About a mile offshore the flotilla came to anchor.
Every time she looked across at the great flotilla of ships to port and starboard, fore and aft, her sense of security grew stronger.
Some of his flotilla escaped and some were captured, but he himself, after fighting four hours, ran his remaining vessels ashore, set them on fire with their flags flying, and escaped with their crews through the forests to Ticonderoga.
The defences of the river prevented the fleet from approaching, and the day after the occupation an attempt was made by the American flotilla to cannonade the city.
Carleton, as active as his adversary, had built at St. Johns a flotillaof "thirty fighting vessels.
For the same flotillathat brought Hortense brought all M.
Inviting a canoe to show us the way, a smallflotilla of canoes preceded us, from the sheer curiosity of their owners.
Transports, veneered with railroad iron and protected upon the outer edges with bales of hay and cotton, were loaded with supplies and started upon their way preceded by a flotilla of gunboats.
After a long and trying experience in marching through swamps and cane-brakes, they arrived at that place where a large force of infantry and artillery and a flotilla of twenty-five gunboats had assembled.
This year, however, saw the annihilation of the Spanish flotilla which attempted to surprise the island of Tholen.
For in November a requisition went up to the Council of State for the flotilla of flat-bottomed boats which the contemplated operation required.
As early as the middle of April part of the flotilla had arrived, and Monk had made an attack on Burntisland.
Perry was twenty-seven years old, and was given command of a flotillaon Lake Erie, provided he would cut the timber and build it, meantime boarding himself.
Fort Pillow was abandoned by the Southern forces, and the Confederate flotilla was destroyed in front of Memphis.
The defeat of the British Flotillaby the Americans in September, 1814.
It was the shot from one of the French batteries which, now that the boats were within some hundred yards, opened on the flotilla suddenly.
This was a day for cold steel, and the thought of that, the determination to get up to those batteries, to fling the French back and punish those who had fired at the flotilla alone filled the minds of the men.
General Wolfe, seeing the narrowness of the beach, its difficult approach, and the batteries which commanded it, had signalled for the flotilla of boats to retire at once, for he was fearful of losing his men.
I rather think I saw him signal to the whole flotilla to retire.
The destroyers are generally organized and operate in little groups or flotillas of perhaps twenty or so with a small cruiser or a flotilla leader as a flagship, on which is the officer in command of them all.
The flotilla leaders are what one might call super-destroyers, about double the size of the ordinary large destroyer, which is to say, about two thousand tons, and capable of very high speed.
The last two miles of the journey are made through a flotilla of shipping, a bewildering medley of sailing vessels and steamers, flying the flags of all the maritime nations of the earth--all but the Stars and Stripes of Uncle Sam.
The good behavior of the babies of the sampan flotilla is always appreciated by visiting mothers whose nurse-maids at home have difficulty in keeping their young from crying their lungs out.
Commissioner Sussy had his arm broken on the flotilla by a shot as he was pointing out Cairo.
On the sixth, Rosetta was taken, and whilst the flotilla was being mobilised, the army prepared to march on Cairo.
On the 12th the flotilla reached Rosetta, under command of Perrée, chief of the division.
We know how thatflotilla was driven by the wind faster than the army could march, that it was attacked by the Turkish fleet and fired at from both banks of the Nile by the fellahs.
Come you back to Mandalay, Where the old Flotilla lay: Can't you 'ear their paddles chunkin' from Rangoon to Mandalay?
Then a fleet of steamers conveyed the troops up the noble river; while in 1824 a solitary steamer was all that India could furnish, to aid the flotilla of rowboats.
It was to be carried in a flotilla of sixty-two boats, each armed with one or two guns; and the boats of all the ships of war at Rangoon, under the command of Captain Alexander, R.
On the 27th the flotillaentered the main stream and, the next day, the advance came in sight of Donabew.
General Cotton commanded the main attack and, soon after the column moved out from the camp, a tremendous cannonade showed that the flotilla was engaged with the Burmese, on both sides of the river.
While the attack had been going on, the flotilla had passed the works protecting the river face of the hills, and had captured all the boats and stores, filled with supplies for the use of the Burmese army.
As soon as the steamer with the flotilla came up, two war boats pushed off from shore, saluted the steamer, and rowed alongside of her until she and the flotilla were safely anchored above the town.
They then marched round and attacked these in flank and rear, while the batteries and boats of the flotilla cannonaded them in front.
The one steamboat kept, at the start, in rear of the great flotilla of boats so that, in case of any of them striking on a sandbank, it could at once move to her assistance, and pull her off.
On the 24th the heights of Prome, eight miles away, were visible; and the flotilla could be seen, lying at anchor a short distance below the town.
A division of theflotilla of gunboats was ordered up the creek by the town.
The flotilla were to open a furious cannonade upon their works, on both sides of the river.
That fortress was on the point of capitulating when a French flotilla of seven sail, carrying from twenty to thirty guns each, and laden with stores and provisions, was descried[b] stealing along the shore to its relief.
But one of the flotilla had not turned with the rest.
It succeeded, for the flotilla was attacked by several.
She went her way, and, seeing nothing of her sisters, picked up another flotilla and stayed with it till the end.
A flotilla of our destroyers sighted six (there had been eight the previous afternoon) German battleships of Kingly and Imperial caste very early in the morning of the 1st June, and duly attacked.
This much information concerning his sister's present surroundings Donald Hester gained at Fort Schlosser, from which place the flotilla had departed six days before his own arrival.
The flotilla came up at night; and at sunrise, as the sea of fog covering the vicinity of Detroit began to roll away in fleecy masses, its foremost boats were discovered by a sentinel, who at once announced the joyful intelligence.
A dim light showed on the bow of the submarine as the little flotilla approached; and then so suddenly that the night appeared to be lighted up by magic, a flare of white made the boats approaching the submarine as plain as day.
No submarines were sighted, and at last the flotilla reached the point where the destroyers were to leave the homeward bound transports to pursue their voyage alone.
Frank's voice repeated the command and the little flotilla advanced no more.
The rear-admiral commanding the Harwich force sent a flotilla leader and six destroyers, besides protecting the northern flank of the area in which operations were to be conducted.
Then the American flotilla slowed down and swung to leeward, and took its places in the long line.
Besides these, a flotilla of twenty-four motor launches and eight coastal motorboats were told off for rescue work and to make smoke screens or lay smoke floats, and nine more coastal motorboats to attack the Mole and enemy vessels inside it.
Heading the great British flotilla that moved out to sea again was the super-dreadnaught the Queen Elizabeth, Admiral Beatty's flagship, aboard which were King George and Queen Mary, as they had been the day before.
With the coming of morning, the flotilla was divided.
At the sound of the great gun on the British warship Lion, the German admiral in command of the flotilla ordered his ships to slow down.
The message, in code, was this: "Authentic informationflotilla submarines headed for America.
The first flotilla to be composed of twenty-seven vessels.
So the flotilla moved out again and took up the positions they had held the day before.
These latter were the Tibania and the Serra Venta, which accompanied the flotilla to take the submarine crews back to Germany.
There was one brief halt while the German admiral in command of the flotilla went aboard Admiral Tyrwhitt's flagship to make formal surrender of the submarines.
The German fleet that approached now came much more swiftly than had the flotilla of undersea craft.
From Ramanieh the French army continued its advance upon Cairo, and keeping always within touch of the west bank of the Nile, was accompanied by the flotilla laden with the stores and provisions.
This having been done the work of preparing a flotilla for the ascent of the Nile was carried on with the utmost despatch.
The presence of a numerous torpedo-boat flotilla in the rear of the battleship division, and the scouting planes overheard, made it a matter of extreme risk for R19 to draw within effective torpedo range.
Barnacle, an obsolete cruiser employed as a parent ship to the submarine flotilla of the Otherport Division.
Hailed she was repeatedly; but there was no cause for alarm, since boats of the flotilla were constantly passing.
These orders were promptly executed, and, having seen the flotilla of boats well on its way, R19's crew set to work to destroy the prizes.
In every attack on the Russian flotilla he had the advantage, and he eventually landed General Count Wachtmeister with 7,000 troops near Umeö.
The news of the triumph of the British squadron over the Russian flotilla occasioned great rejoicing in Sweden, and inspired the nation with new spirit and courage: congratulations were sent from all quarters.
Part of the Boulogne flotilla was lying in the harbour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flotilla" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: argosy; armada; division; fleet; flotilla; line; marine; navy; shipping; squadron; tonnage
