Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Strait of Dover that Napoleon was preparing to invade England; and the French Assembly was reported to have declared that England could not cope single-handed with the armies of the Tricolor. In one of his most elaborate and brilliant drawings, Gillray shows the thick-set Napoleon urging his fleet on; the chief interest, however, lies in the different reactions seen in the faces of the onlookers in England--Sheridan making a dramatic speech, and Fox hiding behind...
Vice Admiral William Veazie Pratt, present Commander of the Battle Fleet, will replace Admiral Henry Ariosto Wiley as Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Fleet...
Vice Admiral Louis McCoy Nulton, Commander of the Battleship Divisions of the Battle Fleet, will replace Admiral Pratt as Commander of the Battle Fleet...
Rear Admiral Charles Butler McVay Jr., budget officer of the Navy Department, will command the Asiatic fleet...
Died. Rear Admiral Yates Stirling (retired), 85, of Baltimore, Civil War veteran, father of Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr., commander of the Yangtze patrol of the U. S. Asiatic fleet; in Baltimore...