After suffering heavy shell damage, the German fleet turned 180 degrees and headed away from the battle.

Later that year, the allied fleet broke through Dominion lines and headed for the Dominion high command on Cardassia Prime.

The fight went badly, however, until a Cardassian uprising headed by the former leader Damar turned the Cardassian fleet against the Dominion.

** Meanwhile at sea, the Persians are defeated by a Greek fleet headed by Leotychidas of Sparta and Xanthippus of Athens in the Battle of Mycale, off the coast of Lydia in Asia Minor.

De Ruyter took in the red flag and broke through the enemy line with Vice Admiral Johan de Liefde, while the rest of the Dutch fleet under Aert van Nes headed south.

In October 1650, Rupert's fleet, now comprising six vessels, broke out and headed into the Mediterranean.

Barbarossa had taken his fleet out of the anchorage and headed south as well.

The northern, windward column of the British fleet was headed up by Nelson's 100-gun flagship Victory.

He determined that a landing would only be of temporary advantage in an Allied dominated sea and headed for Papeete, Tahiti to fire at French shipping, then rejoined the other ships of his fleet and moved toward South America.

However, as the Macedonian fleet neared the island of Sazan, Philip heard a report that some Roman quinqueremes had been seen headed for Apollonia.

In the navy of the 8th – 11th centuries, a droungarios headed a fleet, either the central imperial fleet or one of the thematic fleets ; in the army he headed a Droungos, roughly a battalion-sized grouping.

After the armistice with the Allies, the Italian fleet had steamed out from La Spezia and headed to Malta.

The Persian fleet next headed south down the coast of Attica, landing at the bay of Marathon, roughly from Athens Under the guidance of Miltiades, the general with the greatest experience of fighting the Persians, the Athenian army marched to block the two exits from the plain of Marathon.

By 1835, Allan was made a partner in the firm that from then was known as Millar, Edmonstone & Co. With his father's encouragement and capital, Allan expanded the company's shipping operations, and J & A Allan ( then headed by his elder brother, James, in Glasgow ) became closely involved with building of the merchant fleet.

On December 25, the fleet headed towards Revilla Gigedo Islands off the west coast of Mexico.

The next day the fleet sortied from Ulithi and headed for scheduled air strikes on Luzon and Formosa.

In addition, a U. S. fleet, under the command of Commodore Richard Morris, had recently captured a Tunisian vessel that was headed for Tripoli.

After the Columbia Accident in 2003, Covey, along with retired Air Force Lt. General Thomas Stafford, headed the Stafford-Covey Commission in returning the Space Shuttle fleet to space, starting with the STS-114 mission.

The Churchill's Captain, Sandra Hiroshi, brought news that a large Clark-loyal EarthForce fleet was headed for Babylon 5, with orders to arrest the entire command staff and place the station under martial law.

An EarthForce fleet including two Omega class destroyers, the Agrippa and Roanoke, many wings of Starfuries, and a force of EarthForce Marines, headed for Babylon 5.

Just when the battle seemed to be over, a new fleet of EarthForce warships poured out of hyperspace and headed towards the station, and at this point defeat for the anti-Clark forces appeared inevitable.

England contributed a young subaltern named Newton and the naval architect Samuel Bentham, brother to the economist, who for his colonel's commission was proving a godsend to the Russian fleet.

Also, the program for fleet modernization will be stepped up in 1961 causing an increase in expenditures.

Under his supervision, the state fire-fighting agency developed such techniques as plowing of fire lines and established a fleet of tractor plows and tractor units for fire fighting.

Apollo's role as the slayer of the Python led to his association with battle and victory ; hence it became the Roman custom for a paean to be sung by an army on the march and before entering into battle, when a fleet left the harbour, and also after a victory had been won.

* 1281 – Mongol invasion of Japan: The Mongolian fleet of Kublai Khan is destroyed by a " divine wind " for the second time in the Battle of Kōan.

Recreating the fyrd into a standing army, ringing Wessex with some thirty garrisoned fortified towns, and constructing new and larger ships for the royal fleet were costly endeavours that provoked resistance from noble and peasant alike.

In exchange for this support, Amyntas granted them rights to Macedonian timber, which was sent back to Athens to help fortify their fleet.

Lord Sydney, as Secretary of State for the Home Office, was the minister in charge of this undertaking, and in September 1786 he appointed Phillip commodore of the fleet which was to transport the convicts and soldiers who were to be the new settlers to Botany Bay.

During the naval expansion of Aegina during the Archaic Period, Kydonia was an ideal maritime stop for Aegina's fleet on its way to other Mediterranean ports controlled by the emerging sea-power Aegina.

When the Greek fleet was preparing at Aulis to depart for Troy to begin the Trojan War, Artemis becalmed the winds.

The AIM-54 Phoenix, developed for F-111B fleet air defense fighter, had an airframe with 4 cruciform fins that was a scaled-up version of the AIM-47.

In the U. S., current plans call for the existing USAF bomber fleet to remain in service until the mid-to-late 2020s, with the first possible replacements becoming operational in 2018.

A modest fishing fleet provides fish and shrimp for local subsistence and export to Europe.

The first clashes took place on 2 August, but little action took place for several days, as the King waited for all his forces to arrive and Essex waited for the fleet.

Within a week Bonaparte had resupplied his ships, and on 19 June his fleet departed for Alexandria in the direction of Crete, leaving 4, 000 men at Valletta under General Claude-Henri Vaubois to ensure French control of the islands.

Returning to the fleet at the Tagus in late April 1798, he was ordered to collect the squadron stationed at Gibraltar and sail for the Ligurian Sea.

He instructed his naval commander, Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys D ' Aigalliers, to anchor in Alexandria harbour, but naval surveyors reported that the channel into the harbour was too shallow and narrow for the larger ships of the French fleet.

When Alexandria harbour proved inadequate for his fleet, Brueys had gathered his captains and discussed their options.

Despite vocal opposition from Contre-Admiral Armand Blanquet, who insisted that the fleet would be best able to respond in open water, the rest of the captains agreed that anchoring in a line of battle inside the bay presented the strongest tactic for confronting Nelson.

It is possible that Bonaparte envisaged Aboukir Bay as a temporary anchorage: on 27 July he expressed the expectation that Brueys had already transferred his ships to Alexandria and three days later issued orders for the fleet to make for Corfu in preparation for naval operations against the Ottoman territories in the Balkans, although the courier carrying the instructions was intercepted and killed by Bedouin partisans.

A more pressing problem for Brueys was a lack of food and water for the fleet: Bonaparte had unloaded almost all of the provisions carried aboard and no supplies were reaching the ships from the shore.