6 sentences with 'warships'
Example sentences and phrases with the word warships and other words derived from it.
• « Athens went into a shipbuilding frenzy, ending up with hundreds of warships called triremes, rowed by those free Athenians too poor to afford armour and weapons and serve as hoplites, but who now had the opportunity to help directly in battle as sailors. »
• « Philip spent years building a huge fleet known as the Spanish Armada of 132 warships, equipped not only with cannons but designed to carry thousands of soldiers to invade England. »
• « Germany was forbidden to build heavy military equipment or to have a fleet of more than a handful of warships. Given the social prestige and power associated with the German army before the war, this was a huge blow to German pride. »
• « Montevideo in 1810: this city in the Banda Oriental was of great importance for its port, for having numerous military troops and for serving as a base for warships stationed on the River Plate. »
• « However, the treaty did not address the important issue of taxation, the British navy's practice of forcing or 'impressing' American sailors to work and fight on British warships. »