"fleet" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- From 1405 to 1433, large fleets commanded by Admiral Zheng He-under the auspices of the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty-traveled to the Indian Ocean seven times.
- But in 1596, when it was Spanish territory, an English fleet commanded by Queen Elizabeth I's favorite, the Earl of Essex, sacked and burned the capital.
- In the battle, an Athenian fleet commanded by Alcibiades, Thrasybulus, and Theramenes routed and completely destroyed a Spartan fleet commanded by Mindarus.
- Her expression changed as she said it; he felt the same-the combined fleet Ky had pushed for, organized, commanded.
- Cheng agreed and launched a fleet, which he himself commanded, toward Wuchang.
- In 1507, a fleet commanded by Tristão da Cunha with Afonso de Albuquerque landed an occupying force at the then capital of Suq.
- He raised up a fierce war and armed fleets, which he himself commanded, that he might have the happiness of once fighting him who was my husband.
- Slotter-Key's military fleet commanded by Admiral Padhjan.
- For though British troops were bottled up in Boston, the British fleet commanded the harbor and the sea and thus no town by the shore was safe from attack.
- In 1779, a fleet commanded by Vice Admiral Charles Henri, comte d'Estaing assisted American forces attempting to recapture Savannah, Georgia.
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