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be used. This dramatically sped up loading: HMS Sabre took 2 hours to load ... to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations ...

of the Mediterranean, and assigned to HMS Victory in May 1803. He joined ... every man will do his duty" flying from HMS Victory]] ...

wait until September 15, before his ship HMS Victory was ready to sail. ... HMS Victory made its way to Gibraltar for repairs carrying on board ...

In 1770, at the age of 16, he joined HMS Hunter as an able seaman, ... few days later, he was appointed to serve on HMS Belle Poule as its master ...

the Continental Navy. However, through his victory over the HMS Serapis with ... instead, leading to a famous encounter with HMS Drake, a 20 gun Royal Navy sloop. ...

controlled Lake Champlain, and a naval victory there forced a large British ... the war. Canadians remember the war as a victory in avoiding conquest by ...

latter for Turkish involvement in the war. Victory in the Dardenelles helped ... task force, including the British battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth, bombarded ...

Brest in Brittany fired on the British brig HMS Childers.HMS Childers was ... for further combat. Both sides claimed victory; despite losing seven ships ...

or storage depots. Of these, all but HMS Victory were sunk or scrapped by 1957. ... the Chilean Huáscar. Like museum ships, HMS Victory is open to the public ...

wartime leadership greatly aided the Ally's victory. ... Battle of Omdurman on September 2, 1898, a victory made possible by the massive ...

Some Argentinians occupied South Georgia March 19, 1982. Initially ... Margaret Thatcher and ensuring its victory in the 1983 general election ...

and returned to port. Both sides claimed victory. The British had lost more ... other ships were badly damaged, such as HMS Lion and SMS Seydlitz. At ...

the torpedoes, full speed ahead." Victory at Mobile Bay helped to ... captured during the cruise of the Essex by HMS Phoebe in Valparaiso Bay, ...

|result=British Pyrrhic victory |combatant2=[[Image:New England blank ... In the early predawn, around 4 a.m., a sentry on board HMS Lively ...

|result=British razing of Washington, D.C. and British victory ... lost when a convoy of British ships led by HMS Fantome sank en route to Halifax ...

of Detroit in August 1812, a major victory for the British. Tecumseh ... This victory was reversed a little over a year later, however, as ...

were returned to England on the cruiser HMS Orion for final burial at ... *1920 The Long Road to Victory *1921-2 A History of the Great War ...

The sweetness of the victory was short-lived. Despite the War of 1812 ... lost when a convoy of British ships led by HMS Fantome sank en route to Halifax ...

The enormous wealth gained from the Bengal treasury after its victory ... British East India Company. The British victory both eliminated French competition ...

Wilkes, intercepted the British mail packet HMS Trent and removed two Confederate ... Mason and Slidell were released from Fort Warren, where the HMS Rinaldo ...

In 1801, while aboard the 74 gun HMS Ganges, commanded by his personal ... This was a huge victory for Brock for a number of reasons. First, ...

(In his younger days, Sousa made an orchestration of HMS Pinafore and played the first violin on the American tour of Jacques Offenbach.) The music of ...

place in December 1914, with a British victory over the Germans. During ... poor preparations and plans to decommission HMS Endurance, the Navy's ...

He saw action aboard HMS Collingwood in the Battle of Jutland (May 31– June 1, 1916), which ended as a tactical victory for Germany but a strategic ...

He was given command of the frigate HMS Andromeda in 1788, and was ... House of Commons, which yielded a great victory for the reformers. But although ...

by daubing the letter "V" (for Victory) over German signs. A widespread ... The following morning, May 9, 1945, HMS Bulldog arrived in St Peter ...

a tactical raid, the attack was an overall victory, handily achieving some ... the British Force "Z" (battleship HMS “Prince of Wales,” 1939 ...

this tactic often results in a quick victory, troop movements are relatively ... used to relay information by sea. Thus, the HMS Pickle brought Britain the ...

points out, the victory depended as much if not more on the soldiers ... tried to escape to North America but HMS Bellerophon caught up to him ...

seen the expected launch of the first boat, HMS Astute, moved to 2009. ... tried and failed to sink a British warship, HMS Eagle (flagship of the blockaders ...

rowboat, slipping past the British warship HMS Somerset at anchor. Crossings ... infantry were then permitted to fire a victory volley, after which the ...

successes at Louisbourg in June, but that victory had been preceded earlier ... In his final letter, dated HMS Sutherland, 8:30 p.m. September 12 ...

in January 1991, resulting in a decisive victory for the coalition forces ... counteroffensive (Operation Undeniable Victory). In a bid to open the possibility ...

and sometimes by-pass it altogether. The victory, though, of the Allies over ... One U-boat sank the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous, while another ...

intensified after the 1906 launch of the HMS Dreadnought, a revolutionary ... Most of the belligerents envisioned swift victory and glorious consequences ...

Nova Scotia was removed following British victory over France in the Seven ... outside the harbor. Most dramatic was the victory of the Halifax-based British ...

Japanese navy resulting from this allied victory raised questions about the ... Chief Toyoda Soemu prepared four "victory" plans: Shō-Go 1 ...

Declaration of Independence in 1776, and victory on the battlefield in 1781. ... were ruled directly by royal governors. Victory in the Seven Years' ...

In addition, the British warship, the HMS Gloucester arrived in Galway ... conference following an anticipated German victory in the First World War. ...

During 1945, he was assigned to the Indian Fleet and was serving on ... Labour won a landslide victory on July 26, 1945, bringing Clement ...

While the battle on land was a resounding victory for the French, ... Moreau led France to victory at Hohenlinden. As a result, the Treaty ...

But two mistakes destroyed the fruits of the splendid victory. The proletariat stopped half-way: instead of setting about “expropriating the ...

end of the Battle of Trafalgar, the Bermuda sloop HMS Pickle, one of the fastest vessels in the Royal Navy, raced back to England with news of the victory ...

the west coast of North America aboard the HMS Resolution, mapping the coast ... on the American fur trade following his victory over the local Tlingit clan ...

At the end of the war in Europe, on Victory in Europe Day, Elizabeth ... In the wake of coalition victory in the Gulf War, Elizabeth became ...