fleets too; a part of the same manifestation, which cannot linger behind its proper era.
One of these English fleets was attacked by the Spanish in the Gulf of Mexico, and three of the vessels were captured.
Twill carry fleetsof them one day, Du Mesne," replied John Law.
The tramp of troops echoed in the streets, and the fleets of Britain made ready to carry her sons over seas for wars and for adventures.
Soft as thy consort's breath, inspire thy sails; Well may she trust her beauties on a flood Where thy triumphant fleets so oft have rode.
When the news arrived that the combined fleets of England and Spain, amounting to one hundred and sixty sails, had made the port of Southampton, the queen was at Windsor Castle.
Russia and Turkey keep fleets in it, but other warships are excluded.
Attica, the strait between which and the mainland was the scene of a naval victory over the armament of Xerxes by the combined fleets of Athens, Sparta, and Corinth in 480 B.
English Channel; famous for a naval engagement between the allied English and Dutch fleets and those of France, in which the latter were successful.
It is, however, in the Attic trireme such as composed the fleets of Phormio and Conon that historical interest has centred, and though quinqueremes were commonly in use in the second and third centuries, B.
The Spaniards will likewise consider, that they have not harassed their subjects for the protection of their trade; that they have not fitted out fleets only to amuse the populace.
Nor, in my opinion, ought those who have hitherto been pressed into our fleets to be discouraged from their duty by an exclusion from the same advantage.
They have suffered the Spanish fleets to sail first for supplies from one port to another, and then from the coasts of Spain to those of America.
Without a navy it was ridiculous to declare the British Isles in a state of blockade, whilst the English fleets were in fact blockading all the French ports.
The English fleets not only blockaded the French ports, but were acting on the offensive, and had bombarded Granville.
Consequently it will happen that the trading fleets (from Spain) will bring less wine every year, and what is brought will be more valuable every year.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fleets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
