Sentences with 'flotilla'

Example sentences and phrases with the word flotilla and other words derived from it.


« In 1827 a Brazilian flotilla tried to attack Carmen de Patagones, in the south of Buenos Aires, but was totally defeated. »
« The flotilla departed in February 1811 under the command of the Maltese sailor Juan Bautista Azopardo and on arriving off San Nicolás was overtaken by a squadron sent from Montevideo. »
« An infamous incident occurred in late May, when more than 300,000 British and French troops retreating from the Germans were pinned down on the English Channel coast near the French town of Dunkirk. There, a flotilla of navy and fishing vessels managed to evacuate them back to England while the British Royal Air Force held off the opposing German Luftwaffe (air force). »

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