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He sailed through as a soldier of fortune to the Low Countries in 1572, and was driven by stress of weather to Brielle, which luckily for him had just fallen into the hands of the Dutch.
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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.
In May 1607, the Susan Constant, the Discovery, and the Godspeed sailed through Chesapeake Bay and thirty miles up the James River to a parcel of densely wooded, swamp land.
The trawler Carella accidentally sailed through a cloud of pneumonic plague bacilli ( Yersinia pestis ) during this trial.
Bonaparte's armada sailed from Toulon on 19 May 1798, making rapid progress through the Ligurian Sea and collecting more ships at Genoa before sailing southwards along the Sardinian coast, passing Sicily on 7 June.
D ' Abreu sailed through Ambon while his second in command Francisco Serrão went ahead towards the Maluku islands, was shipwrecked and ended up in Ternate.
* In the 1984 season, the ball was placed on the 30 yard line ( instead of the 20 ) if a kickoff sailed through the end zone on the fly and untouched.
It was a gamble which did not pay off, and whether through military error or betrayal, the Damascus campaign was a failure, and the royal family retreated to Jerusalem and then sailed to Rome and back to Paris.
Mention of these places in a journal of the voyage indicates that Pytheas passed through the Straits of Gibraltar and sailed north along the coast of Portugal.
Maud sailed West to East through the Northeast Passage, now called the Northern Route ( 1918 – 1920 ).
Disguised as a Knight Templar, Richard sailed from Corfu with four attendants, but his ship was wrecked near Aquileia, forcing Richard and his party into a dangerous land route through central Europe.
Early adherents of the Kabbalah portray Solomon as having sailed through the air on a throne of light placed on an eagle, which brought him near the heavenly gates as well as to the dark mountains behind which the fallen angels Uzza and Azzazel were chained ; the eagle would rest on the chains, and Solomon, using the magic ring, would compel the two angels to reveal every mystery he desired to know.
The sea's ancient Greek name Propontis derives from pro ( before ) and pont-( sea ), deriving from the fact that the Greeks sailed through it to reach the Black Sea.
" Coins sailed through the air towards the police as the crowd shouted " Pigs!
Early on 13 August they sailed through the Grand Boca and claimed the island of Trinidad and Tobago for Spain.
Tigris was built in Iraq and sailed with its international crew through the Persian Gulf to Pakistan and made its way into the Red Sea.
While Nelson was searching the Mediterranean for him, erroneously supposing that Villeneuve intended to make for Egypt, Villeneuve passed through the Strait of Gibraltar, rendezvoused with the Spanish fleet, and sailed as planned to the Caribbean.
This turned into a long journey in the course of which he visited the major cities of the United States and Europe, setting off from Yokohama on September 18, traveling through the U. S. to New York City, from which he sailed to Boulogne, reaching Paris on November 4.
The Second Pacific Squadron sailed through the North Sea.
The Russians could have sailed through any one of three possible straits to reach Vladivostok: La Perouse, Tsugaru, and Tsushima.
The first part of the bill, the concept and establishment of a national mint, met with no real objection, and sailed through ; it was assumed the second and third part ( the Bank and an excise tax to finance it ) would likewise glide through, and in their own way they did: The House version of the bill, despite some heated objections, easily passed.
He sailed through the Coral Sea at the eastern end of New Guinea, saw three previously unknown islands, and landed there.
Bass returned with Matthew Flinders in December 1798 in the Norfolk and sailed through the strait, proving its existence.
In December 1800, Lieutenant James Grant in HMS Lady Nelson, on way from Cape Town to Sydney, sailed through Bass Strait from west to east.
Three weeks later the French explorer Nicolas Baudin sailed through the strait from east to west and was the first to properly survey the coast to the west.
sailed and soldier
He was a soldier, crossbowman, and navigator who sailed for the Spanish Crown.
The Brooklyn Returned Services Association ( RSA ) chose as a monument a carved marble statue depicting a soldier with hat in hand, looking towards the harbour heads through which sailed the troopships bearing those who would not return.
sailed and fortune
One did one's best and if fortune frowned, an eighteen-year-old boy with murder in his heart sailed aboard one's ship.
In 1880, he sailed to London to seek his fortune, and in 1887 to New York.
Following the death of his father in 1673, Robert Livingston returned to Scotland and then sailed for Boston to find his fortune in North America.
He sailed to Tierra Firme with the expedition led by Pedrarias Davila in 1514 to make his fortune, but after two years found few opportunities there.
After two years in New York, Morrissey sailed to San Francisco, seeking fortune during the California Gold Rush.
sailed and Low
When Charles's illegitimate son Monmouth assembled an invasion force at Amsterdam, and sailed for Britain, William informed James of Monmouth's departure, and ordered English regiments in the Low Countries to return to Britain.
Low on provisions and working guns, Dudley sailed for home but met a Spanish man-of-war on the way.
Throughout 1518 he was English representative to Margaret of Austria in the Low Countries, and sailed home from Calais 15 February 1519.
sailed and was
She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.
Ra II, a ship built from papyrus, was successfully sailed across the Atlantic by Thor Heyerdahl proving that it was possible to cross the Atlantic from Africa using such boats in early epochs of history.
When he had recovered, he sailed to the front, but was shipwrecked ; after coming ashore with a handful of companions, he crossed hostile territory to Caesar's camp, which impressed his great-uncle considerably.
After much experience at sea, including command of a ship that was saved in a storm by convicts, Phillip sailed with the First Fleet, as Governor-designate of the proposed British penal colony of New South Wales.
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.
In late 1792 Phillip, whose health was suffering from the poor diet, at last received permission to leave, and on 11 December 1792 he sailed in the ship Atlantic, taking with him many specimens of plants and animals.
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 ).
A boat shaped like a sauce bottle that was sailed across the Atlantic Ocean by Tom MacLean
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.
The battle was the climax of a naval campaign that had ranged across the Mediterranean during the previous three months, as a large French convoy sailed from Toulon to Alexandria, carrying an expeditionary force under General Napoleon Bonaparte.
On 22 June, Nelson encountered a brig sailing from Ragusa and was told that the French had sailed eastwards from Malta on 16 June.
" By 24 July his fleet was resupplied and, having determined that the French must be somewhere in the Eastern Mediterranean, Nelson sailed again in the direction of Morea.
Havana was furnished with the fortress of Castillo de los Tres Reyes Magos del Morro to deter potential invaders, which included the English privateer Francis Drake, who sailed within sight of Havana harbour but did not disembark on the island.
The University was founded in 1829 following a donation by William Chalmers ( 1748 – 1811 ), a director of the Swedish East India Company, whose ships sailed across the world to supply Europe with goods from the East.
The first records of his life date from 1689, when he was a member of a French-English pirate crew that sailed in the Caribbean.
Thus short-handed, Kidd sailed for New York City, capturing a French vessel en route ( which was legal under the terms of his commission ).
Despite opinion that such a voyage was impossible and his having retired, Slocum rebuilt a derelict sloop Spray and sailed her single-handed around the world.
The Caribbean Sea was an unknown body of water to the populations of Eurasia until 1492, when Christopher Columbus first sailed into Caribbean waters on a quest to find a sea route to Asia.
The last flotas sailed in 1737 ; the monopoly port system was abolished shortly thereafter.
In 1667, when Defoe was probably about seven years old, a Dutch fleet sailed up the Medway via the River Thames and attacked Chatham.
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