"treasure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- When you talk about treasure galleons most people think of Cuba or the Gold Coast of Florida.
- In 1715, pirates launched a major raid on Spanish divers trying to recover gold from a sunken treasure galleon near Florida.
- Underwater successes include the fabulous treasures from the Atocha, a Spanish treasure galleon wrecked off the Florida Keys.
- In August 1750 a Spanish treasure galleon named Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe sought shelter from a storm on the North Carolina coast.
- And then saluted them all and reeled off happily, well-ballasted by gold like a treasure galleon, to bed and Hrenlet.
- Pirates raiding the Spanish treasure galleons out of Cuba maintained a settlement on South Andros.
- The Atocha was the largest Spanish treasure galleon in a fleet of 28 bound for Spain which sank along with seven others in a hurricane in September of 1622.
- The treasure galleons that assembled in Havana's harbor for the return trip to Spain invited many attacks by English, French, and Dutch pirates.
- In 1702, during the War of the Spanish Succession, Van Almonde was behind a plan to seize richly-laden Spanish treasure galleons arriving from the West Indies.
- All are named after the euphemistic translation of Cacafuego, a Spanish treasure galleon captured by Sir Francis Drake.
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