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Example sentences for "great naval"

  • Among them was William Penn, the son of a great naval officer, Admiral Penn.

  • Sidenote: =A great naval hero=] All night Jones and his men were kept busy fighting fire and pumping water, while the wounded were removed to the Serapis.

  • We were not in want of such a great naval establishment to make ourselves respected at home or abroad.

  • By these acquisitions, and those of the late treaty, the Bay of Fundy will become a great naval station to overawe and scourge our whole coast, from Maine to Florida.

  • It was a declaration of that Congress to their constituents and to posterity that it was the destiny and the duty of these confederated States to become in regular process of time and by no petty advances a great naval power.

  • We could not extricate our country from this unequal condition, with such an enemy, unless we at once departed from our present peaceful policy and became a great naval power.

  • When has England been at peace with all the world, since she became a great naval power?

  • Peace and tranquillity is not the natural state of a great naval power.

  • I have ever believed that the people of the United States were destined to become, at some period or other, a great naval power.

  • He was so unwise as to report that he had won a great naval victory in a general engagement with the Austrians in the waters of Lissa.

  • Out of the struggle arose the Republic of the United Provinces, and Holland, won from the sea, and almost an amphibious state, became in a few years a great naval power.

  • But it came shortly after a great naval victory, the story of which is by most forgotten.

  • Following that, came steps for the formation of a great naval base at Honolulu.

  • Charles II has also been charged with indifference to the interests of his country, or worse, because during a great naval war he adopted the plan of trying to weaken the enemy by destroying his commerce.


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