Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...within our power. This can be acomplished by extending our resources, credit, and even money to them. In acordance with the principles of modern warfare, we should bend our efforts toward the construction of a gigantie air force and the training of volunteer pilots. Our sending of this armada would only put us in a state of "limited belligerency...
...strong Crimson crew armada will open its official racing season this afternoon, with prospects for a clean sweep as five Varsity and Freshman boats meet crews from Syracuse, B.U., and M.I.T. in the Rowe Cup Regatta on the Charles...
...fifth time in 352 years, Britain's Royal Navy set forth last week to meet a major challenge to Britannia's rule of the waves. Under Effingham in 1588, Britain acquired that rule by beating the Armada of Spain in the English Channel. The French Navy of Louis XIV was vanquished at La Hogue (1692). Since then four other masters of bulging European powers have forced a showdown on that rule. Under Nelson at Aboukir Bay in 1798 and at Trafalgar in 1805 Britain's fleet crushed Napoleon's dream of making France an overseas power...
...Wednesday, out of the Kattegat steamed a second Nazi armada carrying troops and supplies. It was attacked by Allied ships in a fight lasting far into the night, along the Swedish coast from Goteborg to Stromstad. This time the Allies did their stuff. Swedes reported four Nazi cruisers were sunk and eight out of ten transports sent down or ashore. The sea was filled with dead, dying, drowning soldiers. Nevertheless, one German troopship managed to slip through to Oslo. All this fighting was apparently done by submarines and destroyers. Larger Allied ships were not risked close...
...their money the U. S. people have a wellarmed, well-organized, undermanned Big Navy. They soon will have an armada stupendous by any standards, second only to (if not bigger than) Great Britain's, more formidable than any now afloat. Awesome as the sea is the arithmetic of U. S. sea power...