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He spent 1860 in Kentucky until December 21, when he sailed for California to take command of the Department of the Pacific.
They sailed for nine days before washing ashore on Mount Parnassus.
The U. S. Army brought truck-towed Bofors 40 mm AA guns along with truck-mounted units fitted with mechanized turrets when they sailed, first for Great Britain and then onto France.
Paul of Tarsus sailed for Europe for the first time from Alexandria Troas and returned there from Europe ( it was there that the episode of the raising of Eutychus later occurred ).
They sailed for Boston in 1635.
One of the incidents which led to the creation of the Basel Convention was the Khian Sea waste disposal incident, in which a ship carrying incinerator ash from the city of Philadelphia in the United States after having dumped half of its load on a beach in Haiti, was forced away where it sailed for many months, changing its name several times.
Christopher Marlowe's play Tamburlane the Great was first performed in London in 1587, three years after the formal opening of English-Ottoman trade relations when William Harborne sailed for Constantinople as agent of the Levant Company.
Teach and his crews sailed the vessel south along Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to Bequia, where they disembarked her crew and cargo, and converted the ship for their own use.
The crew of La Concorde were given the smaller of Teach's two sloops, which they renamed Mauvaise Rencontre ( Bad Meeting ), and sailed for Martinique.
On 19 August, Nelson sailed for Naples with Vanguard, Culloden and Alexander, leaving Hood in command of Zealous, Goliath, Swiftsure and the recently joined frigates to watch over French activities at Alexandria.
On 23 October, following the transfer of the wounded to the military hospital and provision of basic supplies, the convoy sailed on towards Lisbon, leaving Bellerophon and Majestic behind for more extensive repairs.
The remaining prizes underwent basic repairs and then sailed for Britain, eventually arriving at Plymouth.
The Persian force then sailed for Attica, landing in the bay near the town of Marathon.
The Chinese armies conquered Vietnam for around 20 years, while the Chinese fleet sailed the China seas and the Indian Ocean, cruising as far as the east coast of Africa.
When Gail refused to go along with the plan, Joe sailed away and in the attempt, drowned for real, leaving Gail to be charged with his murder.
Thus short-handed, Kidd sailed for New York City, capturing a French vessel en route ( which was legal under the terms of his commission ).
Both Giovanni Caboto ( John Cabot ) and Giovanni da Verrazzano are reported to have sailed in or near Maritime waters during their voyages of discovery for England and France respectively.
In October 1775, the Gaspée went downriver, and her prisoners were transferred to the Adamant, which then sailed for England.
In January 1776, Allen and his men were put on board HMS Soledad, which sailed for Cork, Ireland.
Rachel White Scheuering writes that for one mission to launch a rocket, he sailed with a naval operation to the Arctic, and also conducted rocket launching from ships at the equator.
He sailed first to Cuba, to pick up supplies Cortés had arranged for him, where Governor Velázquez convinced him to go and claim the colony he was to found as his own.
On January 3, 1841, he sailed from Fairhaven, Massachusetts on the whaler Acushnet, which was bound for the Pacific Ocean.
On the outbreak of hostilities on 18 October, the Greek fleet, placed under the newly promoted Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis, sailed for the island of Lemnos, occupying it three days later ( although fighting continued on the island until 27 October ) and establishing an anchorage at Moudros Bay.

sailed and home
Not until they sailed home at the end of the day, through a sea strewn with bodies and the wreckage of houses, were they aware of what had happened.
The arrival of the Second and Third Fleets placed new pressures on the scarce local resources, but by the time Phillip sailed home in December 1792, the colony was taking shape, with official land-grants and systematic farming and water-supply.
As the ship sailed home, Newton began to read the Bible and other religious literature.
After seven years, the gods decided to send Odysseus home ; on a small raft, he sailed to Scheria, the home of the Phaeacians, who gave him passage to Ithaca.
Those in home waters sailed to the British submarine base at Harwich.
In 1589, he took part in Francis Drake's English Armada, which sailed to Spain in an unsuccessful attempt to press home the English advantage following the defeat of the Spanish Armada ; the Queen had ordered him not to take part in the expedition, but he only returned upon the failure to take Lisbon.
Anson then sailed home, eventually arriving back in London more than three and a half years after he had set out, having circumnavigated the globe in the process.
Gaunt had no funds with which to pay them, and despite his entreaties none were sent from England, so in April 1374 he abandoned the enterprise and sailed for home.
In Brazil, he briefly captured the Portuguese settlement of Salvador, personally leading the assault on the sea fortress of that town. In August with a small and undermanned fleet he sailed for the African west coast and attacked a Portuguese fleet in a strongly defended bay of Luanda but failed to capture any ships. He then crossed the Atlantic ocean again to try and capture merchant ships at the city of Vitória, but was defeated by a resistance organized by the local civilians, with assistance by a Portuguese garrison. After finding Salvador recaptured by a large Spanish-Portuguese fleet Heyn returned home. The Dutch West India Company were pleased with Heyn's leadership qualities and in 1626 placed him in command of a new squadron. In subsequent raids in 1627 at Salvador, he attacked and captured over thirty richly laden Portuguese merchant ships before returning to the United Provinces.
) They sailed down the Euphrates to Emar ( Meskene ) and then returned home via Mitanni.
For centuries Marstal vessels have sailed the seven seas, and even today the town is the home port for a considerable number of coasters.
It did, however, resolve that hostilities should cease, and the British abandoned Fort Bowyer and sailed home to their base in the West Indies.
The Sicilians landed near Alexandria but when they realised that their expected allies would not be coming ( due to King Amalric I of Jerusalem's death ) and with Saladin's army approaching they returned to their ships and sailed home.
He sailed back to Britain from Nova Scotia aboard a Royal Navy ship arriving home in November 1804.
He sailed home from Korean waters aboard battleship, but was not part of the ship's company.
" Earlier, on 12 September 1731, Rear Admiral Stewart had written to the Governor of Havana to complain of the " violence and villainies " of a Guarda Costa commander named Fandino who, " about the 20th April last sailed out of your harbor in one of those Guarda Costas, and met a ship of this island bound for England ; and after using the captain in a most barbarous inhuman manner, taking all his money, cutting off one of his ears, plundering him of those necessaries which were to carry the ship safe home ...".
Every day, the fleet sailed out to Lampsacus in battle formation, and waited outside the harbor ; when Lysander refused to emerge, they returned home.
Because of the long periods often spent at sea and poor conditions on board, many of the crew sometimes perished during the voyage ; therefore advanced rigging systems were developed so that the vessel could be sailed home by an active sailing crew a fraction of the size aboard at departure.
His father worked in Canada from 1903, and sailed home to collect his family to emigrate to Canada in 1907.
In 1936 Eric de Bisschop built a Polynesian " double canoe " in Hawaii and sailed it home to a hero's welcome in France.
Sjöstierna sailed home already on 22 September and commander of the remaining Swedish fleet ignored Lewenhaupt's attempts to persuade him to sail to Beryozovye Islands (, ) and instead sailed on 27 October back to Sweden.
He sailed these in a sitting position and not as a windsurfer standing up, near his home on the Swan River in Perth.

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