As they neared the Mardonalian border, a fleet of warships rose to contest the entry of the monster.
If they do, I should think that a fleet of warships would be necessary for every party.
At every report one of the monster warships disappeared--its shattered fragments and the bodies of its crew hurtling to the ground.
The two gunners fired as fast as they could sight their weapons, and with each shot one of the great warships was blown into fragments.
Even at that distance they could see the row of protruding eyes along the side of each monstrous body and the terrible, prow-like beaks tearing through the metal of the warships opposing them.
A boatload of American sailors from the warships anchored off Tampico to protect American citizens had been arrested by the Mexican military authorities.
Submarines have been sunk both by warships and merchantmen in this way and many more have been forced to desist from attacks.
There were no German ships at sea for the British to attack in turn, but some very gallant work was done by their submarines against Austrian and Turkish warships in the Mediterranean and the Dardanelles.
Referring to the fact that two French warships had got away from Brest towards the Irish coast, he writes: "If they land, the struggle may be more serious.
Spain also repaired French warships which took refuge at Ferrol in July 1804, and allowed reinforcements to their crews to travel thither overland.
At the same time Captains Sidney Smith, Hare, and Edge, with a picked body of men burnt or otherwise damaged 27 French warships left in the harbour, while 18 were brought away by the Allies.
They had a large packet for the Directory at Paris, which contained the plans of the United Irishmen, the numbers and positions of the British troops and of the British warships between Dungeness and the North Foreland.
A storm having compelled the larger British warshipsto keep in the offing, Puisaye went off in a boat to beg succour from Admiral Warren.
Early in 1796 seven French warships underwent extensive repairs in the royal dockyard at Cadiz.
The latter urged the need of speedily removing the French warships from Toulon to a Spanish port, or of making preparations for burning them.
A large number of their warships were captured from Russia during the war, and afterwards refitted and re-christened with Japanese names.
The flag of Japan displays a red sun on a white field, and when it flies from the masts of warships the sun is surrounded by sixteen red rays.
This is the station of the Russian Black Sea fleet, but the Russians have little pride in it, for the Turks control the passage to the Mediterranean, and without the consent of the other great Powers the Russian warships cannot pass through.
The low banks soon become more animated, the houses stand closer together, factories appear amongst them, and Chinese vessels lie moored on both sides, including two sorry warships of wood, relics of a time gone by.
They slept in these dug-outs, or in the trenches, and the detonation of the guns of the warships shook loose the earth and sand above them so that it rattled down in their faces, waking them from dreams of home to an uncomfortable reality.
But His Majesty’s warships were giving us a lot of aid.
Coal for our warships had to go in the other direction.
The Japanese were very moderate in their terms, waiving their demand for an indemnity, returning to Russia all interned warshipsand not insisting on any restriction to Russian power in the Far East.
We learn in your navy how to handle modern warships and shoot the giant guns.
Hence sailed forth thewarships which harried the British Isles, and left Norse speech strong to this day on Scottish tongue and in Northumbrian mouth.
Just then a great fleet of warships and gunboats and torpedo boats came in sight, on their way to attack the island.
So that when the warships got to where the island was marked on the map they found nothing but sea, and a very rough sea it was, because the Princess had churned it all up with her ankles as she walked away through it with the island.
Good morning to your warships now, and a merry Christmas all of you!
Your warships have posted the men right well," saith he with anather bow all round; "surely that big rogue will have no chance left among so many valiant musketeers.
A secret treaty for defence and offence was concluded between Russia and Turkey at the palace of Unkiarskelessi: The Porte undertook to close the Dardanelles to the warships of all other nations whenever Russia should be at war.
The warships steamed up the river and opened fire on the enemy.
More British troops and warships were arriving to carry the war to the bitter end, when news arrived of disastrous events in Afghanistan.
Spanish warships were ordered to the Gulf of Mexico.
The British and French warships in Sicilian waters fired a royal salute.
Russian warships were permitted to enter the Dardanelles, and Russian troops camped side by side with the Turks on the east bank of the Bosphorus.
Strogonov, the Russian Ambassador at Constantinople, at once proposed to his diplomatic colleagues to join him in calling for warships to protect the Christians there.
The French Government joined with the other powers in the restoration of the ancient rule of the Ottoman Empire by which all foreign warships were excluded from the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles.
Our warships penetrated into all waters of the globe, and made people, whether barbarous or civilized, respect and fear the Stars and Stripes.
Her policy was a selfish one, for she believed the United States was too weak to send any effective warships into that part of the world.
All nations saw that their warships to be effective must be ironclad, and the reader does not need to be reminded that such is the fact to-day respecting the navy of every civilized nation.
Our warships shelled the fortifications and silenced the batteries; and our troops made a gallant charge, but were repulsed with heavy loss, and had to fall back.
Alexandretta was in a state of fear while we were there, notwithstanding the fact that the warships of England, France, Turkey, and the United States lay in her harbor.
If they'd sent us here two months ago instead of fooling round trying to get warships through the Straits, the job would have been done by now.
No fewer than seven warships were lying off the coast, every one of them smashing their broadsides into the Turkish positions.
French warships were continually captured and their crews constantly passed on to swell the total in war prisons.
A watery moon showed up the variouswarships at anchor--dim grey formless shapes, marked by blurred lights.
I then ran up the sails, and gliding gently past the warships and a big incoming steamer, floated out into the broad peaceful darkness of the Thames estuary.
Warships and soldiers then appear on the scene; and the end of the old order of things is marked by the hoisting of the Union Jack, or the French or German tricolour.
The warships of the Powers might have continued to threaten the Albanian coast with unshotted cannon to this day, had not the Gladstone Cabinet proposed drastic means for bringing the Sultan to reason.
On the coasts of Scotland commanders of warships whose carpenters had run or broken their leave, and who perhaps were left, like Capt.
Warships could force these breaches, and so threaten the mainland at one of its few vulnerable points.
Warships came and went; airmen were present who had reconnoitred for the fleet in the attacks on the forts, and to discover the strength of the Turks on both sides of the strait.
Hunter expected a shot or two from the gunners, but they made no sign, probably unwilling to reveal their position to the warshipsin the bay.
Others yet again represent them as incessantly on the watch to seize a harbour here or there as a coaling station for warships and a basis of attack.
The German admiral sent his flag-lieutenant to Admiral Dewey to protest, on the ground thatwarships are exempt from blockade regulations.
Here, it may be assumed, he first came in close contact with the ocean, watched the English warships passing up and down, and imbibed some of that delight in the sea which is not the least part of the heritage of Englishmen.
The speaker estimates the wealth of Attica, maps it out into divisions, each able to bear the expense of the warships assigned to it.
We have far more warships and soldiers and revenue to-day, but they are all useless, unavailing and unprofitable owing to treason.
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