Sentences with phrase «british naval»

Read, transcribed, and annotated primary documents written by 19th century British naval officers and members of Parliament to gain insight into European perceptions of the American Civil War for a future book by Professor Robert Bonner.

I came to the interview in an 18th century British naval officer uniform and put on my resume that I spoke fluent Mexican #TheyHiredMeAnyway

British naval ships pre early 1940s would be largely concentrated in the north Atlantic.

The golf ball's journey up a steep ramp, over a painting of an anamorphic British naval captain, finds its way through the snake's bodies.

According to the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), the British naval ship Royal Fleet Auxiliary Mounts Bay arrived in Anguilla September 9 with 40 Royal Marines and Army engineers onboard, as well as equipment for humanitarian aid.

Despite the treaty, Spanish attacks continued until, in 1798, a decisive victory was won by settlers, with British naval support, in the Battle of St. George's Caye.

Spanish attacks had continued until a decisive victory was won by settlers, with British naval support, in the Battle of St. George's Caye in 1798.

In an era when we're regularly asked to vote on whether we need a new national flag to get rid of the Union emblem (historical note: it's only technically called a Union Jack when it's on the jackstaff of a British naval vessel) on our own ensign, and when Britain's international stock is at its lowest ebb, this seems to be a risky move by MINI, which is — when all's said and done — essentially a German outfit nowadays.

This is a real chance to study the story of the British naval frigate and as this is an attraction that has won awards, you can be confident that you are in for a fun and informative option.

Remember what a famous British naval officer said as he surveyed the horizon, and use his comment as your own call - to - arms:

The dockyard gave the British naval forces an edge over European rivals who were angling to control the seas around the sugar - producing islands.

«We have staff and a British naval ship ready to help those in need.

A British naval ship with 40 Royal Marines has been deployed to the region.

Not exact matches

Sir George Sydenham Clarke, a British officer and colonial administrator at the time, wrote that «the battle of Tsu - shima is by far the greatest and the most important naval event since Trafalgar.»

A number of naval battles with the British proved inconclusive, and the Royal Navy was able to achieve a number of victories that crippled the Regia Marina.

Captain Jerry Kyd, the Royal Navy officer in charge of HMS Queen Elizabeth, described naval drone warfare as an «absolute inevitability» for his ship, and the British armed forces as a whole «in the near future.»

But in British colonies, too, he maintains, it was not secular Enlightenment notions or economic shifts or naval superiority that brought an end to slavery.

NAVAL - GAZING: Sept. 10 marks the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Lake Erie, when Oliver Hazard Perry and a few hundred other Americans took on the British Navy near Put - In - Bay — and won.

More than 250 warships took part in the Battle of Jutland, the largest naval engagement of World War I, and more than 8,500 men were killed, according to British and German wartime records.

There were several smaller naval battles in the first few months after the outbreak of the war, but given the strength of the British Royal Navy, the Germans were reluctant to risk a full - scale battle until 1916.

Never - before - seen displays and immersive galleries commemorate the largest naval battle in history, the battle of jutland, and highlight the essential role of the british royal navy in winning the first world war.

A group of Nazi naval officers and crewmen are stranded on Canadian soil (we have no sympathy for the castaways, inasmuch as we have just seen them refusing food and water to a group of torpedoed British seamen).

In 1813, an American naval force commanded by Oliver H. Perry defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.

Enlisting on a British ship so he can search the ocean, Henry finds himself in hot water when he oversteps his rank and tells his naval captain that he is making a wrong turn.

Under air and ground cover from British and French forces, troops were slowly and methodically evacuated from the beach using every serviceable naval and civilian vessel that could be found.

Yorktown will wrap up the trilogy in 2018, focusing on «the naval battle that makes possible the defeat of the British army at Yorktown in the fall of 1781.»

Former naval hero Richard Sharpe is sent to India in the early 1800s in search of a missing British agent.

In Too Bad to Die, the central character is author Ian Fleming whose career path started out in the British office of naval war intelligence.

The cannon washed ashore an Arch Cape beach in 1846, after the shipwreck of the U.S.S. Shark, a naval schooner deployed to the Pacific Northwest during the border dispute between the British and the U.S. Built in 1821 as part -LSB-...]

September — Throughout the country, important holidays like Independence Day (Sep 21), St. George's Caye Day (September 10 in honor of an important naval battle where the British defeated the Spanish on St. George's Caye) and Carnival (similar to but different than the springtime Carnival held before Easter) keep September lively.

We've always rather put the turning point of the Battle of Chesapeake - one of the most decisive naval battles in the American War of Independence that saw the British General Cornwallis» supply routes cut off - down to the masterful seafaring tactics of the French military, who intervened with devastating precision and rather swung the momentum of the war firmly back towards the Americans.

This battle is famous for being the shortest naval battle in history: a critical hit from the German battleship Bismarck hit the British battlecruiser Hood less than 10 minutes after fire was opened.

The second title, Choice of Broadsides, is «a swashbuckling naval adventure» in which players guide a British officer fighting in the Napoleonic wars and commanding a Royal Navy frigate.

Choice of Broadsides, is «a swashbuckling naval adventure» in which players guide a British officer fighting in the Napoleonic wars and commanding a Royal Navy frigate.

At the height of its power, the British Empire owned the most advanced and intimidating naval force on Earth.

Recent activities have included a range of research, identity and product design for WikiLeaks, as well as proposals for the identity of Sealand, a self - proclaimed sovereign nation - state located on a platform built by the British seven miles off the English coast as part of a naval defense strategy during World War II.

Other typically British elements include the painted cut out of a naval officer and the bulldog with the British flag, which refer to the Royal Navy and Winston Churchill.

Siatous» work addresses the forcible expulsion of the Chagossian population by the British Government to make way for a US naval base in 1973.

Everyone who knows Bond knows Ian Fleming is the British former naval intelligence officer who wrote the 14 novels that gave rise to the roguish spy.

re Steyn, I still have no ideas how France could be «on the side of the good guys», their refusal to properly join the Allies led to the British sinking of their naval fleet in Algeria.

A group of Massachusetts Minutemaids then unleashed the zombie - generating T - Virus on London, crippling the British economy and severely limiting its naval capabilities.