10 sentences with “navy”

The Phoenicians formed the navy, the Medes the cavalry, the Mesopotamians the infantry, and so on.

All the senior members of the administration, the army, the navy and the Catholic Church were nobles in France.

A new Athenian general, Themistocles, persuaded his countrymen to spend the money from a silver mine they had discovered on a navy.

He joined the navy during World War II, and there he managed to assemble a series of colorful fictional accounts about the exotic people he met in the South Seas.

Xerxes I, the new king, sent a huge army (up to 200,000 troops and 1,200 ships) against Greece, supported by a navy more than twice as large as that of the Athenians.

Subsequently, his daughter Elizabeth I was able to build an effective navy (based at least initially on converted merchant ships) that fought against the Spanish Armada in 1588.

Britain had established naval dominance by 1700, but the French state was richer, its army much larger, and its navy almost that of Britain. The French monarchy was also the established model of absolutism.

The Minoans ruled the island of Crete in the Mediterranean and created a merchant navy (i.e. a fleet whose purpose was primarily trade, not war) to trade with the Egyptians, Hittites and other peoples of the area.

Peter the Great's military reforms were far-reaching - he instituted conscription in 1705 that required every twentieth serf to serve for life in his armies, and oversaw the building of the Russian navy from scratch.

Peter the Great forced the Russian nobility to dress and act more like Western Europeans, sent Russian noble children abroad for education, built a huge navy and army to fight the Swedes and Turks, and (at the cost of semi-slave labour) created the new port city of St Petersburg as the new imperial capital.