8 sentences with 'ports'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ports and other words derived from it.
• « These privateers began a campaign of raids against Spanish possessions in the New World and even Spanish ports, culminating in the sinking of a Spanish fleet anchored at Cadiz in 1587. »
• « By the end of 1807 all continental European nations except Denmark, Sweden and Portugal had closed their ports to British trade. »
• « The African continent was largely impenetrable to Europeans because of its geography: there were few ports for ships, the interior of the continent had no navigable rivers under sail and, most importantly, there were numerous lethal diseases (especially a particularly virulent form of malaria) to which Europeans had little resistance. »
• « In turn, when Europeans began steaming through ports from Hong Kong to the Congo and claiming territories and trading privileges, the term "gunboat diplomacy" was invented, the quintessential example of which was Japan's unwilling concession to Western contact and trade, discussed below. »
• « In the end, the Royal Navy forced the Chinese state to reopen its ports to the Indian opium trade, and the British got Hong Kong in the bargain as part of the British Empire itself. »
• « While Montevideo was besieged from land by General Oribe and from the water by Admiral Brown, an English squadron took the brave admiral's ships by surprise. This began a new conflict with England and France, whose united fleets declared a blockade against Argentine ports in September 1845. »
• « Since the days of the early adventurer Marco Polo, Venetian sailors had travelled to Black Sea ports and established their own colonies along the Mediterranean coast. »
• « Although the Portuguese did not rule an immense land mass, their strategic holdings of islands and coastal ports gave them almost unrivalled control of nautical trade routes and a worldwide empire of trading posts during the 15th century. »