"sailor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Slowly, the blockade runner lost way and lay dead in the water, an easy prey for Union sailors.
- While the Union sailors captured the armed schooner and crew, it was not without cost.
- The Union sailors boarded the grounded vessel and extinguished a fire that had been started by her crew before they escaped.
- The Union sailors and marines who did land could not scale the wall.
- Not a soul remained on board the blockade runner when the Union sailors reached her shortly past noon.
- The Union sailors boarded the Breaker and put out the fire.
- Skirmishing continued for a time; the Union sailors held out due to their ships which supported them with artillery fire.
- Rebel casualties were 14 killed and 9 wounded; it is unknown how many Union sailors and marines died.
- This was very disastrous as the Union sailors accounted for some two thousand bushels of salt destroyed, with all the works.
- Since it was impossible to take possession of Ranger, the Union sailors burned her.
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