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.

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

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.

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

William ( with a fleet of 200 ships ) landed in Epirus with a strong force ( 80, 000 men including 5, 000 knights ), and marched as far as Thessalonica, which he took and pillaged ruthlessly ( 7, 000 Greeks died ).

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.

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.

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

* A battle of annihilation is one in which the defeated party is destroyed in the field, such as the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile.

Their numbers were boosted by the addition to their fleet of two more ships, one of which was commanded by Stede Bonnet, but toward the end of 1717 Hornigold retired from piracy, taking two vessels with him.

As they approached, they split into two divisions, one of which cut across the head of the line and passed between the anchored French and the shore while the other engaged the seaward side of the French fleet.

Among ancient sources, the poet Simonides, another near-contemporary, says the campaign force numbered 200, 000 ; while a later writer, the Roman Cornelius Nepos estimates 200, 000 infantry and 10, 000 cavalry, of which only 100, 000 fought in the battle, while the rest were loaded into the fleet that was rounding Cape Sounion ; Plutarch and Pausanias both independently give 300, 000, as does the Suda dictionary.

Octavian was not present, but at the next meeting made a reply of such a nature that the consuls both left Rome to join Antony ; and Antony, when he heard of it, after publicly divorcing Octavia, came at once to Ephesus with Cleopatra, where a vast fleet was gathered from all parts of the East, of which Cleopatra furnished a large proportion.

Antony's fleet numbered 500, of which 230 were large war galleys furnished with towers full of armed men.

After Mark Antony lost his fleet, his army, which had been equal to that of Octavian, deserted in large numbers.

To implement this doctrine, which the Air Force and its supporters regarded as the highest national priority, the Air Force proposed that it should be funded by the Congress to build a large fleet of U. S. based long-range strategic heavy bombers.

Owen of Strathclyde was defeated and Symeon states that the army went as far north as Dunnottar and Fortriu, while the fleet is said to have raided Caithness, by which a much larger area, including Sutherland, is probably intended.

By 1943 however, large numbers of fleet and light carriers became available, which required larger formations of three or four carriers.

The largest success for the WIC in its history was the seizure of the Spanish silver fleet, which carried silver from Spanish colonies to Spain, by Piet Heyn in 1628 ; privateering was at first the most profitable activity.

In response to this new threat more heavily-gunned picket boats called " catchers " were built which were used to escort the battle fleet at sea.

* Searching a hostile coast along which a fleet might pass

Life in the Mediterranean fleet was considerably easier than cadet life, with visits to friendly ports all around the Mediterranean, but Beatty was concerned to work diligently towards naval examinations, which would determine seniority and future promotion prospects.

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

Formally neutral and reluctant to become involved with the great powers except as a last resort, Kuwait turned to the United States, the Soviet Union and Britain for naval protection of its tanker fleet after twenty-one ships were attacked in the gulf since late 1986.

As British public opinion was turned against Germany, Admiral Sir John Fisher twice – in 1904 and 1908 – proposed using Britain ’ s current naval superiority to ' Copenhagen ' the German fleet, that is, to launch preemptive strikes against the Kiel and Wilhelmshaven naval bases as the Royal Navy had done against the Danish navy in 1801 and 1807.

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

* Master seafarer Henry Mainwaring ( 1587 – 1653 ), Oxford graduate and lawyer turned successful Newfoundland pirate, returns to England, is pardoned after rescuing a Newfoundland trading fleet near Gibraltar, and writes a revealing treatise on piracy.

French scouts spied de Barras ' fleet on 9 September, and de Grasse turned his fleet back toward Chesapeake Bay that night.

" Graves then turned his battered fleet toward New York, arriving off Sandy Hook on 20 September.

By December 16, the fleet had passed the Great Fish River ( Eastern Cape, South Africa )-where Dias had turned back-and sailed into waters previously unknown to Europeans.

A complex plan to distract the British by threatening their possessions in the West Indies failed when a Franco-Spanish fleet under Admiral Villeneuve turned back after an indecisive action off Cape Finisterre on 22 July 1805.

In January 1560, the English fleet blocked the port of Leith, that French troops had turned into a military base.

After proceeding about sixty miles up this " mistaken strait ," Frobisher with apparent reluctance turned back, and after many buffetings and separations, the fleet at last came to anchor in Frobisher Bay.

After sailing for a while as schipper ( skipper ) of a merchant vessel named de Vlissinge, he was contacted again by the Zeeland Admiralty to become captain of the Haze, a merchant ship turned man-of-war carrying 26 guns in a fleet under admiral Gijsels fighting the Spanish, teaming up with the Portuguese during their rebellion.

Later, in 1248, Louis IX of France proposed ( by Matthew Paris as messenger ) to Haakon to join him for a crusade, with Haakon as commander of the fleet, but Haakon turned the offer down.

The defeat was mourned by them as an act of Divine Will, contemporary chronicles recording that " the Imperial Fleet encountered the fleet of the wretched infidels and the will of God turned another way.

He tried to relieve besieged Mahdia with the same fleet, but turned around just after engaging in battle.

Nelson led his line into a feint toward the van of the Franco-Spanish fleet and then turned toward the actual point of attack.

Glasgow, however, intercepted radio traffic from one of the German cruisers and informed Cradock who turned his fleet north to intercept the cruiser.

The following year, he was assigned to Captain-General John Campbell Loudoun in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where a planned expedition against Louisbourg turned back when confronted by a larger French fleet.

The fleet reprovisioned and then turned eastward to resume the journey to India.

After Japan's defeat by the Americans in WW2 they turned Yantai into a summer station for their entire Asian fleet.

The coast seemed invisible and Brown had long campaigned for an operational fleet and was ignored and labeled " foreigner " by most of his opposition who had turned from the " blue shirt " of the union, to the " red shirt " of the federation.

He then turned to the sea and raised a fleet amongst the Greek cities of Asia.

The sudden defection turned the tide of battle, and the remaining Greek fleet was completely destroyed.