* The Athenian admiral, Phormio, continues the siege of Potidaea by blocking the entrance to the Gulf of Corinth.

* 429 Phormio, Athenian admiral, wins the Battle of Chalcis

* The Athenian admiral Phormio has two naval victories, the Naupactus and the Battle of Chalcis at the mouth of the Corinthian Gulf.

Phormio ( Φορμίων ( gen. Φορμίωνος )), the son of Asopius, was an Athenian general and admiral before and during the Peloponnesian War.

* Phormio: A successful Athenian admiral, he used to sleep rough on a soldier's pallet ( line 347 ).

Phormio led his men up slowly from the side of the city that the Athenians had not yet surrounded and constructed a counterwall to complete Potidaea's investment.

The battle, which took place a week after the Athenian victory at Rhium, set an Athenian fleet of twenty ships, commanded by Phormio, against a Peloponnesian fleet of seventy-seven ships, commanded by Cnemus.

A talented naval commander, Phormio commanded at several famous Athenian victories in 428 BC, and was honored after his death with a statue on the acropolis and a state funeral.

Phormio first appears in the historical record in 440 BC, when he shared with Pericles, Hagnon, and others the command of the Athenian fleet in the later part of the Samian War.

After Potidaea was firmly besieged, Phormio led his men in a successful campaign against Athens ' enemies in the Chalcidice, and in the next year he again led an army attacking the Chalcidians, this time alongside Perdiccas, king of Macedon.

In the winter of 429 / 8 BC, Phormio was sent out to the Corinthian Gulf as commander of a fleet of 20 triremes ; establishing his base at Naupactus, Phormio instituted a blockade of Corinthian shipping.

Phormio was notified of these plans by the concerned Acarnanians, but was initially unwilling to leave Naupactus unprotected.

In 161 BC the Phormio of Terence was acted at these games.

Having gained relative freedom to the metic class he was subsequently involved in banking from 394 BC, a business inherited by his slave named Phormio.

After a single land campaign in 428 BC in Acarnania, Phormio is not recorded as having held command again.

He notoriously described in 1724 the case of Baron Jan von Wassenaer, a Dutch admiral who died of this condition following a gluttonous feast and subsequent regurgitation.

The wound was immediately inspected by Vanguard < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s surgeon Michael Jefferson, who informed the admiral that it was a simple flesh wound and stitched the skin together.

Edward Vernon, the British admiral who devised the scheme, saw his 4, 000 occupying troops capitulate to local guerilla resistance, and more critically, a disease epidemic, forcing him to withdraw his fleet to British-owned Jamaica.

Oryphas, the admiral of the Byzantine fleet, alerted the emperor Michael, who promptly put the invaders to flight ; but the suddenness and savagery of the onslaught made a deep impression on the citizens.

He noted, ' Captains ... to be successful must possess, in a marked degree, initiative, resource, determination, and no fear of accepting responsibility ', and particularly regarding wartime conditions '... as a rule instructions will be of a very general character so as to avoid interfering with the judgement and initiative of captains ... The admiral will rely on captains to use all the information at their disposal to grasp the situation quickly and anticipate his wishes, using their own discretion as to how to act in unforeseen circumstances ..' The approach outlined by Beatty contradicted the views of many within the navy, who felt that ships should always be closely controlled by their commanding admiral, and harked back to reforms attempted by Admiral George Tryon.

In the town, the Marine brigade, still under the command of the British admiral Sir John Leake, and the governor, Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt ( who had commanded the land forces in August ), and reinforced shortly before by a further 400 Royal Marines, held the fortress against repeated attacks.

Now, let us say that the purpose is not legal entitlement, but rather, the following situation: The admiral of the fleet believes that captains and crews who have fought alongside each other are more effective than captains and crews who are strangers to each other.

Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, GCB, OM, GCVO SGM ( 5 December 1859 – 20 November 1935 ) was a British Royal Navy admiral who commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in World War I.

The exploits of the Ottoman admiral Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha, who commanded the Ottoman Navy during Suleiman's reign, led to a number of military victories over Christian navies.

He was the son of Hadji Mehmed Piri, and began engaging in government-supported privateering ( a common practice in the Mediterranean Sea among both the Muslim and Christian states of the 15th and 16th centuries ) when he was young, in 1481, following his uncle Kemal Reis, a well-known corsair and seafarer of the time, who later became a famous admiral of the Ottoman Navy.

The first recorded launch of torpedoes from a torpedo boat ( which itself was launched from a torpedo boat tender ) in an actual battle was by Russian admiral Stepan Makarov on January 16, 1878, who used self-propelled Whitehead's torpedoes against a Turkish armed ship Intibah during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78.

Zheng He ( 1371 – 1433 ), formerly romanized as Cheng Ho and also known as Ma Sanbao and Hajji Mahmud Shamsuddin, was a Muslim Hui-Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral, who commanded voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Somalia and the Swahili coast, collectively referred to as the " Voyages of Zheng He " from 1405 to 1433.

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During the same year, van Dyk lent some limited ( non-military ) support to the Dutch admiral Boudewijn Hendricksz, who sacked San Juan, Puerto Rico.

As the U-boats continued to be the arm of the Kriegsmarine that was doing most of the fighting, by 1942 Raeder was becoming increasingly overshadowed by Admiral Karl Dönitz, who made little secret of his contempt for the " battleship admiral " Raeder, and started to act more and more independently, for instance, dealing directly with Albert Speer in settling construction targets for the U-boats.

Raeder longed to sack Dönitz, but was unwilling to do so as he felt that was nobody to replace the aggressive and fanatically National Socialist Dönitz, who knew more about submarine warfare than any other admiral in the Kriegsmarine and seemed to be on the verge of winning the Battle of the Atlantic.

** Ad Herbal, admiral of the Carthaginian fleet who has battled for domination of the Mediterranean Sea for Carthage in the First Punic War against Rome

* Philip Charles Durham ( 1763 – 1845 ), British admiral who fought at the Battle of Trafalgar

* Christopher Clayton, Royal Navy pilot during the Falklands War, who later became an admiral

There, he was a trierarch in the Athenian relief fleet sent out to assist the admiral Conon, who was blockaded at Mytilene.

Embarrassed by further failures, she and her supporters were supplanted in 919 by the admiral Romanos Lekapenos, who married his daughter Helena Lekapene to Constantine VII and finally advanced to the imperial throne in 920.

* Ad Herbal, admiral of the Carthaginian fleet who has battled for domination of the Mediterranean Sea for Carthage in the First Punic War against Rome

* The first known reference to sugar cane appears in writings by Alexander the Great's admiral Nearchus, who writes of Indian reeds " that produce honey, although there are no bees ".

The admiral ordered Hood to establish the safest course into the harbour ; the British had no charts of the depth or shape of the bay except a rough sketch map Swiftsure had obtained from a merchant captain, an inaccurate British atlas on Zealous, and a 35-year old French map aboard Goliath.

The French captains had been taken by surprise by the speed of the British advance, and were still aboard Orient in conference with the admiral when the firing started.

However in 490 BC, following up the successes of the previous campaign, Darius decided to send a maritime expedition led by Artaphernes, ( son of the satrap to whom Hippias had fled ) and Datis, a Median admiral.

Also, some British sources have accounted the flag story ( He had the Spanish flag hauled down and the English flag hoisted in its stead ; Rooke's men quickly raised the British flag ... and Rooke claimed the Rock in the name of Queen Anne ; or Sir George Rooke, the British admiral, on his own responsibility caused the British flag to be hoisted, and took possession in name of Queen Anne, whose government ratified the occupation ).

The lead British admiral had a crisis of nerves, and his second-in-command withdrew after one day, with moderate casualties.

His son Virginio was a famous admiral for the Papal States and France, but in 1539 he had his fiefs confiscated under the charge of treason.

In 1547, Piri had risen to the rank of Reis ( admiral ) as the Commander of the Ottoman Fleet in the Indian Ocean and Admiral of the Fleet in Egypt, headquartered in Suez.

Having consolidated his conquests on land, Suleiman was greeted with the news that the fortress of Koroni in Morea ( the modern Peloponnese ) had been lost to Charles V's admiral, Andrea Doria.

" Defending his own behaviour in not sending his full fleet to North America, he also wrote that " f the admiral in America had met Sir Samuel Hood near the Chesapeake ", that Cornwallis's surrender might have been prevented.

Although private maritime trade and official tribute missions from China had taken place in previous dynasties, the tributary fleet under the Muslim eunuch admiral Zheng He in the 15th century far surpassed all others in size.

By 1942, Dönitz had emerged as Hitler's favourite admiral ( whom Hitler liked so much that he eventually named him as his successor ), and that to sack Dönitz would probably lead Hitler to sack him in turn.

The French High Commissioner in Germany André François-Poncet replied that the admiral seemed ill-informed about history and the law, stating that North Korea had attacked South Korea, and that UN forces in Korea were fighting in response to South Korean appeals for help and under the authority of the UN Security Council, which did not correspond at all to the situation with Norway in 1940.

The Argentine admiral Luis María Mendía testified in January 2007 that a French intelligence agent, Bertrand de Perseval, had participated in the " disappearance " of the two French nuns, Léonie Duquet and Alice Domon.

The following year, the British admiral Blake supposedly attached a whip to his mast as a symbol that he had whipped the Dutch off the sea.

The released were surprised to hear the admiral personally giving them directions in fluent Spanish ; Hein after all was well acquainted with the region as he had been confined to it during his internment after 1603.

During this assembly, the admiral of Coligny, future head of the protestants, had a petition from Normandy protestants read in front of the amazed court, asking for the liberty of religion.

In 1784, Aguilar conducted a series of unsuccessful assaults against Jolo and in 1796, Spanish admiral José Alava was sent from Madrid with a powerful naval fleet to stop the slave-raiding attacks that had been coming from the area of the Sulu Sea.

Later, William had a brief relationship with Eva Elincx, leading to the birth of their illegitimate son, Justinus van Nassau: William officially recognised him and took responsibility for his education – Justinus would become an admiral in his later years.

His father had been a caulker, before becoming an admiral under Michael IV and botching an expedition to Sicily.

Although the triumvirs had been able to cross the sea with their main force, further communications with Italy were made difficult by the arrival of the Liberatore admiral Ahenobarbus, with a large fleet of 130 ships.

In 1799, King Ferdinand III created Bronte as a Duchy, and rewarded admiral Horatio Nelson with the title of Duke for the help he had provided him in bloodily repressing the revolution in Naples and so in recovering his throne.

There were many new riots ; on 20 August, Johan de Witt visited his brother in prison ; both were then murdered by an Orangist civil militia that had been instructed by Tromp, the Orangist admiral.

In 326 BC, Nearchus was made admiral of the fleet that Alexander had built at the Hydaspes ( A 6. 2. 3 ; Indica 18. 10 ).