Cells second Lao album ' Saew ' was released by Thai label GMM / Grammy in 2007 and received top 20 radio airplay in Bangkok for hit singles ' Waan ' and ' Leuk Leuk '.

The Empire of Wa was the first imperial state to be established in Kara-Tur, according to Waan tradition.

But in less than 5 years, the petty Wa warlords turned on each other once more and the Waan government was split into factions and plunged the island into 200 years of civil war before any type of stable government was established.

When civil war erupted in Shou Lung between the Shou and the T ' u and the northern provinces of Shou were invaded by the Horse Barbarians, the remaining Waan daimyos took advantage of this opportunity and under the united banner of Nitta Shogoro, they were able to finally drive out the occupying Shou troops.

When Motosune drove out the remaining Waan fleets, he tried to reestablish control in the southern areas.

The Grey Blossom mercenary regiment of the Shou Army that had occupied Wa asked permission to remain in Wa since they had been stationed there for so long that they had made their own lives in that nation, many intermarrying with Waan wives.

The story begins with four people requiring transport: Celise Waan, a scholar of anthropology ; Jefri Lion, a scholar and retired soldier ; Annitas, a half-robotic cybertech ; and Kaj Nevis, the leader of the expedition.

* 1973: De kleine kapitein in het land van Waan en Wijs, translated as The little Captain and the Seven Towers ( 1973, J. M. Dent )

Both sides attempted to break the stalemate and Kozakuran troops led by Honda no Motosune launched a naval strike against the Waan ships and for days battles raged on the decks of 300 ships.

To his surprise, the people of the area previously occupied by the Waan forces refused to be reincorporated into the Kozakuran Empire and insisted on remaining independent.

In the Thai solar calendar of Thailand, the name (" Waan Arthit ") is derived from Aditya, and the associated color is red.

Music videos for ' Waan ' and ' Leuk Leuk ' have also proved very popular on Thai music video channels and Cells have made several well received tours of Thailand to promote the album.

Waan government is similar to that of Kozakura as well, as there is an Emperor whose position is largely ceremonial, and the real ruler of the nation is the Shogun, Matasuuri Nagahide.

Up to this day, the Waan daimyos remain divided but they provide a unified front against all foreigners.

During this period, the non-humans in the occupied areas rebelled against their Waan colonizers and established independence.

They hunted down all Waan survivors and stragglers and exacted a violent revenge on them.

" Nine-inlet Mountain ", transcribed in Portuguese as Ká-Hó ) and Yim Zou Waan ( 鹽灶灣, lit.

The Portuguese name " Coloane " is derived from the Cantonese pronunciation of Gwo Lou Waan ( 過路環, lit.

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.

Shortly before this battle the Spartan navy, of which he had received the supreme command, was totally defeated off Cnidus by a powerful Persian fleet under Conon and Pharnabazus.

After traveling up the River Stour, the fleet was met by Danish vessels that numbered 13 or 16 ( sources vary on the number ) and a battle ensued.

The victorious fleet was then caught unaware when attempting to leave the River Stour and was attacked by a Danish force at the mouth of the river.

The Danish fleet was able to defeat Alfred's fleet which may have been weakened in the previous engagement.

When the Viking raids resumed in 892, Alfred was better prepared to confront them with a standing, mobile field army, a network of garrisons, and a small fleet of ships navigating the rivers and estuaries.

Alfred's military reorganisation of Wessex consisted of three elements: the building of thirty fortified and garrisoned towns ( burhs ) along the rivers and Roman roads of Wessex ; the creation of a mobile ( horsed ) field force, consisting of his nobles and their warrior retainers, which was divided into two contingents, one of which was always in the field ; and the enhancement of Wessex's seapower through the addition of larger ships to the existing royal fleet.

His fleet of 25 galleys was met by the Genoese ships sent by Visconti, led by Biagio Assereto.

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.

Phillip had a very difficult time assembling the fleet which was to make the eight-month sea voyage to Australia.

However, the fleet was uncooperative.

The islands were the scene of the Battle of the Aegates Islands of 241 BC, in which the Carthaginian fleet was defeated by C. Lutatius Catulus ; the engagement ended the First Punic War.

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.

Herodotus had no Athenian victories to record after the initial success, and the fact that Themistocles was able to carry his proposal to devote the surplus funds of the state to the building of so large a fleet seems to imply that the Athenians were themselves convinced that a supreme effort was necessary.

It was to Aegina rather than Athens that the prize of valour at Salamis was awarded, and the destruction of the Persian fleet appears to have been as much the work of the Aeginetan contingent as of the Athenian ( Herod.

At its mouth was the scene of the decisive battle in 405 by which Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet, ending the Peloponnesian War.

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

The projected F6D Missileer was intended to fulfill this mission and oppose the attack far from the fleet it was defending.

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.

Under Gylippus, the Syracusans and their allies were able to decisively defeat the Athenians on land ; and Gylippus encouraged the Syracusans to build a navy, which was able to defeat the Athenian fleet when they attempted to withdraw.

He was then able to travel to a meeting of the Allies, at which he proposed his strategy ; with the Athenian fleet fully committed to the defence of Greece, the other Allies accepted his proposals.

These ships, which, after the Russo-Japanese War ( 1904 – 1905 ), became known simply as destroyers, were basically enlarged torpedo boats, with speed equal to or surpassing the torpedo boats, but were armed with heavier guns that could attack them before they were able to close on the main fleet.

He organised a fleet and was able to subdue the rebels, and in doing so brought the independent Jarls under his control, many of the rebels having fled to Iceland.

William was able to secure the departure of Sweyn and his fleet in 1070, allowing him to return to the continent to deal with troubles in Maine, where the town of Le Mans had revolted in 1069.

Kaleb sent a fleet across the Red Sea and was able to defeat Dhu Nuwas, who was killed in battle according to an inscription from Husn al-Ghurab, while later Arab tradition has him riding his horse into the sea.

One contemporary writer critical of the scuttling of the Terrible wrote that " she made no more water than she did before battle ", and, more acidly, " If an able officer had been at the head of the fleet, the Terrible would not have been destroyed.

Between the 1680s and 1720s, the VOC was therefore able to equip and man an appreciable expansion of its fleet, and acquire a large amount of precious metals to finance the purchase of large amounts of Asian commodities, for shipment to Europe.

The city walls and houses are rebuilt and an Eolian fleet is constructed which is able to successfully defend the Tyrrhenian Sea from the Turks.

In 1284 the Pisans were defeated by the Genoese fleet at the Battle of Meloria, and the city was able to free itself: it became the first and only early independendant renaissance city-state of Sardinia, with statutes of its own, allied to Genoa ; the Genoese were pleased to see it thus withdrawn from Pisan control.

This strategy was flawed, however, unless the Allied fleet was able to prevent the Persian fleet from transporting troops across the Saronic Gulf.

This was exactly the kind of news that Xerxes wanted to hear ; that the Athenians might be willing to submit to him, and that he would be able to destroy the rest of the Allied fleet.

Tōgō was able to use the superior maneuverability of his fleet to advantage, " crossing the T " twice.

During the night action, Admiral Tōgō was able to rest his main fleet of armoured ships.

Once that happened, the enraged Sun Quan wanted to personally head north with a fleet to attack Gongsun Yuan, and initially, not even Lu Xun's opposition was able to stop him, although he eventually calmed down and did not follow through.

Unaware of the size of his opponent's fleet — in the fog, Nelson had not been able to count them — Jervis's squadron immediately sailed to intercept.

Philip V is able to escape back to Macedonia, after burning his fleet and leaving many thousands of his men dead or as prisoners of the Romans.

* By defeating the Egyptian fleet at Andros, Antigonus II is able to maintain his control over the Aegean Sea.

But now there was no English fleet of any quality able to contest command of the North Sea.