To carry on the war with Spain a powerful fleet of eighty English and Dutch ships was fitted out under the command of Cecil, afterwards created Viscount Wimbleton.
The admiral sailed from Spithead early in June, 1759, with a powerful fleet to cruise off Brest and in soundings.
When threatened with an invasion of England by the Earl of Richmond, he kept a powerful fleet in readiness to defend the shores of his kingdom.
Vice-Admiral Anson, who had returned from his voyage to the Pacific, was now placed in command of a powerful fleet, and sent to cruise on the coast of France.
A powerful fleet, under the brave and vigilant Boscawen, swept the Atlantic coast, insulted her eastern harbors, and captured her re-enforcements and supplies.
Ethelred, by the advice of his council, employed the money in fitting out a powerful fleet, the command of which was given to Brihric, the brother of the new Alderman of Mercia.
The two kings, with a powerful fleet, sailed up the Thames, with the intention of making themselves masters of London.
The Norwegian king made his appearance with a powerful fleet at the mouth of the Tyne, and there Tostig joined him with the remnants of his former expedition.
Germany must have a powerful fleet to protect that commerce and her manifold interests in even the most distant seas.
Only those Powers which have great navies will be listened to with respect, when the future of the Pacific comes to be solved; and if for that reason only, Germany must have a powerful fleet.
If England is not in the minds of those Germans who are bent on creating a powerful fleet, why is Germany asked to consent to such new and heavy burdens of taxation?
The king was fitting out a powerful fleet to carry the war to the coasts of Sweden, and for its equipment had commanded a reinforcement of men and provisions to be sent from Dunkirk.
That base must be either home ports, or else some solid outpost of the national power, on the shore or the sea; a distant dependency or a powerful fleet.
The presence of a powerful fleet in Greek waters, and Memnon's almost unlimited command of Persian gold, might in a short time have raised such a flame in Greece as to necessitate Alexander's return in order to extinguish it.
The great desideratum--the one condition of success--was the possession of a powerful fleet.
He recounts how Pharnabazus and Konon came across the Ægean with a powerful fleet in the spring of 393 B.
As soon as spring arrived, Pharnabazus embarked on board a powerful fleet equipped by Konon; directing his course to Melos, to various islands among the Cyclades, and lastly to the coast of Peloponnesus.
In conclusion, his Majesty dwelt upon the importance to Germany of a powerful fleet.
As will be plain later, he early conceived the idea and realized the necessity of a powerful fleet.
But if a large army took this long and circuitous route, it must be supported by a powerful fleet; and this involved a new danger.
It induced Darius even to give up the notion of maintaining a powerful fleet, and to transfer to the land service the most efficient of his naval forces.
Germany must have a powerful fleet to protect that commerce, and her manifold interests in even the most distant seas.
Only those Powers which have great navies will be listened to with respect when the future of the Pacific comes to be solved; and if for that reason only Germany must have a powerful fleet.
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