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.

Ultimately it was not clear that Jellicoe made any mistakes in his management of the fleet, nor departed from procedures which had been agreed upon by all concerned in advance.

King Andrew II of Hungary and, somewhat later, a fleet of crusaders from the region along the Lower Rhine finally departed for the Holy Land.

Zheng He's first voyage, which departed July 11, 1405, from Suzhou, consisted of a fleet of 317 ships ( other sources say 200 ships ) holding almost 28, 000 crewmen ( each ship housing up to 500 men ).

The deities having been satisfied by such a sacrifice, the winds started blowing and the warfaring fleet departed.

In 1820 a French fleet with an army departed from Toulon for the conquest of Algeria.

Grenville's fleet departed Plymouth on April 9, 1585, with five main ships: the Tiger ( Grenville's ), the Roebuck, the Red Lion, the Elizabeth, and the Dorothy.

The Admirals Maarten Tromp, Michiel de Ruyter and Piet Heyn had their home base here and in 1688 during the Glorious Revolution William III of Orange's invasion fleet departed from the port.

Until the start of the 20th century Noordwijk had a small fleet of barges at its disposal, which departed from the beach as there was no harbour.

A relevant entry from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle confirms that the Danish fleet which regularly raided England departed in 1000.

Nelson sailed eastwards again and leaving six ships-of-the-line at Karlskrona, he arrived at Reval on 14 May to find that the ice had melted and the Russian fleet had departed for Kronstadt.

Forced to move early because of intelligence that the Dominion was on the verge of taking down the minefield, the Federation departed before a full force could be assembled and found themselves blocked and outnumbered by a Dominion-Cardassian fleet.

In the month of September, he departed from Bordeaux with a force of 1200 men, on three mains ships a small fleet of eight support craft.

Within weeks his fleet departed, having made no attempt to form a settlement, due to lack of supplies.

The fleet under the command of the 32 – 33-year old Cabral departed from Lisbon on 9 March 1500 at noon.

From Kilwa Kisiwani, the fleet departed to Malindi, which was reached on 2 August.

In October 1990, BN departed from its Cascade Green, black and white scheme on its business car and locomotive fleet.

On 26 July coastal fleet under Colonel Anckarsvärd departed for Frederikshamn carrying 6 000 men with them who were together with 4 000 men strong unit advancing on land under General Carl Gustaf Armfeldt.

An Athenian fleet had been driven ashore at Pylos by a storm, and, at the instigation of Demosthenes, the Athenian soldiers fortified the peninsula, and a small force was left there when the fleet departed again.

In 1702 the Battle of Vigo Bay occurred, and in 1719, because a Spanish fleet which departed from Vigo attempted to invade Scotland in support of the Jacobites, the city was occupied for ten days by a British force.

On August 9, 1814 Hardy and his fleet departed Block Island for Stonington Harbor in part to lay claim to the Block Island food stores and livestock.

A fleet of five ships departed within the month for New England that included approximately 300 colonists, led by Francis Higginson.

This party initially prevailed, and a delegation was dispatched to Athens to make an offer of peace ; the Athenians, however, rejected this offer, and Lysander departed to the Aegean to take command of the fleet for the remainder of the war, which would be decided less than a year later by his total victory at Aegospotami.

Later that year however a Byzantine fleet arrived, and in October Amalric launched yet another invasion and besieged Damietta by sea and by land.

When Nelson's fleet arrived off Egypt on 1 August and discovered Brueys's dispositions, he ordered an immediate attack, and his ships advanced on the French line.

On 9 June the fleet arrived off Malta, then under the ownership of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, ruled by Grand Master Ferdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim.

The first message to reach Bonaparte regarding the disaster that had overtaken his fleet arrived on 14 August at his camp on the road between Salahieh and Cairo.

In early 2011, the Kriola, the first of a proposed fleet of ferryboats belonging to the company Cabo Verde Fast Ferry ( CVFF ) arrived in Praia directly from Singapore.

When the French general Junot arrived in Lisbon, the Portuguese fleet had already left with all the local elite.

In 1808, under a British naval escort, the fleet arrived in Brazil.

The few Spaniards who remained in Gibraltar in August 1704 were augmented by others who arrived in the fleet with Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt, possibly some two hundred in all, mostly Catalans.

The first European fleet, four Portuguese ships from Malacca, arrived in 1513 when the Portuguese were looking for a route for spices.

Elizabeth's gifts arrived in a large 27 gun merchantman ship that Mehmed personally inspected, a clear display of English maritime strength that would prompt him to build up his fleet over the following years of his reign.

However, the crusading army melted away at Ancona for want of transport, and when at last the Venetian fleet arrived, the dying Pope could only view it from a window.

On 1 May 1191 Richard's fleet arrived in the port of Lemesos ( Limassol ) on Cyprus.

When the Romulan / Cardassian fleet arrived at the Founders ' homeworld, they bombarded it, only to realize that the planet was deserted except for a token beacon.

A fleet commanded by Captain John Dutton ( first governor, 1659 – 1661 ) in the Marmaduke arrived at St Helena in 1659.

A Portuguese fleet under the command of Estêvão da Gama was sent from India and arrived at Massawa in February 1541.

In May, the Danish fleet arrived and Stockholm was attacked by land and sea.

The first contact with Europeans, occurred when Christopher Columbus, on his third voyage of exploration, arrived with his fleet of three small ships – the 100-ton Santa María and two caravels, El Correo and La Vaquenos – on 31 July 1498.

When the Persian fleet finally arrived at Artemisium after a significant delay, Eurybiades, who both Herodotus and Plutarch suggest was not the most inspiring commander, wished to sail away without fighting.

In 1263, King Haakon IV of Norway, in retaliation for a Scots expedition to Skye, arrived on the west coast with a fleet from Norway and Orkney.

Meanwhile, the Danish king's brother, Cnut, had finally arrived in England with a fleet of 200 ships, but he was too late as Norwich had already surrendered.

Sailing south from New York with 19 ships of the line, Graves arrived at the mouth of the Chesapeake early on 5 September to see de Grasse's fleet at anchor in the bay.

Sailing more directly than de Grasse, Hood's fleet arrived off the entrance to the Chesapeake on 25 August.

Taking command of the combined fleet, now 19 ships, Graves sailed south, and arrived at the mouth of the Chesapeake on 5 September.

By the time the Ottoman fleet arrived the Knights were as ready as they could be.

In 1027, Cnut arrived with a fleet.