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  • Thumbnail for War of the Austrian Succession
    were to be transported from Dunkirk. In February 1744, a French fleet of twenty sail of the line entered the English Channel under Jacques Aymar, comte...
    104 KB (12,612 words) - 22:09, 9 June 2024
  • the Spartan fleet over to Astyochus once the negotiations were complete; Therimenes later drowned at sea. Astyochus was instructed to sail to Cnidus to...
    2 KB (227 words) - 11:28, 17 September 2023
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    The First Fleet was a fleet of 11 British ships that took the first British colonists and convicts to Australia. It comprised two Royal Navy vessels, three...
    79 KB (8,660 words) - 00:12, 2 June 2024
  • century before the expedition of Ferdinand Magellan. Menzies' second book, 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance...
    31 KB (3,298 words) - 08:29, 22 May 2024
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    Stone Fleet consisted of a fleet of aging ships (mostly whaleships) purchased in New Bedford and other New England ports, loaded with stone, and sailed south...
    19 KB (2,161 words) - 02:08, 29 May 2024
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    F50 (catamaran) (category SailGP)
    create the new SailGP fleet racing circuit. Three more boats were built from scratch by Core Builders Composites to create an initial fleet of six boats crewed...
    9 KB (872 words) - 02:38, 15 May 2024
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    Before joining the crew of the RMS Titanic, he had sailed for over four years as a lookout on the RMS Oceanic. As a seaman, Fleet earned five pounds per...
    16 KB (1,635 words) - 03:29, 10 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
    of the fleet. Rosily was then to sail it into the Mediterranean and land troops at Naples, before making port at Toulon. Villeneuve decided to sail the...
    146 KB (18,504 words) - 18:45, 6 June 2024
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    Pierre-Charles Villeneuve (category French naval commanders of the Napoleonic Wars)
    British fleet in the English Channel, and allow the planned invasion of Britain to take place. To draw off the British defences, Villeneuve was to sail to...
    11 KB (1,203 words) - 06:52, 4 March 2024
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    De Gaulle! Set sail!"[This quote needs a citation] On 12 November, Admiral Darlan further escalated tensions by calling for the fleet to defect and join...
    41 KB (4,073 words) - 23:08, 8 June 2024
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    Royal Navy (redirect from British Fleet)
    had a large fleet built by a national levy. During the period of Danish rule in the 11th century, authorities maintained a standing fleet by taxation...
    157 KB (15,941 words) - 05:52, 6 June 2024
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    HMS Victory (category Ships and vessels of the National Historic Fleet)
    with a force of around twenty-nine ships of the line and, on 23 July, sighted a French fleet of roughly equal force 100 miles (160 km) west of Ushant. The...
    63 KB (6,315 words) - 21:56, 1 June 2024
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    persuade Denmark to give its fleet to Britain. That same day, the Admiralty issued an order for more than 50 ships to sail for "particular service" under...
    38 KB (4,508 words) - 11:07, 25 May 2024
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    The High Seas Fleet (German: Hochseeflotte) was the battle fleet of the German Imperial Navy and saw action during the First World War. The formation...
    43 KB (6,029 words) - 13:23, 1 April 2024
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    1598, the fleet sailed from Texel. The fleet was composed of eight vessels: the Mauritius and the Hollandia, which had sailed with the first fleet, as well...
    10 KB (1,075 words) - 15:34, 2 December 2023
  • formed under the orders of the Zamorin of Calicut. After the fleet of Vasco da Gama reunited with 6 caravels of the patrol fleet of Vicente Sodré, the Portuguese...
    4 KB (347 words) - 14:20, 10 February 2024
  • Pacific Fleet around 2014. The first twenty-one Fleet Problems — labeled with roman numerals as Fleet Problem I through Fleet Problem XXI — were conducted between...
    33 KB (3,941 words) - 15:33, 4 June 2024
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    merchant family. The fleet was to sail to Naples to gather more ships, and then sail to relieve Malta. In May 1283, the twenty-five Angevin galleys arrived...
    19 KB (2,356 words) - 08:08, 15 April 2024
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    in the fleet; the Queen, as owner of the four Royal Naval vessels, was to receive 50% of the profits. On 12 April 1587 the English fleet set sail from Plymouth...
    17 KB (1,888 words) - 01:20, 22 May 2024
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    PS Waverley (category Ships and vessels of the National Historic Fleet)
    passenger-carrying paddle steamer in the world. Built in 1946, she sailed from Craigendoran on the Firth of Clyde to Arrochar on Loch Long until 1973. Bought by the...
    19 KB (1,853 words) - 13:40, 18 April 2024
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