Examples of using French fleet in English and their translations into Russian
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When Germany tried to seize the French fleet at Toulon in November, 1942, the French navy scuttled all its ships.
Unless you think it wise to be trapped between the French fleet and the Continental Army?
In October, Razilly, leading a French fleet of 13 ships with 124 cannons, stationed seaward in the Pertuis Breton, and Jean Guiton managed to force them to disengage in two encounters on 6 October.
The Grand Alliance's control of Gibraltar was challenged on 24 August when a French fleet entered the Straits.
This scare had been too much for the Genoese mercenaries who made up the most experienced part of the French fleet, and they demanded more pay.
He unsuccessfully attacked a French fleet under the Comte d'Estaing at the Battle of Grenada in July 1779.
The cutting out party also burned some 15 merchant vessels loaded with corn and supplies for the French fleet at Brest.
Just bloody their rear enough to slow them, let the French fleet cut them off before New York.
The Italian campaign of 1859 saw the Austrians unable to challenge the French fleet for mastery of the Adriatic.
The Germans had planned Operation Lila to capture intact the demobilised French fleet at Toulon.
warning the English in 1338 of a French fleet gathering in the mouth of the Zwin.
Militarily Napoleon's expedition was a disaster because the English decisively wiped out the French fleet at Aboukir Bay(The Battle of the Nile).
The convoy was composed of transports carrying naval supplies for the West Indies and the French fleet in the East Indies.
On 3 July she was present at the attack on the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir Operation Catapult.
join Horatio Nelson's squadron, watching the French fleet at Toulon.
scattering the Spanish and French fleet allowing Howe to sail unopposed into Gibraltar.
The possibility that the French fleet might come under German control led the British to attack the French Fleet at Mers-el-Kebir on 3 July 1940.
size of the fleet, nearly three times that of the French fleet overall.
De Grasse gave signals for the van to move further ahead so that more of the French fleet might engage,French presented the stern.">