6 sentences with “equipped”

Daniel Hershey and Bruce Thompson, already equipped with protective clothing, helmets and oxygen masks, went in first.

The Assyrians equipped their large armies with well-made iron weapons (they appear to be the first major kingdom to manufacture iron weapons in large numbers).

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.

Just as it had frustrated Napoleon, the Russian winter played a key role in freezing the German invasion. Mud initially slowed the German advance in autumn, then the winter cold set in. The Germans were not equipped for winter conditions, having come out in their summer uniforms.

Surprisingly, Napoleon managed to raise even more armies, and France continued to fight for two more years. Increasingly, however, the French were losing, the coalition armies now trained and equipped along French lines and anticipating French strategy. In April 1814, as the coalition forces closed in, Napoleon finally abdicated.

Israel consistently sent larger, better trained and better equipped armies into the ensuing war, as the Arab states were also in their infancy, and the Jewish settlers in Palestine had spent years organising their own militias. When the dust settled, there were almost a million Palestinian refugees and a state that promised to be the centre of conflict in the region for decades to come.