Search for: "Admiral of the British Navy"
Results 1 - 20
of 72
Sorted by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
18 Oct 2018, 1:01 am
After the battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, the Royal Navy, under the command of Vice-Admiral Samuel Graves, was instructed by the British Admiralty to suppress the burgeoning rebellion. [read post]
18 Nov 2012, 12:17 pm
A sufficiently incompetent captain who made it to admiral would end up as an admiral of the yellow, an admiral without a fleet, effectively retired on half pay. [read post]
19 Apr 2008, 2:34 pm
[JURIST] A Chilean court indicted five navy officers and a navy doctor Friday for their role in the kidnapping, torture, and killings of British-Chilean priest Micheal Woodward [profile] and other political dissidents. [read post]
13 Oct 2015, 1:50 am
She was named Andrew Doria after the 15th-century Genoese admiral Andrea Doria. [read post]
10 Jun 2016, 1:01 am
On one level, the book gives you the story of how Admiral Horatio Nelson led the British fleet to victory over Napoleon’s navy and thus ended any threat to England by Napoleon. [read post]
21 Oct 2019, 1:01 am
This meant he had to sink the British navy first. [read post]
17 Mar 2017, 1:01 am
Shulman USN, Israel’s Volunteer Admiral in 2012 [read post]
16 Jul 2013, 2:42 am
George Washington during the Revolutionary War Ellis also attributes much of Washington’s success in saving the army to the disinclination of the British military commanders [the brothers Admiral Sir Richard Howe (navy) and General William Howe (army)] to destroy the Continental army. [read post]
22 Apr 2010, 3:15 pm
Layton, the liaison between the navy’s communications intelligence operation in Hawaii and Admiral Chester W. [read post]
25 Jan 2022, 5:43 am
Admiral Sir George Pocock commanded the Royal Navy fleet of warships, and Lieutenant General Lord Albemarle commanded the British land troops. [read post]
18 Jul 2011, 7:20 am
Grog comes to us from the Royal Navy, introduced by British Vice Admiral Edward Vernon in 1740. [read post]
31 Jan 2014, 7:49 am
As Ritika relayed yesterday, Navy Vice Admiral Michael S. [read post]
23 Mar 2023, 6:11 am
In 1960, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Arleigh Burke initiated secret conversations with the British government about the island. [read post]
3 Dec 2023, 9:30 pm
” The Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy lacks a vast arsenal of military authority but instead possesses only the constrained powers of a general and admiral. [read post]
5 Aug 2023, 4:05 pm
Trade with Germany was blocked by the British navy but trade with Britain increased. [read post]
30 May 2011, 8:04 am
The author has just set up the mismatch between the British Navy – larger than all the other navies in the world combined – and the fledgling American Navy. [read post]
5 Sep 2023, 2:54 pm
” War, but not a war of aggression: While Admiral Doenitz was primarily concerned about charges of war crimes committed in the war at sea, Raeder faced the charge that as commander of the navy he had participated in planning and conducting wars of aggression. [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 12:49 pm
Things are no better at sea where the Royal Navy has a surfeit of 80 admirals, vice-admirals, rear-admirals …considering the navy’s grand total of 88 commissioned ships in service, this top-heavy brass superstructure could lead to an imminent capsize….. [read post]
7 Apr 2020, 3:41 pm
The Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Gilday said that “there were only 16 positive cases in Vietnam” when the Theodore Roosevelt arrived, and Indo-Pacific Command Commander Admiral Philip Davidson made "a very risk-informed decision" to allow the port visit. [read post]
20 Sep 2017, 12:00 pm
Navy admiral said that Iran is smuggling increasingly powerful weapons to Houthi rebel groups in Yemen in violation of international sanctions, the Times reported. [read post]
