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The Persians followed up their victory by sending a fleet to re-establish their control over Cyprus, and 200 ships were sent out to counter them under Cimon, who returned from ostracism in 451 BC.
As his ships readied for action, Brueys ordered his captains to gather for a conference on Orient and hastily recalled his shore parties, although most had still not returned by the start of the battle.
Along with constructing a new fleet of 140 ships, Rome returned to the strategy of taking the Carthaginian cities in Sicily one by one.
The few survivors were evacuated when the ships returned on 15 December 1609.
Las Casa returned fire and sent boarding parties which captured Olid's ships.
Messengers were sent to " Scythia ", where " a number " of warriors were selected, and, with sixteen ships, the messengers returned.
In the same year 129 ships returned to attack up the Seine.
By 13 March Richard had returned to England, and by 12 May he had set sail for Normandy with some 300 ships, eager to take the war to Philip.
When Sisko eventually returned with a fleet of Federation ships to retake the station, Worf and Martok lobbied Gowron to send Klingon ships to join the battle.
About 60, 000 are Krio, the descendants of freed slaves who returned to Sierra Leone from Great Britain, North America and slave ships captured on the high seas.
In summer 1548, the galleys returned to Scotland to scout for English ships.
Villeneuve returned from the Caribbean to Europe, intending to break the blockade at Brest, but after two of his Spanish ships were captured during the Battle of Cape Finisterre by a squadron under Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Calder, Villeneuve abandoned this plan and sailed back to Ferrol.
The British provided medical treatment for the sick and wounded French soldiers and French regular troops were returned to France aboard British ships with an agreement that they were not to serve again in the present war.
An American naval captain, ordered to take his ship out of Boston Harbour to eliminate a pair of Bermudian privateering vessels, which had been picking off vessels missed by the Royal Navy, returned frustrated, saying the Bermudians sailed their ships two feet for every one of ours.
It is not known for certain how many people were in each ship's crew but approximately 55 returned, and two ships were lost.
The intense heat and constant movement of the ships had a transforming effect on the wine, as discovered by Madeira producers when one shipment was returned to the island after a long trip.
An American naval captain, ordered to take his ship out of Boston Harbor to eliminate a pair of Bermudian privateering vessels that had been picking off vessels missed by the Royal Navy, returned frustrated, saying, " the Bermudians sailed their ships two feet for every one of ours ".
Some ships returned to Russia or were interned in neutral ports.
Soubise then returned to Ré with 15 ships and soon occupied the Ile d ' Oléron as well, thus giving him command of the Atlantic coast from Nantes to Bordeaux.
He was received by King George III as ' Chief of the Embassy for Creek and Cherokee Nations '; it was with British backing that he returned to train the Muscogee as pirates to attack Spanish ships.
Its builder, Starodubtsev, returned home with government awards and later built several other seaworthy ships.
* Returning to Athens after the battle, Theramenes leads Athenian agitation against the eight generals who have commanded in the engagement ; the six who have returned to Athens are condemned for negligence in not having picked up survivors from the ships disabled in the battle.
The Paralus returned to Athens, while Conon with the other eight ships fled to Evagoras of Cyprus, fearing the judgment of the Athenian commons.

ships and Europe
Air Force forward headquarters in Europe and in the Pacific, which control tactical fighters on ships and land bases ; ;
Finding their position in mainland Europe precarious, they crossed to England in 330 ships in two divisions.
As the forests of Britain and Europe continued to be over-harvested to supply the keels of larger wooden boats, and the Bessemer process ( patented in 1855 ) cheapened the cost of steel, steel ships and boats began to be more common.
The area is one of the most heavily traveled shipping lanes in the world, with ships crossing through it daily for ports in the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean Islands.
This was compounded by transportation problems-the coffee-growing areas were mainly on the Central Valley and only had access to the port in Puntarenas on the Pacific Coast, and before the Panama Canal was opened, ships from Europe had to sail around Cape Horn in order to get to the Pacific Coast.
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.
Steam ships began carrying Colombians, immigrants and goods from Europe and the United States over the Magdalena River.
Until the opening of the Suez Canal, the islands used to be an important refuelling and provisioning station for ships from Europe to the Indian Ocean.
Then followed the vast clipper trade of tea, opium, spices and other goods from the Far East to Europe, and the ships became known as " tea clippers ".
The final blow was the Suez Canal, opened in 1869, which provided a great shortcut for steamships between Europe and Asia, but was difficult for sailing ships to use.
They acquired large tracts of land, both in Europe and the Middle East ; they bought and managed farms and vineyards ; they built churches and castles ; they were involved in manufacturing, import and export ; they had their own fleet of ships ; and at one point they even owned the entire island of Cyprus.
It could take one of six possible routes at approximately 280 km, reduce the transit time from New York to California by one day and a total of 800 km, would considerably reduce transit costs from Europe to China and Japan, and have capacity for ships of up to 250, 000 tons.
Trading boats and ships traveled south on the Mississippi to New Orleans, and sometimes beyond to the Gulf of Mexico and other ports in the Americas and Europe.
Some hotels, resorts, and even cruise ships across America, Europe and Israel also undergo a thorough housecleaning to make their premises " kosher for Pesach " to cater to observant Jews.
In 1522 the first ships from Europe arrived, and by 1866 Sumba belonged to the Dutch East Indies, although the island did not come under real Dutch administration until the twentieth century.
At this time, ships were developing in Asia in much the same way as Europe.
Claiming to be Britain's second oldest colony, this is one of the most isolated islands in the world and was for several centuries of vital strategic importance to ships sailing to Europe from Asia and South Africa.
Sleipnir has been and remains a popular name for ships in Northern Europe, and Rudyard Kipling's short story entitled " Sleipnir ," late " Thurinda " ( 1888 ) features a horse named " Sleipnir.
In recent years, the shrinking Arctic sea ice has also made the Northern Sea Route viable for commercial cargo ships plying between Europe and East Asia during a six-to-eight week window in the summer months, shaving off thousands of miles from the voyage compared to the Suez Canal.
However, the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, together with the gradual move from sailing ships to coal-fired steam ships, increased the isolation of the islands, as they were no longer needed as a stopping port for journeys from Europe to the Far East.
Lack of organised naval opposition throughout Western Europe allowed Viking ships to travel freely, raiding or trading as opportunity permitted.
Is this any longer an English Parliament, if with more ships in your harbours than in all the navies of Europe ; with above two millions of people in your American colonies, you will bear to hear of the expediency of receiving from Spain an insecure, unsatisfactory, dishonourable Convention?
Believing that de Grasse would return a portion of his fleet to Europe, Rodney detached Rear Admiral Sir Samuel Hood with 14 ships of the line and orders to find de Grasse's destination in North America.
Graves was also concerned about some ships in his own fleet ; Europe in particular had difficulty manoeuvring.

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